homes historical clane

This is a splendid building incorporating the old castle of the Wogan-Brownes, several of whom were distinguished soldiers in European armies. Clongowes was opened as a boys college by the society of Jesus in 1814. For a time in the 1890's James Joyce was a pupil and re-created his experience of student life there and at Belvedere College in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Some remains of the Pale, the fortification that once marked the boundary of English influence in Ireland,...