placenamesMilltown
Baile an Mhuilinn
Presentation education developed through separate schools, an amalgamation and successive building projects.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Mhuilinn · Irish · main form
- Milltown · English · main form
Place & story
Separate beginnings and a merger
CEIST’s institutional history dates the Presentation Sisters’ secondary school to September 1957 and the Brothers’ to September 1958. The schools affiliated in 1968 and amalgamated in September 1974. A school building opened in April 1981, followed the next year by science and home-economics rooms. These successive dates describe the development of secondary provision, rather than the first arrival of either religious community in Milltown. [2]
The school opened in 2016
A further building was formally opened by Bishop Ray Browne on 17 May 2016. The Presentation Sisters had purchased its site in 2010; the ceremonial start of construction followed in May 2014. Laboratories, a library, practical classrooms and a sports hall with a fitness suite formed part of the completed facilities. CEIST’s opening report credits former principal Cormac Bonner’s sustained work in bringing the project forward. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Milltown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Presentation Secondary School, Milltown: institutional history · CEIST
- Opening of New School Building for Presentation Secondary School, Miltown, 19 May 2016 · CEIST
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-10-27. How this page was prepared.