1962 – Our Lady’s Bower Boarding School, Athlone, Co. Westmeath

Our Lady’s Bower was established by the sisters of La Sainte Union des Sacre Coeurs in 1884 and operated until June 2014 as a boarding and day school. Boarders were accepted from the age of twelve and the convent had accommodation for 130 girls. The original Gothic revival-style, H-shaped convent and boarding school was extended in the early 1960s to provide improved dormitory and extra-curricular facilities for the boarding students. A large L-shaped block with a hipped roof, with two projecting flat roofed blocks with brick end walls and external concrete and steel circular staircases. The school, now a day school only, operates from a modern building nearby. After sitting empty awaiting a new use for years, it is now Bower Hall Student Campus an accommodation option for students studying in the Technological University of the Shannon.