Photo: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer of the schools around Belgooly are in DEIS than around Co. Cork’s towns or Irish towns: 0%
That puts Belgooly below both Co. Cork’s towns (37%) and Irish towns (35%). Scoil Mhuire na nGrast is a primary with 363 pupils. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
Counted from the Department of Education’s 2025/26 lists: every school in the town or within 3 km of it, against every school in Ireland.
Where the school in or near Belgooly is
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 Belgooly’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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Belgooly
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 1 schools in and around Belgooly teaches every subject through Irish.
Who runs Belgooly’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
1 of Belgooly’s 1 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Cork & Ross (1). None of the 1 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.
How children get a place in Belgooly
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.
The school in and around Belgooly
Each school in or within 3 km of Belgooly links to a page of its own. No letters and no results: Ireland publishes none school by school.
Inspection reports for Belgooly’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
Each school is visited by inspectors from time to time, for a whole-school evaluation of teaching, learning and leadership, for one subject, or to follow up earlier advice, and every report is posted on gov.ie with the school’s response.
The reports describe what inspectors saw and what the school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the school below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Scoil Mhuire na nGrastPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Belgooly
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Belgooly is Kinsale Community School, a community school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinsale Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,450 | 4.8 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Belgooly
No special school is in or near Belgooly. 1 of the 1 primary schools has 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.
Belgooly beside the 158 other Irish towns of 600 to 1,100 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buttevant | 1,080 | 2 | 802 | 0 | 100% | 0.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Kilsheelan | 837 | 1 | 90 | 0 | 0% | 7.9 km |
| Ballyclerahan | 830 | 1 | 202 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Manorcunningham | 830 | 3 | 251 | 0 | 100% | 6.8 km |
| An Fál Carrach | 829 | 3 | 699 | 2 | 100% | 0.8 km |
| Belgooly | 823 | 1 | 363 | 0 | 0% | 4.9 km |
| Newport | 815 | 2 | 260 | 0 | 100% | 9.7 km |
| Ladysbridge | 809 | 1 | 214 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| Ballon | 801 | 1 | 239 | 0 | 0% | 7.5 km |
| Crinkill | 795 | 7 | 1,708 | 1 | 86% | 3.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Na Dúnaibh | 601 | 2 | 202 | 1 | 100% | 14 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 66 of the other 158 towns than around Belgooly. 15 of the 159 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Belgooly
Pupils every September at the schools in or within 3 km of the town, each counted at today’s site.
The schools in and around Belgooly had 371 pupils in 2015/16 and 363 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Belgooly
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.
Schools in the towns around Belgooly
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgooly | 1 | 363 | 0 | 0% | 4.9 km |
| Kinsale 4.4 km | 5 | 2,264 | 1 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Carrigaline 11 km | 12 | 4,439 | 2 | 8% | 0.5 km |
| Inishannon 12 km | 1 | 295 | 0 | 0% | 5.7 km |
| Lehenagh 14 km | 43 | 14,801 | 4 | 33% | 2.3 km |
| Frankfield and Grange 14 km | 58 | 20,798 | 6 | 24% | 2 km |
| Inishkenny 15 km | 43 | 16,164 | 4 | 35% | 1.4 km |
Frankfield and Grange has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 6. The roll around Belgooly moved −5% since 2019/20; nearby, Kinsale grew most (+16%) and Inishannon least (−5%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Belgooly 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 Belgooly
How many schools are there in Belgooly?
In Belgooly or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school, with 363 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Belgooly that teach through Irish?
None in Belgooly or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Belgooly?
Not in Belgooly or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Kinsale Community School, 4.9 km away.
What is the best school in Belgooly?
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 Belgooly?
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).