Holy Child Killiney Explained

Holy Child Killiney
Religion:	Roman Catholic
Established:	September 1947
Location:	Killiney, County Dublin
Country:	Ireland
Coordinates:	53.2531°N -6.1142°W
Students:	341
Free Text:	Loreto Sisters
Homepage:	holychildkilliney.ie

Holy Child Killiney is a voluntary fee-paying Catholic secondary school under the direction of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus in Killiney, a suburban village in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.

The school was opened in September 1947, on the premises of the former County Hotel, where it is still located.^[1] It initially had 34 pupils, but by 2019 it had 341 pupils.^[2]

Notable alumni

• Maeve Binchy (1939–2012), novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker^[3]
• Eavan Boland (1944–2020), poet and academic^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: History . Holy Child Killiney . 15 May 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200515203649/http://www.holychildkilliney.ie/page/History/37824/Index.html . 15 May 2020.
2. Web site: Holy Child Secondary School . . 15 May 2020 . https://archive.today/20200515204212/https://www.irishtimes.com/feeder-schools/holy-child-secondary-school/60250M . 15 May 2020 . live .
3. Web site: Read Ireland. Maeve Binchy. 4 August 2012. dead. https://archive.today/20130217192356/http://www.readireland.ie/aotm/Binchy.html. 17 February 2013.
4. News: Eavan Boland obituary: Outstanding Irish poet and academic . 15 May 2020 . 2 May 2020 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20200515213036/https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/eavan-boland-obituary-outstanding-irish-poet-and-academic-1.4242681 . 15 May 2020.