Coláiste an Chraoibhín
Duntaheen Road, Fermoy, Co Cork · P61 VX78 · Roll number 70990M
Coláiste an Chraoibhín is one of 3 post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Fermoy. Every school in and around Fermoy →
What stands out about Coláiste an Chraoibhín
- One of the larger post-primary schools: 918 pupils, against a typical 585.
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (+6%).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- In 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.
- The largest of the 3 post-primary schools around Fermoy.
- An ETB school: run by the county’s Education and Training Board.
- Its patron is the Cork ETB; its ethos is multi-denominational.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Coláiste an Chraoibhín had 918 pupils in 2025/26, against 618 in 2015/16 (+49%). Girls are 46% of them. Its largest roll was 922, in 2024/25. Its roll rose in 9 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Coláiste an Chraoibhín
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 Coláiste an Chraoibhín 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 Coláiste an Chraoibhín
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 Coláiste an Chraoibhín
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Coláiste an Chraoibhín 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 is in DEIS, so it has extra support for pupils from disadvantaged areas.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Coláiste an Chraoibhín has grown by 6% since 2019/20. All the schools around Fermoy together changed by +10%.
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.
Coláiste an Chraoibhín has more pupils than any of the 6 nearest post-primary schools. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by +6%; 5 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste an Chraoibhín | 918 | +6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | |
| Coláiste Cholmáin | 716 | +39% | Catholic | English | 0.5 km | |
| Loreto Secondary School | 729 | +18% | Catholic | English | 0.6 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 410 | +27% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Coláiste Fionnchua | 449 | +63% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| Presentation Secondary School | 342 | +9% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Coláiste an Chroí Naofa | 461 | −15% | Catholic | English | 21 km |
The other 78 post-primary schools in Co. Cork
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nagle Rice Secondary School | 260 | +39% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| Glanmire Community College | 1,141 | +3% | Inter-denominational | English | 24 km | |
| St Mary's Secondary School | 749 | +6% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Davis College | 1,033 | +26% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 24 km |
| Patrician Academy | 568 | +1% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Carrigtwohill Post Primary | 912 | +237% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| St Aloysius College | 765 | −1% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Colaiste An Phiarsaigh | 578 | +6% | Catholic | All in Irish | 25 km | |
| Midleton College | 498 | +15% | Church of Ireland | English | 26 km | |
| St Colman's Community College | 1,171 | +51% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 26 km |
| St Mary's High School | 762 | +6% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 957 | +13% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| St Aidan's Community College | 309 | −23% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 27 km |
| Mayfield Community School | 362 | +28% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 27 km |
| St Patricks College | 218 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| Ursuline College Blackrock | 352 | +45% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| Nagle Community College | 315 | +61% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| Cork Educate Together Secondary School | 403 | +54% | Multi-denominational | English | 28 km | |
| Nano Nagle College | 161 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Mhuire | 690 | +20% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 28 km |
| North Monastery Secondary School | 271 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 29 km |
| Christian Brothers College | 919 | +1% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| St Vincent's Secondary School | 283 | +39% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 29 km |
| Scoil Mhuire | 432 | +2% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| St. Angela's College | 606 | +4% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire | 589 | +34% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 29 km |
| Ashton School | 539 | +2% | Church of Ireland | English | 29 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire gan Smal | 1,124 | +40% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| Coláiste Daibhéid | 151 | −28% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | ✓ | 30 km |
| Terence Mac Swiney Community College | 302 | +81% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 30 km |
| Presentation Brothers College | 692 | −3% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| St Aloysius School | 323 | +5% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Coláiste Chríost Rí | 502 | −13% | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | 30 km | |
| Regina Mundi College | 564 | −0% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Coláiste Éamann Rís | 811 | +149% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 30 km |
| St Peter's Community School | 354 | −3% | Inter-denominational | English | 30 km | |
| St Francis Capuchin College | 730 | −5% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Christ King Girls' Secondary School | 700 | −10% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Douglas Community School | 605 | +19% | Inter-denominational | English | 30 km | |
| Presentation Secondary School | 190 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 31 km |
| Carrignafoy Community College | 322 | +0% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 31 km |
| Coláiste Muire | 709 | +6% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| Mount Mercy College | 811 | +2% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh | 715 | +1% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Bishopstown Community School | 306 | +0% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 32 km |
| Coláiste Choilm | 1,357 | −0% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 34 km | |
| Ballincollig Community School | 987 | +20% | Inter-denominational | English | 35 km | |
| Pobalscoil na Tríonóide | 1,086 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 35 km | |
| Le Cheile Secondary School Ballincollig | 254 | – | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin | 302 | +156% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 35 km | |
| Carrigaline Community School | 1,072 | −2% | Inter-denominational | English | 36 km | |
| Scoil na mBráithre Chríostaí | 313 | +11% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| St. Mary's Secondary School | 322 | +10% | Catholic | English | 37 km | |
| Edmund Rice College | 580 | +73% | Catholic | English | 37 km | |
| Colaiste Muire | 523 | +16% | Catholic | English | 37 km | |
| Coláiste Treasa | 647 | +18% | Multi-denominational | English | 42 km | |
| Coachford College | 848 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 43 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 271 | −7% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Kinsale Community School | 1,450 | +31% | Inter-denominational | English | 51 km | |
| St. Brogan's College | 905 | +50% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 53 km |
| St Mary'S Secondary School | 431 | +33% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| McEgan College | 289 | +60% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 53 km |
| De La Salle College | 409 | +11% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| Boherbue Comprehensive School | 551 | +70% | Inter-denominational | English | 53 km | |
| Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh | 399 | +1% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| Coláiste na Toirbhirte | 456 | −8% | Catholic | English | 54 km | |
| Millstreet Community School | 359 | +9% | Inter-denominational | English | 54 km | |
| Bandon Grammar School | 712 | +5% | Church of Ireland | English | 55 km | |
| Colaiste Ghobnatan | 212 | −8% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 63 km | |
| Sacred Heart Secondary School | 568 | +7% | Catholic | English | 70 km | |
| Clonakilty Community College | 696 | +17% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 70 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 109 | +11% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 72 km | |
| Maria Immaculata Community College | 642 | +28% | Inter-denominational | English | 74 km | |
| Mount St Michael | 403 | +30% | Catholic | English | 80 km | |
| Skibbereen Community School | 956 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 93 km | |
| Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí | 752 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | 95 km | |
| Schull Community College | 359 | −7% | Inter-denominational | English | 110 km | |
| Beara Community School | 308 | −6% | Inter-denominational | English | 124 km |
Living in Fermoy
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Homes in the P61 Eircode area
Housing in Fermoy →The median sale price rose from €278,000 in 2023 to €365,000 in 2025 (+31%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the P61 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Fermoy
Cost of living in Fermoy →New tenancies in Fermoy averaged €1,197 a month in 2025, against €1,087 in 2024 (+10%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗Fermoy, P61 VX78
Post-primary schools near Coláiste an Chraoibhín
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Coláiste an Chraoibhín
Is Coláiste an Chraoibhín 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 Coláiste an Chraoibhín have?
918 pupils in 2025/26. That is +6% since 2019/20.
Does Coláiste an Chraoibhín teach through Irish?
No: Coláiste an Chraoibhín teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Coláiste an Chraoibhín?
Coláiste an Chraoibhín has a multi-denominational ethos. Its patron is Cork ETB.
How do pupils get a place at Coláiste an Chraoibhín?
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 Coláiste an Chraoibhín?
The nearest are Coláiste Cholmáin (0.5 km), Loreto Secondary School (0.6 km) and Christian Brothers Secondary School (14 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 Fermoy; 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).