It developed into a seminary where students, studied theology and philosophy at Kimmage, while also taking civil degrees in University College Dublin.
From 1924 until 1933, the Holy Ghost Fathers studied theology at Blackrock Castle, before returning to Kimmage Manor.
[3] Kilshane House, County Tipperary, operated as a junior novitiate from 1933 to 1983,[4] with students moving to Kimmage to complete their studies.
During his tenure as superior of the order, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who would later lead a schism from Rome, ordained spiritan priests in Kimmage.
[7] The development studies programme grew out of the fourth-year pastoral theology course at Kimmage, which seminarians took.
[10] The Spiritan Retreat Centre, in Ardbraccan (An Tobar), County Meath now serves as a House of Formation.
[citation needed] Training for Transformation (TfT)[11] which has worked with the Spiritans and with the Development studies centre, is based in Kimmage Manor.