St Patrick's College (Irish: Coláiste Phadraig Naofa), known as Tuam Christian Brothers School until 1990, was a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland.
The brothers were then recalled to Dublin, and on the following night the premises was broken into, set alight, and burned to the ground.
The people found themselves deprived of an education for their children, St Jarlath's being exclusively for boarders at that time.
The building housed both the primary and secondary schools for many years, as well as the Brothers' monastery.
Well-known for its local rivalry with St Jarlath's College, CBS made history when they defeated their long time enemies in the Connacht Colleges Senior Football Championship final on 16 March 1980.
This fundraiser was a game consisting of thirty minutes of soccer and thirty minutes of Gaelic football played between the Galway football team of the time, which would later reach the All-Ireland final that year but lose to Dublin, and a variety of distinguished soccer players including Eamonn Dunphy, Johnny Giles, Paddy Mulligan, Eoin Hand and Gerry Daly among others.