Phone +353 45 898 294 | Province Leinster | |
Address R445, Naas West, Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland Similar St Marys College, Clongowes Wood College SJ, Mercy Convent Primary S, Sallins National School, Naas Community National | ||
Gaelcholáiste Chill Dara is an Irish-language post-primary school in Naas, in County Kildare, Ireland. Gaelscoil Chill Dara was founded in 1995. Parents in Gaelscoil Chill Dara wanted to provide post-primary education for their children through Irish. In 2003 the first full class finished in Gaelscoil Chill Dara.
Parents started working on a secondary school while the Gaelscoil was still temporarily housed in Herbert Lodge. The Gaelscoil moved to its present accommodation on the Green Road in June 2002 and with it grew the vision of a Gaelchampus. It was the choice of parents, pupils (270 at the time and increasing), the Irish community, Newbridge Town Council and Irish organisations that Gael-Choláiste would start immediately. As Kildare V.E.C were unable and unwilling to accommodate the wishes of parents the founders investigated alternative patronage and management structures in the pursuit of an all-Irish secondary education for our children and having done so adopted "An Foras Pátrúnachta" as the school's patron, it being the only patron who would guarantee the school's ethos and culture and so it also became part of the JMB structure.
Within a year Gael-Choláiste Chill Dara welcomed its first group of students in September 2003.
GCCD started construction in summer 2013, and as of yet is still under construction.