Photo: The Speckled Bird · CC BY-SA 4.0The schools around Buttevant have grown: pupils +25% since 2019/20, more than around Co. Cork’s towns or Irish towns
In the comparison, Buttevant comes above both Co. Cork’s towns (+1%) and Irish towns (+4%). Pupils: 802, up 25% since 2019/20. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results 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 Buttevant’s schools
Extra support for many schools
Many schools here are in DEIS, which gives schools in disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and help; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. In DEIS: Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire (589) and Scoil Mhuire na Trocaire (213). Who runs them ↓
More pupils every year
Pupil numbers at the schools here have grown faster than across Ireland (+5% since 2019/20), so classes and new places are a question worth asking. Pupils over time ↓
One school growing fast
Of the schools here, Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire has grown fastest, from 440 in 2019/20 to 589. Getting a place ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Who runs Buttevant’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
1 of Buttevant’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Cork ETB (1) and Bishop of Cloyne (1). 2 of the 2 are 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.
Pupil numbers around Buttevant
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 Buttevant had 485 pupils in 2015/16 and 802 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Buttevant
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.
The 2 schools in and around Buttevant
Every school in Buttevant or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. You won’t find letters or results below: Ireland publishes none for single schools.
Where the 2 schools in and around Buttevant 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 Buttevant’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 Buttevant
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Buttevant teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Buttevant’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against Co. Cork’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
DEIS by stage: pupils at DEIS schools
| Share of pupils | Around Buttevant | Co. Cork | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 100% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 8% | 6% |
| Girls | 49% | 49% | 49% |
More of the pupils around Buttevant are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 100% against 27% (Co. Cork: 18%). Furthest from Ireland’s mix is the share of pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here against 6%. The biggest school in DEIS is Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire (589 pupils).
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colaiste Pobail Naomh MhuirePost-primary · ETB | 589 | 51% | ✓ | |
| Scoil Mhuire na TrocairePrimary | 213 | 44% | ✓ |
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.
How children get a place in Buttevant
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
Between 2019/20 and now, 2 of the 2 grew by 5% or more and 0 shrank as much, while Ireland’s pupil numbers moved +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.
Inspection reports for Buttevant’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
Reports come from whole-school evaluations (teaching, learning, leadership and management), subject inspections and follow-through visits that check earlier advice; gov.ie publishes each one with the school’s response.
Reports say what inspectors found and what should improve, without an overall grade, so none appears here; each of the 2 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Colaiste Pobail Naomh MhuirePost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil Mhuire na TrocairePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Buttevant
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Families in Buttevant have 2 post-primary schools within 10 km: one ETB school and one voluntary secondary school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colaiste Pobail Naomh MhuireETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 589 | 0.6 km |
| Nagle Rice Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 260 | 6.3 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Buttevant
No special school is in or near Buttevant. 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.
Buttevant beside the 131 other Irish towns of 800 to 1,500 people
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km, listed by population: Ireland publishes no results, so none is ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochfortbridge | 1,498 | 2 | 1,343 | 0 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Milltown | 1,118 | 4 | 1,193 | 0 | 25% | 0.2 km |
| Borrisokane | 1,117 | 2 | 862 | 0 | 50% | 1 km |
| Ballyragget | 1,116 | 1 | 163 | 0 | 0% | 8 km |
| Ballinamore | 1,112 | 2 | 573 | 0 | 50% | 1.1 km |
| Buttevant | 1,080 | 2 | 802 | 0 | 100% | 0.6 km |
| Curragh Camp | 1,076 | 8 | 1,733 | 1 | 38% | 1.2 km |
| Milford | 1,076 | 3 | 1,645 | 0 | 67% | 0.5 km |
| Rathvilly | 1,074 | 2 | 248 | 0 | 50% | 6.3 km |
| Dunlavin | 1,074 | 3 | 1,103 | 0 | 33% | 0.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ballon | 801 | 1 | 239 | 0 | 0% | 7.5 km |
Among the 131 other towns, 42 have more pupils at their schools than Buttevant does. Within 3 km, 15 of these 132 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Buttevant
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buttevant | 2 | 802 | 0 | 100% | 0.6 km |
| Mallow 11 km | 11 | 4,357 | 1 | 18% | 0.6 km |
| Charleville 14 km | 6 | 1,334 | 0 | 50% | 0.3 km |
| Kanturk 17 km | 3 | 1,290 | 0 | 0% | 0.4 km |
Mallow has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Pupils around Buttevant: +25% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Kanturk led (+14%) and Mallow trailed (+3%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Buttevant 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 Buttevant
How many schools are there in Buttevant?
In Buttevant or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school and 1 secondary school, with 802 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Buttevant that teach through Irish?
None in Buttevant or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Buttevant?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Buttevant?
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 Buttevant?
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).