Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Inishannon, only 0% of schools are in DEIS, fewer than around Co. Cork’s towns or Irish towns
For Inishannon, that is below both Co. Cork’s towns (37%) and Irish towns (35%). S.N. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never 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.
Where the school in or near Inishannon 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 Inishannon’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 Inishannon
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 1 schools in and around Inishannon teaches every subject through Irish.
Who runs Inishannon’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
1 of Inishannon’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 Inishannon
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 Inishannon
Each school in or within 3 km of Inishannon links to a page of its own. No letters and no results: Ireland publishes none school by school.
Inspection reports for Inishannon’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, 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; the link below opens the school’s own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. Inis EoghanainPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Inishannon
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
4 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Inishannon: 3 voluntary secondary schools and one ETB school. One of them is single-sex. One of them charges fees. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Brogan's CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 905 | 5.7 km |
| Coláiste na ToirbhirteVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 456 | 5.9 km |
| Árdscoil Uí UrmoltaighVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 399 | 6.3 km |
| Bandon Grammar SchoolVoluntary secondary · Church of Ireland | Girls and boys | Fee-paying, Boarding | 712 | 7.4 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Inishannon
No special school is in or near Inishannon. 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.
Inishannon beside the 168 other Irish towns of 700 to 1,400 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moville | 1,390 | 5 | 1,100 | 1 | 40% | 0.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Granard | 1,058 | 6 | 1,295 | 0 | 50% | 0.5 km |
| Kilmeage | 1,054 | 2 | 357 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Newmarket | 1,052 | 2 | 224 | 0 | 0% | 7.2 km |
| Kilcormac | 1,051 | 3 | 536 | 0 | 33% | 0.7 km |
| Inishannon | 1,043 | 1 | 295 | 0 | 0% | 5.7 km |
| Béal An Mhuirthead | 1,042 | 4 | 807 | 0 | 100% | 0.6 km |
| Tinahely | 1,037 | 3 | 272 | 0 | 0% | 9.7 km |
| Craughwell | 1,034 | 2 | 426 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Knock | 1,029 | 1 | 152 | 0 | 100% | 7.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Shanagarry | 700 | 2 | 201 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 106 of the other 168 towns than around Inishannon. 20 of the 169 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Inishannon
Each September’s pupils at every school in or within 3 km of the town, counted where the school stands today.
The schools in and around Inishannon had 288 pupils in 2015/16 and 295 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Inishannon
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 Inishannon
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inishannon | 1 | 295 | 0 | 0% | 5.7 km |
| Bandon 6.2 km | 10 | 3,617 | 1 | 10% | 0.4 km |
| Killumney 11 km | 7 | 2,866 | 1 | 0% | 4 km |
| Kinsale 12 km | 5 | 2,264 | 1 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Ballincollig 14 km | 28 | 11,989 | 4 | 14% | 0.6 km |
| Inishkenny 15 km | 43 | 16,164 | 4 | 35% | 1.4 km |
| Lehenagh 16 km | 43 | 14,801 | 4 | 33% | 2.3 km |
Ballincollig has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 4. Pupils around Inishannon: −5% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Killumney led (+22%) and Lehenagh trailed (−3%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Inishannon 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 Inishannon
How many schools are there in Inishannon?
In Inishannon or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school, with 295 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Inishannon that teach through Irish?
None in Inishannon or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Inishannon?
Not in Inishannon or within 3 km of it; the nearest is St. Brogan's College, 5.7 km away.
What is the best school in Inishannon?
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 Inishannon?
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).