Blackrock College - College Buildings

College Buildings

There are sporting and teaching facilities. The campus is 0.25 square kilometres (62 acres) and contains nine rugby pitches, a cricket lawn, an athletics track, an indoor swimming pool, a gym and indoor halls. Apart from classrooms and study halls, there are nine science laboratories, a woodwork room, a multimedia LCVP room and a home economics kitchen. The college also contains a refectory, chapel, lecture halls and stage which hosts student-run dramatic productions. The college is undergoing an extensive modernisation programme.

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