placenamesTaylor's Hill
An Bóthar Ard
A convent parlour became the starting point for a lasting educational presence on Taylor’s Hill.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Bóthar Ard · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Taylor's Hill · English · main form
Place & story
From Seaview to classrooms
The Dominican community moved from central Galway to Seaview, a small house on Taylor’s Hill, on 4 June 1845. Its institutional history records the opening of a day school in 1858, with lessons held in the convent parlour, followed by the Mount St Joseph’s boarding school in 1859. [2]
Growing enrolments brought successive additions. St Dominic’s opened in 1901 and served as the boarding school until 1975. Rosary School was completed in 1958. A new school building followed in 2007, continuing the educational use of the Taylor’s Hill site. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Taylor's Hill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- History — Dominican College, Taylor’s Hill · Dominican College, Taylor’s Hill
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.