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Douglas Road, Cork · T12 HN93 · Roll number 62691G
Regina Mundi College is one of 22 post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Ballinlough. Every school in and around Ballinlough →
What stands out about Regina Mundi College
- 564 pupils, near the middle for post-primary schools in Ireland (the median is 585).
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (−0%).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- A girls’ school.
- A voluntary secondary school: owned by its trustees, most often a religious order or its successor trust, and paid for by the State.
- Its patron is Regina Mundi (Cork) Ltd; its ethos is Catholic.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Regina Mundi College had 564 pupils in 2025/26, against 541 in 2015/16 (+4%). Its largest roll was 570, in 2021/22. Its roll rose in 6 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Regina Mundi College
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 Regina Mundi College 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 Regina Mundi College
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 Regina Mundi College
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Regina Mundi College directly, usually in the year before their child finishes sixth class; 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 takes girls only.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Regina Mundi College is about the size it was in 2019/20 (−0%). All the schools around Ballinlough together changed by +2%.
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 post-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 post-primary schools, 3 have more pupils than Regina Mundi College. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −0%; 3 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regina Mundi College | 564 | −0% | Catholic | English | ||
| Douglas Community School | 605 | +19% | Inter-denominational | English | 0.5 km | |
| Ashton School | 539 | +2% | Church of Ireland | English | 1.2 km | |
| Christ King Girls' Secondary School | 700 | −10% | Catholic | English | 1.3 km | |
| Coláiste Chríost Rí | 502 | −13% | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | 1.6 km | |
| Coláiste Daibhéid | 151 | −28% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | ✓ | 2 km |
| Coláiste Éamann Rís | 811 | +149% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.2 km |
The other 78 post-primary schools in Co. Cork
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ursuline College Blackrock | 352 | +45% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.4 km |
| Presentation Secondary School | 190 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.4 km |
| Cork Educate Together Secondary School | 403 | +54% | Multi-denominational | English | 2.6 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 432 | +2% | Catholic | English | 2.7 km | |
| Christian Brothers College | 919 | +1% | Catholic | English | 2.8 km | |
| St. Angela's College | 606 | +4% | Catholic | English | 2.9 km | |
| St Patricks College | 218 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.9 km |
| Nagle Community College | 315 | +61% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 2.9 km |
| St Aloysius School | 323 | +5% | Catholic | English | 3 km | |
| Presentation Brothers College | 692 | −3% | Catholic | English | 3.3 km | |
| Mayfield Community School | 362 | +28% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 3.3 km |
| St Vincent's Secondary School | 283 | +39% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.5 km |
| North Monastery Secondary School | 271 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.7 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Mhuire | 690 | +20% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 3.8 km |
| Nano Nagle College | 161 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.3 km |
| St Aidan's Community College | 309 | −23% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 4.4 km |
| Terence Mac Swiney Community College | 302 | +81% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 4.7 km |
| St Francis Capuchin College | 730 | −5% | Catholic | English | 4.9 km | |
| Colaiste An Phiarsaigh | 578 | +6% | Catholic | All in Irish | 5 km | |
| Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh | 715 | +1% | Catholic | English | 5.1 km | |
| Mount Mercy College | 811 | +2% | Catholic | English | 5.1 km | |
| Bishopstown Community School | 306 | +0% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 5.6 km |
| Glanmire Community College | 1,141 | +3% | Inter-denominational | English | 6.7 km | |
| Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin | 302 | +156% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 7 km | |
| St Peter's Community School | 354 | −3% | Inter-denominational | English | 7.4 km | |
| Carrigaline Community School | 1,072 | −2% | Inter-denominational | English | 8.3 km | |
| Edmund Rice College | 580 | +73% | Catholic | English | 9.3 km | |
| Coláiste Choilm | 1,357 | −0% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 9.4 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire gan Smal | 1,124 | +40% | Catholic | English | 9.7 km | |
| Coláiste Muire | 709 | +6% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Ballincollig Community School | 987 | +20% | Inter-denominational | English | 11 km | |
| Le Cheile Secondary School Ballincollig | 254 | – | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Carrignafoy Community College | 322 | +0% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 11 km |
| Coláiste an Chroí Naofa | 461 | −15% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Carrigtwohill Post Primary | 912 | +237% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| St Aloysius College | 765 | −1% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Colaiste Muire | 523 | +16% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 957 | +13% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| St Mary's High School | 762 | +6% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| Midleton College | 498 | +15% | Church of Ireland | English | 19 km | |
| St Colman's Community College | 1,171 | +51% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 19 km |
| Kinsale Community School | 1,450 | +31% | Inter-denominational | English | 21 km | |
| Coachford College | 848 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 24 km | |
| St. Brogan's College | 905 | +50% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 25 km |
| Coláiste na Toirbhirte | 456 | −8% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh | 399 | +1% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| Bandon Grammar School | 712 | +5% | Church of Ireland | English | 27 km | |
| Coláiste an Chraoibhín | 918 | +6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 30 km |
| Davis College | 1,033 | +26% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 30 km |
| Loreto Secondary School | 729 | +18% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Coláiste Cholmáin | 716 | +39% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Patrician Academy | 568 | +1% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| St Mary's Secondary School | 749 | +6% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| St Mary'S Secondary School | 431 | +33% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| McEgan College | 289 | +60% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 36 km |
| De La Salle College | 409 | +11% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Nagle Rice Secondary School | 260 | +39% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Pobalscoil na Tríonóide | 1,086 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 40 km | |
| Sacred Heart Secondary School | 568 | +7% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Clonakilty Community College | 696 | +17% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 42 km | |
| Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire | 589 | +34% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 410 | +27% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Coláiste Fionnchua | 449 | +63% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 44 km |
| Presentation Secondary School | 342 | +9% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Coláiste Treasa | 647 | +18% | Multi-denominational | English | 45 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 271 | −7% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| Millstreet Community School | 359 | +9% | Inter-denominational | English | 47 km | |
| Colaiste Ghobnatan | 212 | −8% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 49 km | |
| Maria Immaculata Community College | 642 | +28% | Inter-denominational | English | 50 km | |
| Mount St Michael | 403 | +30% | Catholic | English | 52 km | |
| Boherbue Comprehensive School | 551 | +70% | Inter-denominational | English | 52 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 109 | +11% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 54 km | |
| Scoil na mBráithre Chríostaí | 313 | +11% | Catholic | English | 55 km | |
| St. Mary's Secondary School | 322 | +10% | Catholic | English | 55 km | |
| Skibbereen Community School | 956 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 67 km | |
| Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí | 752 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | 73 km | |
| Schull Community College | 359 | −7% | Inter-denominational | English | 86 km | |
| Beara Community School | 308 | −6% | Inter-denominational | English | 104 km |
Living in Ballinlough
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Homes in the T12 Eircode area
Housing in Ballinlough →The median sale price rose from €355,000 in 2023 to €412,200 in 2025 (+16%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the T12 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Ballinlough
Cost of living in Ballinlough →New tenancies in Ballinlough averaged €1,701 a month in 2025, against €1,559 in 2024 (+9%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
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Ballinlough, T12 HN93
Post-primary schools near Regina Mundi College
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Regina Mundi College
Is Regina Mundi College 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 Regina Mundi College have?
564 pupils in 2025/26. That is −0% since 2019/20.
Does Regina Mundi College teach through Irish?
No: Regina Mundi College teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Regina Mundi College?
Regina Mundi College has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Regina Mundi (Cork) Ltd.
How do pupils get a place at Regina Mundi College?
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 Regina Mundi College?
The nearest are Douglas Community School (0.5 km), Ashton School (1.2 km) and Christ King Girls' Secondary School (1.3 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 Ballinlough; 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).