Photo: Donal.hunt · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer single-sex secondaries around Carrignavar than around Co. Cork’s towns or Irish towns: 0%
On this, Carrignavar is below both Co. Cork’s towns (44%) and Irish towns (39%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, Coláiste an Chroí Naofa, has 461 pupils. With no school results published in Ireland, and the Education Act 1998 restricting comparisons of them, these schools are described, not graded or ranked.
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.
What stands out about Carrignavar’s schools
A wide choice at twelve
16 post-primary schools lie within 10 km, so families here have a real choice at twelve; each admits on its own policy. The nearest: Coláiste an Chroí Naofa (0.7 km), St Aidan's Community College (7.7 km) and Scoil Mhuire gan Smal (8.6 km). Post-primary choices ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Who runs Carrignavar’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Carrignavar’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Cork & Ross (1) and CEIST (1). None of the 2 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.
The 2 schools in and around Carrignavar
Every school in Carrignavar or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Without school-level results from Ireland, the cards show no letters.
Where the 2 schools in and around Carrignavar 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 Carrignavar’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 Carrignavar
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Carrignavar teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Carrignavar’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside 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 Carrignavar | Co. Cork | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 8% | 6% |
| Girls | 52% | 49% | 49% |
0% of the pupils around Carrignavar are at a DEIS school, fewer than the 27% across Ireland (18% in Co. Cork). Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil an Athar TadhgPrimary | 317 | 52% | ||
| Coláiste an Chroí NaofaPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 461 | 51% |
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 Carrignavar
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, 1 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.
Inspection reports for Carrignavar’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
The Inspectorate inspects schools in several ways: a whole-school evaluation covers teaching, learning and how the school is led; a subject inspection looks at one subject; a follow-through checks on earlier advice. Reports go on gov.ie with the school’s reply.
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 |
|---|---|
| Scoil an Athar TadhgPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Coláiste an Chroí NaofaPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Carrignavar
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
16 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Carrignavar: 12 voluntary secondary schools, 3 ETB schools and one community school. Of these, 4 are single-sex: 3 for girls and 1 for boys. Fees are charged at 2 of them. Every subject is taught through Irish at 2 of them.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste an Chroí NaofaVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 461 | 0.7 km |
| St Aidan's Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 309 | 7.7 km |
| Scoil Mhuire gan SmalVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 1,124 | 8.6 km |
| Nano Nagle CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | DEIS | 161 | 8.6 km |
| Mayfield Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 362 | 8.8 km |
| Gaelcholáiste MhuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste, DEIS | 690 | 8.9 km |
| North Monastery Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | DEIS | 271 | 9.1 km |
| Glanmire Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,141 | 9.1 km |
| St Patricks CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | DEIS | 218 | 9.1 km |
| St Vincent's Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | DEIS | 283 | 9.2 km |
| Cork Educate Together Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 403 | 9.5 km |
| Colaiste An PhiarsaighVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste, Boarding | 578 | 9.5 km |
All 16 post-primary schools within reach
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Brothers CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | Fee-paying | 919 | 9.6 km |
| St. Angela's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 606 | 9.6 km |
| Terence Mac Swiney Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 302 | 9.7 km |
| Scoil MhuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | Fee-paying | 432 | 9.7 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Carrignavar
No special school is in or near Carrignavar. 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.
Carrignavar beside the 215 other Irish towns of 400 to 800 people
Schools in or within 3 km of each town, by population; none is ranked, as Ireland publishes no results
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crinkill | 795 | 7 | 1,708 | 1 | 86% | 3.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Clonmany | 569 | 2 | 228 | 0 | 100% | 9.5 km |
| Bun Na Leaca | 569 | 2 | 545 | 2 | 100% | 3 km |
| Keel-Dooagh | 567 | 2 | 54 | 0 | 100% | 14 km |
| Clogheen | 564 | 1 | 81 | 0 | 100% | 13 km |
| Carrignavar | 563 | 2 | 778 | 0 | 0% | 0.7 km |
| Rathard-Aherla | 562 | 2 | 246 | 0 | 0% | 7.7 km |
| The Ballagh | 560 | 2 | 270 | 0 | 50% | 9.6 km |
| Clarina | 559 | 5 | 2,090 | 1 | 0% | 3.2 km |
| Ballinabrannagh | 557 | 1 | 184 | 0 | 0% | 4.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Oilgate | 401 | 2 | 152 | 0 | 100% | 6.2 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 29 of the other 215 towns than around Carrignavar. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 18 of the 216.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Carrignavar
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 Carrignavar had 862 pupils in 2015/16 and 778 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Carrignavar
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 Carrignavar
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrignavar | 2 | 778 | 0 | 0% | 0.7 km |
| Ballyvolane 7.8 km | 60 | 16,728 | 8 | 45% | 1.9 km |
| Hollyhill and Ballincolly 8.1 km | 84 | 27,337 | 7 | 43% | 1.1 km |
| The Glen 8.1 km | 66 | 19,000 | 5 | 50% | 0.5 km |
| Fair Hill 8.2 km | 58 | 17,368 | 5 | 55% | 0.4 km |
| Riverstown 8.3 km | 12 | 4,146 | 3 | 8% | 0.8 km |
| Blarney 8.4 km | 5 | 2,101 | 1 | 20% | 0.6 km |
Ballyvolane has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 8. Pupils around Carrignavar: −10% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Blarney led (+45%) and Riverstown trailed (−1%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Carrignavar 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 Carrignavar
How many schools are there in Carrignavar?
In Carrignavar or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school and 1 secondary school, with 778 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Carrignavar that teach through Irish?
None in Carrignavar 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 Carrignavar?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Carrignavar?
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 Carrignavar?
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).