- Number of Pupils: 435Clongowes Wood College is one of Ireland’s leading boarding schools, located in the heart of Co. Kildare – just 35 minutes from the centre of Dublin. A Jesuit school founded in 1814, Clongowes is located in beautiful surroundings on a 550 acre campus just twenty-one miles from Dublin and draws its 450 pupils from all over Ireland, the UK and Read more…