Irish College, Madrid (El Colegio De San Patricio de los Irlandeses de Madrid) was one of the Irish Colleges founded on continental Europe to train Catholic priests for Ireland during the Penal Laws.
Stapleton was succeeded by Don Dermisio O'Brien, chaplain to Philip IV, who gave to the college his own house in the Calle del Humilladero.
[2] While in exile from Ireland and in 1677 living in Madrid, the Archbishop of Tuam James Lynch tried to develop the college.
The Rector-Administrator, Don Pedro Perlines, left Madrid in 1819, and the college was wound down debts were settled and properties sold.
During the Spanish Civil War a number of the buildings which were part of the Irish college were destroyed.