Around the year 1930, there were about 400 residents in Salthill and it was attracting large number of visitors and tourists who came in the summer. There was provision at the time for the building of some 100 homes. The population was growing but there was no church in the area. Any resident or tourist who wished to go to Mass had to travel into the Jesuit Church or St Joseph’s, or out west to the chapel in Barna.
The Board of Management, Scoil Eoin Baiste, has been granted permission by Louth County Council for the change of use of two primary school classrooms for use as ‘Pre-school’ classrooms, at Bellewsbridge Road, Castletown, Dundalk.