Rockwell College (Irish: Coláiste Charraig an Tobair), founded in 1864, is a voluntary day and boarding Catholic secondary school near Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland.
Rockwell College was founded in 1864 by two Spiritan priests (also known as the Holy Ghost Fathers) to provide education to the sons of Roman Catholics during a time when Penal Laws were still in place against the Catholic majority in Ireland.
[2] Rockwell College played an important role in the development of the Irish State in the several prominent figures of the Irish Revolutionary period taught at or attended the school.
Éamon de Valera taught mathematics there as a young teacher and fellow 1916 Proclamation signatory Thomas MacDonagh attended as a pupil.
In 1964, as part of the centenary celebrations President Éamon de Valera returned to the school, 60 years after he taught there.