placenamesJobstown
Ráth Miontáin
Local school histories trace the rapid growth of Jobstown through the search for classrooms.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Miontáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Jobstown · English · main form
Place & story
Pupils without a building
St Thomas National School began in April 1980, with Seamus Massey as principal. For its first two years, Jobstown pupils used rooms in schools elsewhere: initially Killinarden and Knockmore, then Aylesbury and Castleview. Parents helped supervise the buses that carried children to the temporary classrooms. [2]
A local home for education
The school moved into its own Jobstown building in April 1982. Continued growth required separate junior and senior schools. St Thomas’s Senior School recalls later pressure on space, including using the hall and church as classrooms and adding prefabricated rooms. Jobstown’s Catholic parish was formally constituted from Springfield in March 1983. [2] [3] [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Uppercross
- Civil parish
- Tallaght
- Coordinates
- 53.27355, -6.39588 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 17443 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Jobstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- About Us — Our School History · St Thomas Junior National School
- History of St Thomas’ Senior National School · St Thomas Senior National School
- Jobstown — Parish Information · Archdiocese of Dublin
- Jobstown House on Blessington Road, as photographed in 2017 illustration: based on a Jobstown House, Blessington Road, Jobstown, Tallaght, Dublin by P L Chadwick. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-07-11. How this page was prepared.