Houses
Kildare has four houses
- Brigid (yellow): Named for Brigid, a fifth century Irish saint, renowned for her hospitality and compassion whose first monastery was established at Kildare.
- Delany (red): Named for the bishop of the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin who founded the Brigidine Sisters in Tullow in 1807.
- Kildare (blue): The diocese in Ireland whose patron saint is St Brigid and in which the Brigidine head house is situated.
- Chanel (white): Sister Chanel Gough was the first Australian Brigidine sister to become Superior General of the Brigidine Sisters, who held this position when Kildare College was established in 1966.
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