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SCOIL MOCHUA CELBRIDGE CO. KILDARE
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    • Tom Sands Remembers
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Saint Mochua

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  • St. Mochua, who founded Clondalkin Abbey, is believed to have brought Christianity to the Celbridge area around the time of St. Patrick. A well at the entrance to the present Community Centre was known as St. Mochua's well and was used to baptise people in early Christian times. This well was cemented over and an inscribed stone tablet was placed on the wall in 1783. 
  • St. Mochua's church and graveyard at Tea Lane are also dedicated to him and this church served Celbridge before St. Patrick's Church or the Mass House were built.



  • The graveyard surrounding the old church was, until the start of the present century, the burial place of almost all the Celbridge families.

  • Scoil Mochua was opened in two prefabricated buildings in 1985 as a Co-Educational Catholic School with an enrolment of 49 junior infants. It was named in honour of St. Mochua because of his links with the community and his great love of animals. 

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    • intel solar for schools
    • Music >
      • School Musical 2023
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      • School Musical 2016
      • 4th Class Charity Video
    • Paul Ryan Cup
    • Archive of School Events
  • History of Celbridge
    • How Celbridge Got Its Name
    • William Conolly
    • Castletown
    • The Mill
    • The Obelisk
    • Celbridge Workhouse
    • Abbey National School
    • Oakley Park
    • Arthur Guinness
    • Celbridge Abbey
    • Lyons Estate
    • Daniel O'Connell
    • Saint Mochua
    • Tom Sands Remembers
    • Interesting Facts