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Colaiste Muire

Post-primary · Voluntary secondaryCatholic

Crosshaven, Co. Cork · P43 HC98 · Roll number 62200H

Colaiste Muire is the only one of the post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Crosshaven. Every school in and around Crosshaven →

Pupils
523
September, 2025/26
271 girls, 252 boys
Since 2019/20
+16%
from 452 pupils
Ireland: +5%
Ethos
Catholic
Patron: CEIST
Language
English
outside the Gaeltacht
Results
Not published
none school by school (Education Act 1998, s.53)
The gist

What stands out about Colaiste Muire

  • 523 pupils, near the middle for post-primary schools in Ireland (the median is 585).
  • Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
  • Growing: 523 pupils, 16% more than the 452 of 2019/20.
  • 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 CEIST; its ethos is Catholic.
  • The only post-primary school in Crosshaven or within 3 km of it.

Pupils over time

2015/16 to 2025/26

Colaiste Muire had 523 pupils in 2025/26, down from 570 in 2015/16 (−8%). Girls are 52% of them. Its roll rose in 4 of the 10 years.

02004006002015/162018/192021/222025/26PupilsGirls

Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.

No letter

No letter for Colaiste Muire

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 Colaiste Muire 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.

Inspections

Inspection reports on Colaiste Muire

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 in

Getting a place at Colaiste Muire

Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.

Families apply to Colaiste Muire 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.

Pupils
523
September, 2025/26
Since 2019/20
+16%
from 452 pupils

No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Colaiste Muire has grown by 16% since 2019/20. All the schools around Crosshaven together changed by +2%.

Pupils since 2019/20

Colaiste Muire+16%
The post-primary schools around Crosshaven+16%
All Irish post-primary schools+15%

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

2025/26

The 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 Colaiste Muire. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by +16%; 2 of the 6 grew faster.

Colaiste Muire523
Edmund Rice College580
Coláiste Muire709
Carrignafoy322
Carrigaline1,072
Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin302
St Peter's354
SchoolPupilsSince 2019/20EthosLanguageDEISAway
Colaiste Muire523+16%CatholicEnglish
Edmund Rice College580+73%CatholicEnglish5.8 km
Coláiste Muire709+6%CatholicEnglish6 km
Carrignafoy Community College322+0%Multi-denominationalSome subjects in Irish✓6 km
Carrigaline Community School1,072−2%Inter-denominationalEnglish6.4 km
Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin302+156%Multi-denominationalAll in Irish7.7 km
St Peter's Community School354−3%Inter-denominationalEnglish7.7 km
The other 78 post-primary schools in Co. Cork
SchoolPupilsSince 2019/20EthosLanguageDEISAway
St Francis Capuchin College730−5%CatholicEnglish9.3 km
Nagle Community College315+61%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓12 km
St Aloysius College765−1%CatholicEnglish12 km
Carrigtwohill Post Primary912+237%CatholicEnglish13 km
Douglas Community School605+19%Inter-denominationalEnglish13 km
Ursuline College Blackrock352+45%CatholicEnglish✓13 km
Regina Mundi College564−0%CatholicEnglish14 km
Christ King Girls' Secondary School700−10%CatholicEnglish15 km
Ashton School539+2%Church of IrelandEnglish15 km
Christian Brothers Secondary School957+13%CatholicEnglish15 km
Colaiste An Phiarsaigh578+6%CatholicAll in Irish15 km
St Mary's High School762+6%CatholicEnglish15 km
Coláiste Chríost Rí502−13%CatholicSome subjects in Irish15 km
St Colman's Community College1,171+51%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓15 km
Presentation Secondary School190−18%CatholicEnglish✓15 km
Midleton College498+15%Church of IrelandEnglish15 km
Coláiste Daibhéid151−28%Multi-denominationalAll in Irish✓15 km
Glanmire Community College1,141+3%Inter-denominationalEnglish16 km
Coláiste Éamann Rís811+149%CatholicEnglish✓16 km
Mayfield Community School362+28%Inter-denominationalSome subjects in Irish✓16 km
Cork Educate Together Secondary School403+54%Multi-denominationalEnglish16 km
St Patricks College218−14%CatholicEnglish✓16 km
Scoil Mhuire432+2%CatholicEnglish16 km
Christian Brothers College919+1%CatholicEnglish16 km
St. Angela's College606+4%CatholicEnglish16 km
St Aloysius School323+5%CatholicEnglish16 km
Presentation Brothers College692−3%CatholicEnglish17 km
St Vincent's Secondary School283+39%CatholicEnglish✓17 km
North Monastery Secondary School271−22%CatholicEnglish✓17 km
Gaelcholáiste Mhuire690+20%CatholicAll in Irish✓17 km
St Aidan's Community College309−23%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓17 km
Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh715+1%CatholicEnglish18 km
Nano Nagle College161−18%CatholicEnglish✓18 km
Mount Mercy College811+2%CatholicEnglish18 km
Bishopstown Community School306+0%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓18 km
Terence Mac Swiney Community College302+81%Inter-denominationalSome subjects in Irish✓18 km
Kinsale Community School1,450+31%Inter-denominationalEnglish19 km
Coláiste Choilm1,357−0%Inter-denominationalIrish stream22 km
Ballincollig Community School987+20%Inter-denominationalEnglish23 km
Scoil Mhuire gan Smal1,124+40%CatholicEnglish23 km
Le Cheile Secondary School Ballincollig254–CatholicEnglish23 km
Coláiste an Chroí Naofa461−15%CatholicEnglish24 km
Coláiste na Toirbhirte456−8%CatholicEnglish31 km
St. Brogan's College905+50%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓31 km
Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh399+1%CatholicEnglish31 km
Bandon Grammar School712+5%Church of IrelandEnglish32 km
Pobalscoil na Tríonóide1,086+11%Inter-denominationalIrish stream34 km
Coachford College848+10%Inter-denominationalEnglish36 km
Coláiste an Chraoibhín918+6%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓37 km
Loreto Secondary School729+18%CatholicEnglish37 km
Coláiste Cholmáin716+39%CatholicEnglish37 km
Davis College1,033+26%Multi-denominationalSome subjects in Irish✓43 km
Patrician Academy568+1%CatholicEnglish44 km
St Mary's Secondary School749+6%CatholicEnglish45 km
Sacred Heart Secondary School568+7%CatholicEnglish45 km
Clonakilty Community College696+17%Inter-denominationalIrish stream45 km
St Mary'S Secondary School431+33%CatholicEnglish47 km
McEgan College289+60%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓47 km
De La Salle College409+11%CatholicEnglish47 km
Nagle Rice Secondary School260+39%CatholicEnglish51 km
Christian Brothers Secondary School410+27%CatholicEnglish51 km
Coláiste Fionnchua449+63%Multi-denominationalEnglish✓52 km
Presentation Secondary School342+9%CatholicEnglish52 km
Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire589+34%Inter-denominationalEnglish✓55 km
Mount St Michael403+30%CatholicEnglish56 km
Maria Immaculata Community College642+28%Inter-denominationalEnglish57 km
Coláiste Treasa647+18%Multi-denominationalEnglish59 km
Scoil Mhuire271−7%CatholicEnglish59 km
Millstreet Community School359+9%Inter-denominationalEnglish60 km
Colaiste Ghobnatan212−8%Inter-denominationalAll in Irish61 km
Scoil Mhuire109+11%Multi-denominationalAll in Irish65 km
Boherbue Comprehensive School551+70%Inter-denominationalEnglish66 km
Scoil na mBráithre Chríostaí313+11%CatholicEnglish67 km
St. Mary's Secondary School322+10%CatholicEnglish67 km
Skibbereen Community School956+10%Inter-denominationalEnglish72 km
Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí752+11%Inter-denominationalSome subjects in Irish80 km
Schull Community College359−7%Inter-denominationalEnglish92 km
Beara Community School308−6%Inter-denominationalEnglish113 km
Living nearby

Living in Crosshaven

The town’s figures, not this street’s.

Median sale price
€398,600
194 sales, 2023–25, Property Price Register
Average rent
€1,696
a month, new tenancies in 2025

Homes in the P43 Eircode area

Housing in Crosshaven →

The median sale price rose from €365,000 in 2023 to €420,000 in 2025 (+15%).

2023€365,000
2024€375,100
2025€420,000

New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025

New homes€392,900
Second-hand homes€370,300

Property Price Register sales in the P43 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.

New tenancies in Crosshaven averaged €1,696 a month in 2025, against €1,555 in 2024 (+9%).

2024€1,555
2025€1,696

Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.

Crosshaven, P43 HC98

Nearby

Post-primary schools near Colaiste Muire

Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.

Questions about Colaiste Muire

Is Colaiste Muire 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 Colaiste Muire have?

523 pupils in 2025/26. That is +16% since 2019/20.

Does Colaiste Muire teach through Irish?

No: Colaiste Muire teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.

Who runs Colaiste Muire?

Colaiste Muire has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is CEIST.

How do pupils get a place at Colaiste Muire?

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 Colaiste Muire?

The nearest are Edmund Rice College (5.8 km), Coláiste Muire (6 km) and Carrignafoy Community College (6 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 Crosshaven; 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).