Artane Industrial School

The school was set up in Artane House and buildings were constructed to designs by Charles Geoghan from 1871 to 1879 at a cost of £20,000.

Courts sent boys to Artane for reasons of inadequate parental care, destitution, neglect, truancy or the commission of minor offences.

The Brothers had originally planned to close St. Joseph's on 31 August 1968, but action was deferred twice in order to give the Department of Education time to arrange alternative accommodation for the boys.

The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse found that Artane was under-staffed by a small number of largely inexperienced and untrained Brothers.

[8] Mealtimes were poorly supervised, leading to smaller pupils being bullied and the facilities for serving food were primitive.

[9] Clothing was poor quality, institutional and patched, despite criticism by the Departmental Inspector and there being a surplus in school accounts.