St Killian's College
| St. Killian's College Coláiste Naomh Cillian |
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Carnlough, County Antrim Antrim, BT44 0JS Northern Ireland |
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| Type | All-ability, co-educational, 11-18 school |
| Motto | Caritas et Veritas (Love and Truth) |
| Head of school | Mr Jonathan Brady |
| Colour(s) | Blue and yellow |
| Website | http://www.stkillianscollege.org.uk |
Coordinates: 55°02′35″N 5°58′05″W / 55.043°N 5.968°W
St Killian's College (Irish: Coláiste Naomh Cillian, colloquially known as Garron Tower) is an all-ability co-educational school that was formed by the amalgamation of three schools in the Larne and Ballymena area: St MacNissi's College, Garron Tower, St Comgall's College, Larne, and St Aloysius High School, Cushendall.
St Killian's is currently operating from the former St MacNissi's College site at Garron Tower.
The college has extensive grounds which stretch for a mile or so around the main building. This building contains the priests' dining-room, priests' sitting-room, 100 desk study-hall, kitchens, cloakrooms, first-aid room, classrooms, offices, and a food-storage area.
The chapel was completed in 1955 with the help of the late Fr Charles Agnew's "Mile of Half-Crowns". On the canopy above the High Altar are the words "Laudate Pueri Dominum" which translates as "Boys, Praise the Lord".
On one of the stained-glass windows that were installed in late 1956, the following words, in very small print, are to be found: "As I am making this window the Hungarians have risen in revolt against Communist/Russian rule in Hungary. October 1956."
A 150-room boarding department (now empty) was opened in 1956. Called St Mary's Residence, single rooms made up the majority of this building but at the front ends, there were double rooms, six in total, two on each floor, which were occupied by six of the college priests.
Original stables were the open dormitories of Ardclinis, Trostan and Knochore. On the level above the Ardclinis Dormitory were the rooms of three priests. These old stables now house Music, Languages and Business Studies classrooms. The building is known as St Joseph's.
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