page_title: St Thomas the Apostle parish, Laurel Lodge
section_title: Amenities
hierarchical_section_title: St Thomas the Apostle parish, Laurel Lodge / Amenities
caption_attribution_description: English: Gate. Granite name stone. "Scoil Thomáis" (School of St. Thomas). Railings. New part of the building, opened in 2009. April 2020 in Dublin COVID-19 lockdown.
context_page_description: St Thomas, the Apostle parish is an ecclesiastical parish in the Blanchardstown deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. It is served by the church of "St Thomas, the Apostle". The parish is centered on "Laurel Lodge" district and the townland of Carpenterstown in the civil parish of Castleknock, Fingal in Ireland. On 6 June 2018, the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, concelebrated mass in the parish church on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the laying of the building's foundation stone.
context_section_description: The "Gallagher Group", owned by Patrick Gallagher built the core estates now known as "Laurel Lodge" in the 1980s. A parcel of land was set aside by Gallagher Group for community use and presented to the Church. A number of buildings for the use of the community was subsequently built on this parcel: the present church building, courtyard and car park; a parochial house; a primary school; a community centre (1995); a credit union; a Montessori crèche (2007); a community garden (2013).
  The nearest secondary school is Castleknock Community College (CCC). While pupils from Scoil Thomáis form the largest block in CCC, the school is just outside the parish proper in the townland of Diswellstown. Other secondary schools in the locality include Castleknock College (a private fee paying school for boys); Mount Sackville (a private fee paying school for girls) and Luttrellstown Community School.
  Castleknock GAA club is centred on the parish although its main grounds are located at Somerton Lane, Diswellstown. The club's most notable member, Ciarán Kilkenny, plays for the Dublin GAA senior football team.
caption: Scoil Thomáis national school
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