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Roundtown Boys' National School was founded on November 5th. 1866 to meet the demands for education from the local people of Terenure. On its opening the school had 174 boys with 3 teachers.

Class of 1932

St. Joseph's Class circa 1952 (Courtesy Gerry Duffy)

Winners of the 1958 Fianna Fáil Cup with Mr. Batt Garvey (Courtesy of Rory O'Connor)

Confirmation Class of 1962 (Courtesy of John Murphy)

St Joseph ’s Terenure Confirmation 1962

Back Row: John Murphy (Sean Dubh), Brian Allsopp, Raymond Kinanne, Con Ryan, Ciarán O’Connell, Noel Long,  ?   John Doyle, Martin McGovern,  ?  John (Johnie)Byrne, Ronnie Hayden, Batt Garvey.
Row 4 ?  , Tony Curran, Noel Butler , Derek Fox,  ?  , Joseph O’Callaghan, Jim Kelly  ?  ,   ?  , Vincent Dwyer, John Quilty, John Conway, Shamus Scanlon
Row 3 John Murphy (Sean Bán),Paddy Fenner, Donal Kelly, Liam Murphy, Maurice Murphy, Michael O’ Houlahan,   ?  ,   ?  , Martin Mc’Donnell, Dan O’Connor.
Row 2 Eugine Greahan, Tony Muldoon, Terry Kavanagh, Eamon O Dowd,   ?  , George O’Toole, Michael O’Toole, Niall Gunning, Myles Read, Barry Harrington,  ?  , John Ryan, Seamus O’Connell.
Front Row Derek Morrin, Martin McNamara, Bearnard Kennedy, Pierce Murray, Cahal Goulding,   ?  , Tony O'Sullivan,   ?  , Owen McGinn, John Brady.

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Alderman Bernard Butler Lord Mayor of Dublin

He was the Principal Teacher in St. Joseph's BNS for 30 years. His wife Annie was Vice-Principal of the school.

He was a member of Dáil Éireann from 1943 until his death.

He was Lord Mayor of Dublin 1953/ 1954.

Mr. Michael Collins, former Lord Mayor of Dublin is another past pupil of St. Joseph's

The name of the school changed in 1918. It acquired the Roman Catholic denominational ethos which still prevails today. The school was rebuilt in 1972 - '73.
St. Joseph's today has 560 pupils and 24 teachers. We have two of each class from Junior Infants to 6th. class.

The principal of the school is Mr. Matt Hume.