Cluain Draigneach
CLUAIN DRAIGHNEACH, LIOS UI CHATASAIGH, INIS, CO AN CHLAIR · V95 DK15 · Roll number 18540I
Cluain Draigneach is one of 3 primary schools in or within 3 km of Lissycasey. Every school in and around Lissycasey →
What stands out about Cluain Draigneach
- A small primary school: 5 pupils, against a typical 131.
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- The smallest of the 3 primary schools around Lissycasey.
- 3 girls and 2 boys: more of one than the other.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Killaloe; its ethos is Catholic.
- Outside Lissycasey’s outline, 2.4 km away; listed with Lissycasey, the nearest town in its county.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Cluain Draigneach had 5 pupils in 2025/26, down from 20 in 2015/16 (−75%). Girls are 60% of them. Its largest roll was 26, in 2017/18. Its roll rose in 3 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Cluain Draigneach
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 Cluain Draigneach 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 Cluain Draigneach
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 Cluain Draigneach
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Cluain Draigneach 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.
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.
Each of the 6 nearest primary schools has more pupils than Cluain Draigneach.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cluain Draigneach | 5 | – | Catholic | English | ||
| S N Chathair Aodha | 27 | −41% | Catholic | English | 3.9 km | |
| S N Baile na Cailli | 52 | −5% | Catholic | English | 3.9 km | |
| Lissycasey N.S. | 167 | −7% | Catholic | English | 4 km | |
| Kildysart N.S. | 122 | −9% | Catholic | English | 6.2 km | |
| Ballyea Mixed N.S. | 212 | +2% | Catholic | English | 8.2 km | |
| SN na Crannaighe | 32 | – | Catholic | English | 8.4 km |
The other 102 primary schools in Co. Clare
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilmaley N.S. | 88 | −18% | Catholic | English | 9.7 km | |
| Coolmeen N.S. | 20 | – | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| Inch N.S. | 104 | +13% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Connolly N.S. | 27 | −36% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Ennis N.S. | 615 | −4% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Kilmihil N.S. | 96 | +0% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Clarecastle National School | 362 | +0% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 14 km |
| Stonehall N.S. | 101 | −11% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Scoil Mhichil | 66 | +43% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Kilmurry McMahon National School | 63 | −6% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Kilnamona N.S. | 85 | −21% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Holy Family Snr | 306 | −5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| Scoil na Maighdine Mhuire | 238 | −1% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Holy Family Junior School | 167 | +15% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| Chriost Ri | 226 | +0% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| Labasheeda Central N.S. | 30 | −9% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| Shannon Airport No 2 NS | 51 | – | Church of Ireland | English | 16 km | |
| Shannon Airport 1 N.S. | 113 | −17% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 16 km |
| Bunscoil na mBraithre | 643 | −4% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Naomh Tola | 218 | −4% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Gael Sc Mhichil Chiosog | 451 | −4% | Catholic | All in Irish | 17 km | |
| Eidhneach N.S. | 150 | −1% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Gaelscoil Donncha Rua | 68 | +3% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 17 km |
| Ennis Educate Together NS | 144 | +125% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 17 km |
| S.N. Dubh Rath | 113 | +28% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| St Conaires N.S. | 338 | −19% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| St Aidans N.S. | 260 | +3% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Coore National School | 30 | −6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 18 km |
| S.N. Cluain an Atha | 19 | −37% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| Ballycar N.S. | 34 | +13% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| Toonagh N.S. | 75 | −27% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| S.N. Cnoc an Ein | 262 | −8% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| S.N. Cluain Muinge | 205 | +16% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| Scoil na Mainistreach Quin Dangan | 331 | +14% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Burrane N.S. | 17 | −39% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Cooraclare B N.S. | 78 | −20% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| S.N. Cnoc Doire | 17 | −48% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| St. Josephs National School Cree | 38 | – | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Barefield Mixed N.S. | 390 | +1% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Rockmount Mixed N.S. | 23 | −21% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 22 km |
| Mullach N.S. | 53 | +10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 22 km |
| Forgleann N.S. | 7 | −68% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 22 km |
| Annagh N.S. | 81 | −13% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 22 km |
| Sixmilebridge N.S. | 423 | −21% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| Clooney N.S. | 48 | −41% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| S.N. Cill Muire | 65 | −32% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| Miltown Malbay B N.S. | 128 | +20% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| S.N. Colm Cille | 58 | +16% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| S N Iosef Naofa | 29 | −15% | Catholic | All in Irish | 24 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire Naisiunta | 102 | −11% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Ruan Central N.S. | 75 | −29% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Quilty N.S. | 49 | +81% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 24 km |
| Clohanes N.S. | 22 | −24% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Cratloe N.S. | 278 | −2% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Rineen N.S. | 35 | −19% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Scoil an Sraith S.N. | 15 | −25% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 25 km |
| Ennistymon National School | 64 | −11% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 26 km |
| Mol an Óige Community National School | 158 | +46% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 26 km |
| Kilkishen N.S. | 134 | +2% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Saint Marys N.S. Lahinch | 166 | +26% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Kilnaboy N.S. | 80 | −5% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Gaelscoil Ui Choimin | 61 | −5% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 27 km |
| Convent of Mercy National School | 329 | +7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 27 km |
| Inchicronan Central N.S. | 158 | +10% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Doonbeg N.S. | 63 | +13% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| St Mochullas N.S. | 259 | −2% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| S.N. Liosceanuir | 105 | +46% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| S.N. Ma Sheasta | 37 | −30% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| St Fachnan & St Attractas N.S. | 57 | +12% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| S.N. Mhuire Miliuc | 84 | −25% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 30 km |
| S.N. Aibhistin Naofa | 21 | −30% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Bansha N.S. | 7 | −78% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Tubber N.S. | 40 | +67% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| O Callaghans Mills N.S. | 29 | −52% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Broadford & Kilbane National School | 136 | +16% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| S.N. Cronain Nfa an Carn | 15 | – | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| S.N. an Phairtin Mixed | 317 | −3% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| Lisdoonvarna N.S. | 143 | +9% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 35 km |
| Boston N.S. | 24 | −29% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| Doolin Mixed N.S. | 93 | −5% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| Scoil Realt na Mara | 134 | +86% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 36 km |
| Doonaha N.S. | 21 | – | Catholic | English | ✓ | 38 km |
| Scoil Seanain Naofa | 276 | −12% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| S.N. Mhuire | 68 | +11% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Bodyke N.S. | 27 | −13% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Moveen N.S. | 39 | −32% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 39 km |
| Dromindoora N.S. | 23 | −43% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| S.N. Baile an Droichid | 107 | +2% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Carrigaholt Mixed N.S. | 30 | −6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| S.N. Eoin Baiste | 42 | +40% | Catholic | English | 42 km | |
| Flagmount Central N.S. | 35 | +21% | Catholic | English | 42 km | |
| Tomgraney N.S. | 47 | −27% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Raheen Wood Community National School | 102 | +10% | Multi-denominational | English | 44 km | |
| S.N. Padraig Nfa Fanoir | 25 | −14% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Scariff Central N.S. | 142 | +1% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| New Quay N.S. | 31 | +29% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| Killaloe Boys N.S. | 104 | −21% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 46 km |
| Mercy Convent Killaloe | 97 | −16% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 46 km |
| Ogonnelloe National School | 101 | −11% | Catholic | English | 47 km | |
| S.N. Inis Cealtrach | 71 | +8% | Catholic | English | 51 km | |
| S.N. Cuan | 19 | −21% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 53 km |
| Lakyle N.S. | 47 | −41% | Catholic | English | 56 km |
Living in Lissycasey
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the V95 Eircode area
Housing in Lissycasey →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 Co. Clare
Cost of living in Lissycasey →New tenancies in Co. Clare averaged €1,170 a month in 2025, against €1,080 in 2024 (+8%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗near Lissycasey, V95 DK15
Primary schools near Cluain Draigneach
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Cluain Draigneach
Is Cluain Draigneach 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 Cluain Draigneach have?
5 pupils in 2025/26.
Does Cluain Draigneach teach through Irish?
No: Cluain Draigneach teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Cluain Draigneach?
Cluain Draigneach has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Killaloe.
How do pupils get a place at Cluain Draigneach?
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 Cluain Draigneach?
The nearest are S N Chathair Aodha (3.9 km), S N Baile na Cailli (3.9 km) and Lissycasey N.S. (4 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 Lissycasey; 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).