Photo: Honourablemencandiffer · Public domainMost post-primaries around Myrtleville take girls and boys: 0% are single-sex, below Co. Cork’s towns and Irish towns
For Myrtleville, that is below both Co. Cork’s towns (44%) and Irish towns (39%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, Colaiste Muire, has 523 pupils. 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.
What stands out about Myrtleville’s schools
A wide choice at twelve
Within 10 km of the town there are 7 post-primary schools to choose from, of different kinds; each sets its own admission policy, and many families apply to several. The nearest: Colaiste Muire (2.3 km), Edmund Rice College (6.7 km) and Carrigaline Community School (7.5 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
The 4 schools in and around Myrtleville
Every school in Myrtleville or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Letters and results are missing here for a reason: Ireland publishes neither school by school.
Where the 4 schools in and around Myrtleville 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 Myrtleville’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 Myrtleville
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 4 schools in and around Myrtleville teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Myrtleville’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 Myrtleville | Co. Cork | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 8% | 6% |
| Girls | 50% | 49% | 49% |
Fewer of the pupils around Myrtleville are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 0% against 27% (Co. Cork: 18%). Furthest from Ireland’s mix is the share of pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here against 6%.
Each of the 4 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Templebrady N.S.Primary | 68 | 54% | ||
| Colaiste MuirePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 523 | 52% | ||
| S.N. Bun an TsabhairnePrimary | 193 | 100% | ||
| S.N. Cros TseainPrimary | 215 | 0% |
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.
Who runs Myrtleville’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Myrtleville’s 4 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Cork & Ross (2), Bishop of Cork, Cloyne & Ross COI (1) and CEIST (1). None of the 4 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 3 patrons of Myrtleville’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
Of the 4 schools around Myrtleville, 2 have Bishop of Cork & Ross as patron, teaching 41% of the pupils; 3 patrons in all.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of Cork & RossS.N. Cros Tseain, S.N. Bun an Tsabhairne | Catholic | 2 | 408 |
| CEISTColaiste Muire | Catholic | 1 | 523 |
| Bishop of Cork, Cloyne & Ross COITemplebrady | Church of Ireland | 1 | 68 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Myrtleville
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
Since 2019/20, 2 of these 4 schools have grown by 5% or more and 2 have shrunk as much; across Ireland the number of pupils changed by +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 Myrtleville’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, none rated
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.
The reports describe what inspectors saw and what each school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the 4 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Templebrady N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Colaiste MuirePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Bun an TsabhairnePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Cros TseainPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Myrtleville
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
7 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Myrtleville: 3 voluntary secondary schools, 2 community schools and 2 ETB schools. Every one of them takes girls and boys. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colaiste MuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 523 | 2.3 km |
| Edmund Rice CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 580 | 6.7 km |
| Carrigaline Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,072 | 7.5 km |
| Coláiste MuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 709 | 8.2 km |
| Carrignafoy Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 322 | 8.3 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui LeighinETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 302 | 8.9 km |
| St Peter's Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 354 | 9.9 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Myrtleville
No special school is in or near Myrtleville. 1 of the 3 primary schools have 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.
Myrtleville beside the 159 other Irish towns of 700 to 1,300 people
Towns of a similar size, with the schools in or within 3 km of each; ordered by population, never ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cahirciveen | 1,297 | 2 | 691 | 0 | 50% | 1.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Newcastle | 1,010 | 5 | 1,475 | 0 | 20% | 3.1 km |
| Carragh | 1,006 | 2 | 1,383 | 0 | 0% | 3.5 km |
| Castletownbere | 999 | 3 | 524 | 0 | 67% | 0.4 km |
| Ardfinnan | 978 | 1 | 244 | 0 | 0% | 8.5 km |
| Myrtleville | 965 | 4 | 999 | 0 | 0% | 2.3 km |
| Leighlinbridge | 959 | 1 | 182 | 0 | 0% | 4 km |
| Summerhill | 947 | 3 | 531 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| Drommahane | 947 | 1 | 207 | 0 | 0% | 3.9 km |
| Durrow | 946 | 1 | 192 | 0 | 0% | 8.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Shanagarry | 700 | 2 | 201 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 32 of the other 159 towns than around Myrtleville. 17 of the 160 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Myrtleville
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 Myrtleville had 1,051 pupils in 2015/16 and 999 in 2025/26, fewer than before. Templebrady N.S. grew most: +19% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Myrtleville
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 Myrtleville
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myrtleville | 4 | 999 | 0 | 0% | 2.3 km |
| Crosshaven 2.2 km | 5 | 1,057 | 0 | 20% | 0.5 km |
| Whitegate 7.2 km | 2 | 391 | 0 | 0% | 5.2 km |
| Carrigaline 7.8 km | 12 | 4,439 | 2 | 8% | 0.5 km |
| Cobh 8 km | 13 | 3,613 | 1 | 23% | 0.8 km |
| Aghada-Rostellan 8.5 km | 3 | 574 | 0 | 0% | 5.5 km |
| Passage West-Monkstown 10 km | 16 | 4,438 | 0 | 6% | 0.1 km |
Carrigaline has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. The roll around Myrtleville moved +5% since 2019/20; nearby, Carrigaline grew most (+9%) and Cobh least (−11%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Myrtleville 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 Myrtleville
How many schools are there in Myrtleville?
In Myrtleville or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 999 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Myrtleville that teach through Irish?
None in Myrtleville 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 Myrtleville?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Myrtleville?
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 Myrtleville?
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).