Mary Kenny
Glenstal Abbey School, a seven-day boarding school for boys, part of a Benedictine monastic community, in Murroe, Co Limerick, to close within two years. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / James Anthony O’Hare. There’s one form of education that is in decline in both Ireland and Britain: boarding school. Only 25 schools in Ireland are now of the boarding variety: in the 1960s there were around 125. The announced closure of Glenstal Abbey as a boarding school is perhaps a symbolic moment. In Britain, boarding schools have declined…
