Oatlands College
Secondary school located in Mount Merrion, Ireland
Oatlands College (Irish: Coláiste Fhearann an Choirce) is a voluntary Christian Brothers secondary school for boys aged 12–18, located in Mount Merrion, County Dublin in Ireland. It prepares students for Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate examinations.
Development
The Christian Brothers first established a community in 1951, before opening the school in 1955. It is now under the Trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust. The school added a single storey extension in 1969 and later added a sports hall in 1980. After some modernisation in 1995, the school opened a new wing in 1999. In the summer of 2010, a new technology room, drawing room, music room, a second computer room, two new class rooms and two new science laboratories were added to the building. On 10 May 2012, a new sports hall with a canteen and a new classroom was opened by the President of Ireland at that time, Michael D. Higgins.
Extra-curricular activities
Sport
Sports undertaken at Oatlands include GAA, soccer, basketball, badminton, tennis, table tennis, cricket and athletics. The school has also a successful golf team who became the South Dublin champions in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
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