In the late 50’s and early 60’s Walkinstown was an growing suburb of Dublin and was in need of a Secondary School. When the school opened, in 1962 there were only 94 students and 9 teachers. Over the years the school community and the building have increased in size. The original building was designed by the architects Jones and Kelly, 6 Waterloo Road, Dublin 4 in the early 6o’s. In 1971 the school hall/gym was designed by Louis Breannan and Associates of Adelaide, road Dublin 2 and in the early 70’s Breannan and Associates were also involved in the first extension of the school. It consisted of a two-storey extension. This extension contained the building of a library, a new science laboratory, a home economics room and a multipurpose room. At the time Fr Dennis Horgan was the Parish priest and he blessed the school (Primary Source, Sister Mary).
Between the 1970’s and early 1990’s there was a great economically and physical transformation in Walkinstown. In the space of 20 years the area had transformed for a quite farming region of Dublin to a developed suburb of the city, there is evidence of this development in the area for example as was stated earlier in this blog there was a Pig farm Directly across from the school up until the mid-80’s. With this in mind it was essential for the school to expand and cope with the influx of people in the surrounding area. Following a strong lobbying campaign, Our Lady of the Assumption School received a grant to build new classrooms. At on the 3rd of May 1993, construction began on the second extension of the school. The pre-fab buildings were demolished and in their place six new classrooms including an art room and a block of toilets were built. This time Moloney, O’Beirne and Partners were the architects and the also supervised some upgrading work in 2001 after a fire damaged parts of the school (Primary source, Hoey).
From: https://mrwhyteblog.wordpress.com/about-the-school/
We are currently working on researching newspapers, archives and other sources to add more details about this building, the people that occupiped it. If you would like to help with the research or have any details that would help, please email
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