In the institution it provided structured educational support for the Deaf community by including vocational training and religious instruction.

Over time, Claremont became an accredited school that gave broad recognition to Deaf culture and their human rights in the country of Ireland.

After devoting his leisure hours, for a few months, to the partial education of the boy at his own house, Dr. Orpen gave a few popular lectures at the Rotunda, in which he brought forward the most striking features in the condition of the Deaf, and the principal facts with respect to the history of their education, as a science recently invented, and the establishment of schools in various countries for their relief.

Collins' progress in written language, in calculation, and in articulate speech, after only a few months' instruction, was so satisfactory that the cause of the Deaf was immediately taken up by the public.

[1] In 1819 the Committee purchased a large demesne called Claremont with a house near the village of Glasnevin, just outside Dublin.