Clongowes Wood College is a voluntary secondary boarding school for boys, located near Clane in County Kildare, Ireland. Founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1814, it is one of Ireland's oldest Catholic schools, and featured prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. One of five Jesuit schools in Ireland, it had 450 students in 2011/2012 when the fees were €16800 per annum.
The school's current headmaster is Fr Leonard Maloney; Fr Michael Sheil SJ retired as rector in 2006 and Fr Bruce Bradley (headmaster 1992-2000) is his successor, and from September 2011 Fr.Michael Sheil S.J. has returned as Rector and, Fr. Bradley took over as Rector of Sister School Belvedere College, Dublin.
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