Photo: The Banner · CC BY-SA 4.0Pupil numbers around Lissycasey have fallen behind Co. Clare’s towns and Irish towns: −17% since 2019/20
Measured that way, Lissycasey is below both Co. Clare’s towns (+1%) and Irish towns (+4%). Its schools have 199 pupils, 17% fewer than in 2019/20. Nothing here grades or ranks these schools: Ireland publishes no results school by school, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
Every school in the town or within 3 km of its outline, from the Department of Education’s lists for 2025/26; Ireland’s figures are every school in the lists.
What stands out about Lissycasey’s schools
Fewer pupils than before
Pupil numbers at the schools here have fallen since 2019/20, against +5% across Ireland. Pupils over time ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 3 schools in and around Lissycasey are
Each school where the official list places it, shaded by who runs it and sized by pupils; squares are secondary schools, triangles special schools. The dashed shape is Lissycasey’s outline; schools within 3 km of it count.
Places from the Department of Education’s school lists (its own coordinates for all but a handful); map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Pupil numbers around Lissycasey
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Lissycasey had 216 pupils in 2015/16 and 199 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Lissycasey
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year, 2015/16 to 2025/26 (preliminary), for every school placed in the area today; schools that have since closed or merged count where they stood.
Who runs Lissycasey’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
3 of Lissycasey’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Killaloe (3). None of the 3 is in DEIS, the extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas (30% across Ireland).
Department of Education school lists: ethos 2025/26, patron 2024/25 (the 2025/26 lists don’t give it). DEIS list 2025/26.
Teaching through Irish in and around Lissycasey
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 3 schools in and around Lissycasey teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Lissycasey’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Clare’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Lissycasey | Co. Clare | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 42% | 50% | 49% |
Around Lissycasey, 0% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 18% in Co. Clare. The biggest difference from Ireland is in girls: 42% here, 49% there.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lissycasey N.S.Primary | 167 | 42% | ||
| S N Chathair AodhaPrimary | 27 | 41% | ||
| Cluain DraigneachPrimary | 5 | 60% |
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary): enrolments by sex and the DEIS list. Shares are of pupils, not of schools; a county’s are the schools listed with its towns.
One patron for Lissycasey’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
Bishop of Killaloe is patron of every school around Lissycasey.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of KillaloeLissycasey, S N Chathair Aodha, Cluain Draigneach | Catholic | 3 | 199 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Lissycasey
Starting primary school
Children can start primary school once they are four, and must be in school by six. Families apply to each school directly. Every school publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice; a school with more applicants than places admits on the criteria in its policy. Since the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, a Catholic or other majority-faith primary school can’t put baptised children first; a school of a minority faith still can, to keep its ethos.
Moving to secondary school
Children move to post-primary school at about twelve, after sixth class. Again, families apply to each school, usually a year or more ahead, and an oversubscribed school admits on its published criteria, often brothers and sisters and its feeder primary schools.
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; each school’s admission policy and notice are on its own website.
Which schools are growing
0 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 2 have shrunk by as much, out of 2; across Ireland: +5%.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September, 2019/20 and 2025/26 (preliminary). No capacity is published, so how full a school is can’t be shown.
The 3 schools in and around Lissycasey
Here are the schools in Lissycasey or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. Ireland doesn’t publish results for individual schools, so none of these carries a letter.
Inspection reports for Lissycasey’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
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.
The reports describe what inspectors saw and what each school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the 3 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Lissycasey N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S N Chathair AodhaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Cluain DraigneachPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Lissycasey
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Lissycasey is St John Bosco Community College, an ETB school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St John Bosco Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 289 | 9.2 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Lissycasey
No special school is in or near Lissycasey. 1 of the 3 primary schools have special classes for children who need more support. Their cards ↑
Special schools and primary schools with special classes as the Department lists them; the National Council for Special Education places pupils in special classes.
Lissycasey beside the 169 other Irish towns of 300 to 500 people
Towns of a similar size, with the schools in or within 3 km of each; ordered by population, never ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Riverstown | 394 | 4 | 767 | 0 | 0% | 2.5 km |
| Geashill | 392 | 1 | 126 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Carrig on Bannow | 391 | 1 | 144 | 0 | 100% | 12 km |
| Shillelagh | 390 | 2 | 96 | 0 | 0% | 5.5 km |
| Lissycasey | 390 | 3 | 199 | 0 | 0% | 9.2 km |
| Carrigans | 389 | 3 | 245 | 0 | 100% | 13 km |
| Carrowkeel | 389 | 2 | 101 | 0 | 100% | 5.6 km |
| Knockcroghery | 388 | 2 | 257 | 0 | 0% | 9.7 km |
| Timoleague | 387 | 2 | 205 | 0 | 0% | 7.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
Of these 169 other towns, 68 count more pupils at their schools than Lissycasey. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 16 of the 170.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Lissycasey
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lissycasey | 3 | 199 | 0 | 0% | 9.2 km |
| Ennis 14 km | 18 | 7,595 | 1 | 33% | 0.3 km |
| Newmarket-On-Fergus 16 km | 2 | 272 | 0 | 0% | 6.4 km |
| Shannon 18 km | 10 | 2,913 | 1 | 20% | 0.6 km |
Ennis has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. The roll around Lissycasey moved −17% since 2019/20; nearby, Shannon grew most (+7%) and Newmarket-On-Fergus least (+1%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Lissycasey or within 3 km of its outline, as the Department places it: families here use them. Schools further out are on the map of each school’s own page.
- The kinds of school. Primary schools take children from junior infants to sixth class, about ages 4 to 12. Post-primary schools teach the Junior and Leaving Certificate, about ages 12 to 18: voluntary secondary schools (mostly with a religious patron), ETB schools and community colleges run by an Education and Training Board, and community and comprehensive schools. Special schools teach children with particular needs.
- Teaching through Irish. All-Irish: every subject taught through Irish, in the Gaeltacht or, outside it, a Gaelscoil or Gaelcholáiste. Partly in Irish: an Irish stream (some classes entirely through Irish) or some subjects through Irish. Every other school teaches Irish as a subject.
- 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.
- Ethos and patron. Most Irish schools are owned by a patron, mostly a church; the patron sets the school’s ethos. Multi-denominational schools (Educate Together, many ETB schools) teach children of every faith and none together.
- No grade. Section 53 of the Education Act 1998 lets the Minister refuse to release information that would allow schools’ exam results to be compared, and no results are published school by school. So Ireland’s schools have no letters and its towns no School Grade; nothing on this page ranks them.
- What isn’t here. What the UK and French pages show from results, these can’t: results charts, results against pupils’ backgrounds and towns ranked by their schools (no published results), and how full each school is (no capacity is published). Every post-primary school teaches to the Leaving Certificate, so there is no sixth-form split to show.
- Inspections. The Inspectorate’s reports are linked from each school’s page. They give no overall grade, so none is shown.
- The year. The 2025/26 lists are the Department’s preliminary release; numbers can change a little in the final lists.
Questions about schools in Lissycasey
How many schools are there in Lissycasey?
In Lissycasey or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, with 199 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Lissycasey that teach through Irish?
None in Lissycasey or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Lissycasey?
Not in Lissycasey or within 3 km of it; the nearest is St John Bosco Community College, 9.2 km away.
What is the best school in Lissycasey?
We don’t say. Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them; a ranking would rest on guesses. Each school’s page has its own facts and a link to its inspection reports, and visiting the schools you are weighing is still the best guide.
How do I get a place at a school in Lissycasey?
Apply to each school directly: every school publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice with its dates. If it has more applicants than places, it admits on the criteria in its policy.
Sources: Department of Education, school lists 2025/26 (preliminary) and enrolments since 2015/16, CC BY 4.0 · one school placed with OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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).