Coláiste Fionnchua
Mitchelstown, Mallow, Co.Cork · P67 AK37 · Roll number 71040M
Coláiste Fionnchua is one of 3 post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Mitchelstown. Every school in and around Mitchelstown →
What stands out about Coláiste Fionnchua
- 449 pupils, near the middle for post-primary schools in Ireland (the median is 585).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Growing: 449 pupils, 63% more than the 275 of 2019/20.
- 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 Mitchelstown.
- 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 Fionnchua had 449 pupils in 2025/26, against 290 in 2015/16 (+55%). Girls are 54% of them. 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 Fionnchua
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 Fionnchua 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 Fionnchua
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 Fionnchua
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Coláiste Fionnchua 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 Fionnchua has grown by 63% since 2019/20. All the schools around Mitchelstown together changed by +12%.
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.
Of the 6 nearest post-primary schools, 4 have more pupils than Coláiste Fionnchua. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by +63%; 0 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste Fionnchua | 449 | +63% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | |
| Presentation Secondary School | 342 | +9% | Catholic | English | 0.2 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 410 | +27% | Catholic | English | 0.3 km | |
| Coláiste Cholmáin | 716 | +39% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Loreto Secondary School | 729 | +18% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Coláiste an Chraoibhín | 918 | +6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 15 km |
| Scoil Pól | 715 | +40% | Catholic | English | 18 km |
The other 79 post-primary schools in Co. Cork
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nagle Rice Secondary School | 260 | +39% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire | 589 | +34% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| St Mary's Secondary School | 749 | +6% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| Patrician Academy | 568 | +1% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Scoil na mBráithre Chríostaí | 313 | +11% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Davis College | 1,033 | +26% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 30 km |
| St. Mary's Secondary School | 322 | +10% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| Coláiste an Chroí Naofa | 461 | −15% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| Glanmire Community College | 1,141 | +3% | Inter-denominational | English | 38 km | |
| Carrigtwohill Post Primary | 912 | +237% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Midleton College | 498 | +15% | Church of Ireland | English | 39 km | |
| St Aloysius College | 765 | −1% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Colaiste An Phiarsaigh | 578 | +6% | Catholic | All in Irish | 40 km | |
| St Colman's Community College | 1,171 | +51% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 40 km |
| St Mary's High School | 762 | +6% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 957 | +13% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| St Aidan's Community College | 309 | −23% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 41 km |
| Mayfield Community School | 362 | +28% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 41 km |
| St Patricks College | 218 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| Nano Nagle College | 161 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| Scoil Mhuire gan Smal | 1,124 | +40% | Catholic | English | 42 km | |
| Gaelcholáiste Mhuire | 690 | +20% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 42 km |
| Cork Educate Together Secondary School | 403 | +54% | Multi-denominational | English | 42 km | |
| Ursuline College Blackrock | 352 | +45% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| North Monastery Secondary School | 271 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| St Vincent's Secondary School | 283 | +39% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| Christian Brothers College | 919 | +1% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Nagle Community College | 315 | +61% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 43 km |
| St. Angela's College | 606 | +4% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 432 | +2% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Ashton School | 539 | +2% | Church of Ireland | English | 43 km | |
| Terence Mac Swiney Community College | 302 | +81% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 43 km |
| Coláiste Daibhéid | 151 | −28% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | ✓ | 44 km |
| Presentation Brothers College | 692 | −3% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| St Aloysius School | 323 | +5% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Pobalscoil na Tríonóide | 1,086 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 44 km | |
| Coláiste Chríost Rí | 502 | −13% | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | 44 km | |
| Coláiste Éamann Rís | 811 | +149% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 44 km |
| Regina Mundi College | 564 | −0% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Christ King Girls' Secondary School | 700 | −10% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Coláiste Treasa | 647 | +18% | Multi-denominational | English | 45 km | |
| Douglas Community School | 605 | +19% | Inter-denominational | English | 45 km | |
| St Francis Capuchin College | 730 | −5% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| St Peter's Community School | 354 | −3% | Inter-denominational | English | 45 km | |
| Presentation Secondary School | 190 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 45 km |
| Mount Mercy College | 811 | +2% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 271 | −7% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| Carrignafoy Community College | 322 | +0% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 46 km |
| Coláiste Muire | 709 | +6% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh | 715 | +1% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| Bishopstown Community School | 306 | +0% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 46 km |
| Coláiste Choilm | 1,357 | −0% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 47 km | |
| Ballincollig Community School | 987 | +20% | Inter-denominational | English | 48 km | |
| Le Cheile Secondary School Ballincollig | 254 | – | Catholic | English | 48 km | |
| Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin | 302 | +156% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 50 km | |
| Carrigaline Community School | 1,072 | −2% | Inter-denominational | English | 50 km | |
| Edmund Rice College | 580 | +73% | Catholic | English | 51 km | |
| Colaiste Muire | 523 | +16% | Catholic | English | 52 km | |
| Coachford College | 848 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 53 km | |
| Boherbue Comprehensive School | 551 | +70% | Inter-denominational | English | 56 km | |
| Millstreet Community School | 359 | +9% | Inter-denominational | English | 59 km | |
| St Mary'S Secondary School | 431 | +33% | Catholic | English | 62 km | |
| McEgan College | 289 | +60% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 62 km |
| De La Salle College | 409 | +11% | Catholic | English | 62 km | |
| Kinsale Community School | 1,450 | +31% | Inter-denominational | English | 65 km | |
| St. Brogan's College | 905 | +50% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 66 km |
| Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh | 399 | +1% | Catholic | English | 66 km | |
| Coláiste na Toirbhirte | 456 | −8% | Catholic | English | 67 km | |
| Bandon Grammar School | 712 | +5% | Church of Ireland | English | 68 km | |
| Colaiste Ghobnatan | 212 | −8% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 71 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 109 | +11% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 81 km | |
| Sacred Heart Secondary School | 568 | +7% | Catholic | English | 83 km | |
| Clonakilty Community College | 696 | +17% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 83 km | |
| Maria Immaculata Community College | 642 | +28% | Inter-denominational | English | 85 km | |
| Mount St Michael | 403 | +30% | Catholic | English | 92 km | |
| Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí | 752 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | 104 km | |
| Skibbereen Community School | 956 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 105 km | |
| Schull Community College | 359 | −7% | Inter-denominational | English | 121 km | |
| Beara Community School | 308 | −6% | Inter-denominational | English | 132 km |
Living in Mitchelstown
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the P67 Eircode area
Housing in Mitchelstown →The median sale price rose from €235,000 in 2023 to €267,500 in 2025 (+14%).
Property Price Register sales in the P67 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Mitchelstown
Cost of living in Mitchelstown →New tenancies in Mitchelstown averaged €1,082 a month in 2025, against €1,034 in 2024 (+5%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗Mitchelstown, P67 AK37
Post-primary schools near Coláiste Fionnchua
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Coláiste Fionnchua
Is Coláiste Fionnchua 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 Fionnchua have?
449 pupils in 2025/26. That is +63% since 2019/20.
Does Coláiste Fionnchua teach through Irish?
No: Coláiste Fionnchua teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Coláiste Fionnchua?
Coláiste Fionnchua has a multi-denominational ethos. Its patron is Cork ETB.
How do pupils get a place at Coláiste Fionnchua?
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 Fionnchua?
The nearest are Presentation Secondary School (0.2 km), Christian Brothers Secondary School (0.3 km) and Coláiste Cholmáin (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 Mitchelstown; 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).