Holy Family Snr
Station Road, Ennis, Co. Clare · V95 TF67 · Roll number 07315N
Holy Family Snr is one of 12 primary schools in or within 3 km of Ennis. Every school in and around Ennis →
What stands out about Holy Family Snr
- One of the larger primary schools: 306 pupils, against a typical 131.
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (−5%).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- In DEIS. DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) gives schools serving disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and support; the Department decides which schools are in it.
- Has special classes for children who need more support.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Killaloe; its ethos is Catholic.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Holy Family Snr had 306 pupils in 2025/26, down from 342 in 2015/16 (−11%). Girls are 49% of them. Its largest roll was 343, in 2016/17. Its roll rose in 5 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Holy Family Snr
Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing schools by them, so this school has no letter and nothing here ranks it. Its facts are the Department of Education’s; its inspection reports are linked below.
What the Department of Education does publish for Holy Family Snr is on this page: its pupils each September since 2015/16, girls and boys, its patron and ethos, whether it teaches through Irish, whether it is in DEIS, and its inspection reports.
Newspapers print lists of how many of a school’s leavers go on to college. Those count destinations, not exam results, and depend on who a school takes in; we don’t use them.
Inspection reports on Holy Family Snr
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate visits schools and publishes its reports. The reports describe what inspectors saw; they give no overall grade, and we don’t make one. Reports for this school on gov.ie ↗
Inspectors visit every kind of school. Whole-school evaluations look at teaching and learning, leadership and management; subject inspections look at one subject; follow-through inspections check whether earlier advice was taken. Each report is published on gov.ie with the school’s response.
Getting a place at Holy Family Snr
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Holy Family Snr directly. Children can start once they are four and must be in school by six; the school’s yearly admission notice gives the dates for applying and for its decisions.
A school with more applicants than places admits on the criteria in its admission policy, often brothers and sisters, the area it serves and, for post-primary schools, its feeder primaries. A family refused a place can appeal.
It is in DEIS, so it has extra support for pupils from disadvantaged areas. Places in special classes and special schools are allocated with the National Council for Special Education.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Holy Family Snr has shrunk by 5% since 2019/20. All the schools around Ennis together changed by +1%.
Pupils since 2019/20
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; Department of Education enrolments 2019/20 and 2025/26 (preliminary).
Side by side with the nearest primary schools
2025/26The nearest schools of the same kind, as the crow flies: their pupils, ethos and language. No results: none are published.
Of the 6 nearest primary schools, 3 have more pupils than Holy Family Snr. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −5%; 6 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Family Snr | 306 | −5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | |
| Holy Family Junior School | 167 | +15% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 0.1 km |
| Bunscoil na mBraithre | 643 | −4% | Catholic | English | 0.8 km | |
| Chriost Ri | 226 | +0% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 0.9 km |
| Gael Sc Mhichil Chiosog | 451 | −4% | Catholic | All in Irish | 1.6 km | |
| Ennis Educate Together NS | 144 | +125% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 1.9 km |
| Ennis N.S. | 615 | −4% | Catholic | English | 1.9 km |
The other 102 primary schools in Co. Clare
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarecastle National School | 362 | +0% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.9 km |
| S.N. Cnoc an Ein | 262 | −8% | Catholic | English | 3.8 km | |
| S.N. Dubh Rath | 113 | +28% | Catholic | English | 5.2 km | |
| Inch N.S. | 104 | +13% | Catholic | English | 5.6 km | |
| Barefield Mixed N.S. | 390 | +1% | Catholic | English | 6 km | |
| Toonagh N.S. | 75 | −27% | Catholic | English | 6.5 km | |
| Kilnamona N.S. | 85 | −21% | Catholic | English | 7.1 km | |
| Ballyea Mixed N.S. | 212 | +2% | Catholic | English | 7.2 km | |
| Scoil na Mainistreach Quin Dangan | 331 | +14% | Catholic | English | 8.6 km | |
| Clooney N.S. | 48 | −41% | Catholic | English | 8.7 km | |
| Kilmaley N.S. | 88 | −18% | Catholic | English | 9 km | |
| Ruan Central N.S. | 75 | −29% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| Scoil na Maighdine Mhuire | 238 | −1% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| S N Chathair Aodha | 27 | −41% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Ballycar N.S. | 34 | +13% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Inchicronan Central N.S. | 158 | +10% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire Naisiunta | 102 | −11% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Connolly N.S. | 27 | −36% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Eidhneach N.S. | 150 | −1% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Stonehall N.S. | 101 | −11% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| S N Baile na Cailli | 52 | −5% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| St Mochullas N.S. | 259 | −2% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| S.N. Cill Muire | 65 | −32% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Cluain Draigneach | 5 | – | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Kilnaboy N.S. | 80 | −5% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| St Aidans N.S. | 260 | +3% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Kilkishen N.S. | 134 | +2% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Naomh Tola | 218 | −4% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Gaelscoil Donncha Rua | 68 | +3% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 17 km |
| Shannon Airport No 2 NS | 51 | – | Church of Ireland | English | 17 km | |
| St Conaires N.S. | 338 | −19% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Shannon Airport 1 N.S. | 113 | −17% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 17 km |
| S.N. Cluain Muinge | 205 | +16% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Sixmilebridge N.S. | 423 | −21% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Lissycasey N.S. | 167 | −7% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Tubber N.S. | 40 | +67% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| S.N. Colm Cille | 58 | +16% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| S.N. Cluain an Atha | 19 | −37% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Kildysart N.S. | 122 | −9% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| O Callaghans Mills N.S. | 29 | −52% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Forgleann N.S. | 7 | −68% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 21 km |
| Boston N.S. | 24 | −29% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Cratloe N.S. | 278 | −2% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| S.N. Cronain Nfa an Carn | 15 | – | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| St Fachnan & St Attractas N.S. | 57 | +12% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| SN na Crannaighe | 32 | – | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| Mol an Óige Community National School | 158 | +46% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 24 km |
| Broadford & Kilbane National School | 136 | +16% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Ennistymon National School | 64 | −11% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 24 km |
| S.N. Mhuire | 68 | +11% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| S N Iosef Naofa | 29 | −15% | Catholic | All in Irish | 24 km | |
| Dromindoora N.S. | 23 | −43% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Rockmount Mixed N.S. | 23 | −21% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 25 km |
| Coore National School | 30 | −6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 25 km |
| Coolmeen N.S. | 20 | – | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| Scoil Mhichil | 66 | +43% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| Bodyke N.S. | 27 | −13% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| S.N. Mhuire Miliuc | 84 | −25% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 26 km |
| Saint Marys N.S. Lahinch | 166 | +26% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| Kilmihil N.S. | 96 | +0% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| S.N. Aibhistin Naofa | 21 | −30% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Flagmount Central N.S. | 35 | +21% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Rineen N.S. | 35 | −19% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Miltown Malbay B N.S. | 128 | +20% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Annagh N.S. | 81 | −13% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 29 km |
| Lisdoonvarna N.S. | 143 | +9% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 29 km |
| S.N. an Phairtin Mixed | 317 | −3% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| S.N. Liosceanuir | 105 | +46% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Kilmurry McMahon National School | 63 | −6% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Mullach N.S. | 53 | +10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 30 km |
| Tomgraney N.S. | 47 | −27% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Labasheeda Central N.S. | 30 | −9% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 31 km |
| Scariff Central N.S. | 142 | +1% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| Raheen Wood Community National School | 102 | +10% | Multi-denominational | English | 31 km | |
| Scoil Seanain Naofa | 276 | −12% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| S.N. Baile an Droichid | 107 | +2% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Quilty N.S. | 49 | +81% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 32 km |
| St. Josephs National School Cree | 38 | – | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Doolin Mixed N.S. | 93 | −5% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| S.N. Eoin Baiste | 42 | +40% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Cooraclare B N.S. | 78 | −20% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Clohanes N.S. | 22 | −24% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| New Quay N.S. | 31 | +29% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| S.N. Cnoc Doire | 17 | −48% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| Burrane N.S. | 17 | −39% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| Ogonnelloe National School | 101 | −11% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| Killaloe Boys N.S. | 104 | −21% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 36 km |
| Mercy Convent Killaloe | 97 | −16% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 37 km |
| S.N. Padraig Nfa Fanoir | 25 | −14% | Catholic | English | 37 km | |
| S.N. Inis Cealtrach | 71 | +8% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Scoil an Sraith S.N. | 15 | −25% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 38 km |
| Doonbeg N.S. | 63 | +13% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Gaelscoil Ui Choimin | 61 | −5% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 41 km |
| Convent of Mercy National School | 329 | +7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 41 km |
| S.N. Ma Sheasta | 37 | −30% | Catholic | English | 42 km | |
| Lakyle N.S. | 47 | −41% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Bansha N.S. | 7 | −78% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Scoil Realt na Mara | 134 | +86% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 48 km |
| Doonaha N.S. | 21 | – | Catholic | English | ✓ | 51 km |
| Moveen N.S. | 39 | −32% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| Carrigaholt Mixed N.S. | 30 | −6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 56 km |
| S.N. Cuan | 19 | −21% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 67 km |
Living in Ennis
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the V95 Eircode area
Housing in Ennis →The median sale price rose from €251,500 in 2023 to €320,000 in 2025 (+27%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the V95 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Ennis
Cost of living in Ennis →New tenancies in Ennis averaged €1,157 a month in 2025, against €1,095 in 2024 (+6%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗Ennis, V95 TF67
Primary schools near Holy Family Snr
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Holy Family Snr
Is Holy Family Snr a good school?
We don’t grade it: Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them. Its inspection reports on gov.ie, a visit and a talk with the principal will tell you more than any table could.
How many pupils does Holy Family Snr have?
306 pupils in 2025/26. That is −5% since 2019/20.
Does Holy Family Snr teach through Irish?
No: Holy Family Snr teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Holy Family Snr?
Holy Family Snr has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Killaloe.
How do pupils get a place at Holy Family Snr?
Apply to the school directly. It publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice with its dates; if more children apply than it has places, it admits on the criteria in its policy.
Which schools of the same kind are near Holy Family Snr?
The nearest are Holy Family Junior School (0.1 km), Bunscoil na mBraithre (0.8 km) and Chriost Ri (0.9 km).
Sources: Department of Education, school lists 2025/26 (preliminary) and enrolments since 2015/16, CC BY 4.0 · inspection reports on gov.ie, linked by roll number. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Facts from the Department of Education’s school lists. Listed with Ennis; nothing here rates the school.
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).