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Frogmore, Youghal, Co. Cork · P36 Y763 · Roll number 91513S
Pobalscoil na Tríonóide is the only one of the post-primary schools in or within 3 km of Youghal. Every school in and around Youghal →
What stands out about Pobalscoil na Tríonóide
- One of the larger post-primary schools: 1,086 pupils, against a typical 585.
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (+11%).
- Some classes are taught entirely through Irish, the rest in English.
- A community school: run by a board of the local Education and Training Board and the religious or other bodies that founded it.
- Its patron is Cork ETB & Congregation of Christian Brothers; its ethos is inter-denominational.
- The only post-primary school in Youghal or within 3 km of it.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Pobalscoil na Tríonóide had 1,086 pupils in 2025/26, against 900 in 2015/16 (+21%). Girls are 48% of them. Its largest roll was 1,112, in 2023/24. Its roll rose in 7 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Pobalscoil na Tríonóide
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 Pobalscoil na Tríonóide 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 Pobalscoil na Tríonóide
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 Pobalscoil na Tríonóide
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Pobalscoil na Tríonóide 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.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Pobalscoil na Tríonóide has grown by 11% since 2019/20. All the schools around Youghal together changed by +3%.
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, 1 have more pupils than Pobalscoil na Tríonóide. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by +11%; 4 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pobalscoil na Tríonóide | 1,086 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | ||
| St Colman's Community College | 1,171 | +51% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 21 km |
| Midleton College | 498 | +15% | Church of Ireland | English | 21 km | |
| St Mary's High School | 762 | +6% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Blackwater Community School | 943 | +22% | Inter-denominational | English | 21 km | |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 957 | +13% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Dungarvan College-Coláiste Dhún Garbhán | 247 | +6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 23 km |
The other 80 post-primary schools in Co. Cork
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Aloysius College | 765 | −1% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Carrigtwohill Post Primary | 912 | +237% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Carrignafoy Community College | 322 | +0% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 30 km |
| Coláiste Muire | 709 | +6% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| St Peter's Community School | 354 | −3% | Inter-denominational | English | 33 km | |
| Colaiste Muire | 523 | +16% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| Loreto Secondary School | 729 | +18% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| Coláiste Cholmáin | 716 | +39% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| Coláiste an Chraoibhín | 918 | +6% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 35 km |
| Glanmire Community College | 1,141 | +3% | Inter-denominational | English | 35 km | |
| St Francis Capuchin College | 730 | −5% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Colaiste An Phiarsaigh | 578 | +6% | Catholic | All in Irish | 36 km | |
| Nagle Community College | 315 | +61% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 37 km |
| Ursuline College Blackrock | 352 | +45% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 38 km |
| Carrigaline Community School | 1,072 | −2% | Inter-denominational | English | 38 km | |
| Edmund Rice College | 580 | +73% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin | 302 | +156% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 39 km | |
| Mayfield Community School | 362 | +28% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 39 km |
| Regina Mundi College | 564 | −0% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Douglas Community School | 605 | +19% | Inter-denominational | English | 40 km | |
| St Patricks College | 218 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 40 km |
| Ashton School | 539 | +2% | Church of Ireland | English | 40 km | |
| St Aidan's Community College | 309 | −23% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 41 km |
| Cork Educate Together Secondary School | 403 | +54% | Multi-denominational | English | 41 km | |
| Coláiste an Chroí Naofa | 461 | −15% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Christ King Girls' Secondary School | 700 | −10% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Christian Brothers College | 919 | +1% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Coláiste Chríost Rí | 502 | −13% | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | 41 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 432 | +2% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Coláiste Daibhéid | 151 | −28% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | ✓ | 41 km |
| St. Angela's College | 606 | +4% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Coláiste Éamann Rís | 811 | +149% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| St Vincent's Secondary School | 283 | +39% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| Gaelcholáiste Mhuire | 690 | +20% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 42 km |
| North Monastery Secondary School | 271 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| Presentation Secondary School | 190 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| Nano Nagle College | 161 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| St Aloysius School | 323 | +5% | Catholic | English | 42 km | |
| Presentation Brothers College | 692 | −3% | Catholic | English | 42 km | |
| Terence Mac Swiney Community College | 302 | +81% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 44 km |
| Coláiste Fionnchua | 449 | +63% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 44 km |
| Christian Brothers Secondary School | 410 | +27% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Presentation Secondary School | 342 | +9% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Mount Mercy College | 811 | +2% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh | 715 | +1% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| Bishopstown Community School | 306 | +0% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 45 km |
| Scoil Mhuire gan Smal | 1,124 | +40% | Catholic | English | 47 km | |
| Coláiste Choilm | 1,357 | −0% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 49 km | |
| Ballincollig Community School | 987 | +20% | Inter-denominational | English | 50 km | |
| Le Cheile Secondary School Ballincollig | 254 | – | Catholic | English | 50 km | |
| Kinsale Community School | 1,450 | +31% | Inter-denominational | English | 53 km | |
| Davis College | 1,033 | +26% | Multi-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 56 km |
| St Mary's Secondary School | 749 | +6% | Catholic | English | 57 km | |
| Patrician Academy | 568 | +1% | Catholic | English | 57 km | |
| Nagle Rice Secondary School | 260 | +39% | Catholic | English | 57 km | |
| Coachford College | 848 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 63 km | |
| St. Brogan's College | 905 | +50% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 63 km |
| Colaiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire | 589 | +34% | Inter-denominational | English | ✓ | 63 km |
| Coláiste na Toirbhirte | 456 | −8% | Catholic | English | 63 km | |
| Árdscoil Uí Urmoltaigh | 399 | +1% | Catholic | English | 64 km | |
| Bandon Grammar School | 712 | +5% | Church of Ireland | English | 65 km | |
| Scoil na mBráithre Chríostaí | 313 | +11% | Catholic | English | 71 km | |
| St. Mary's Secondary School | 322 | +10% | Catholic | English | 71 km | |
| St Mary'S Secondary School | 431 | +33% | Catholic | English | 75 km | |
| Coláiste Treasa | 647 | +18% | Multi-denominational | English | 75 km | |
| McEgan College | 289 | +60% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 75 km |
| De La Salle College | 409 | +11% | Catholic | English | 75 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 271 | −7% | Catholic | English | 75 km | |
| Sacred Heart Secondary School | 568 | +7% | Catholic | English | 78 km | |
| Clonakilty Community College | 696 | +17% | Inter-denominational | Irish stream | 79 km | |
| Millstreet Community School | 359 | +9% | Inter-denominational | English | 83 km | |
| Boherbue Comprehensive School | 551 | +70% | Inter-denominational | English | 85 km | |
| Colaiste Ghobnatan | 212 | −8% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 88 km | |
| Mount St Michael | 403 | +30% | Catholic | English | 89 km | |
| Maria Immaculata Community College | 642 | +28% | Inter-denominational | English | 89 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 109 | +11% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 94 km | |
| Skibbereen Community School | 956 | +10% | Inter-denominational | English | 105 km | |
| Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí | 752 | +11% | Inter-denominational | Some subjects in Irish | 112 km | |
| Schull Community College | 359 | −7% | Inter-denominational | English | 125 km | |
| Beara Community School | 308 | −6% | Inter-denominational | English | 144 km |
Living in Youghal
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the P36 Eircode area
Housing in Youghal →The median sale price rose from €250,000 in 2023 to €281,000 in 2025 (+12%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the P36 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Youghal
Cost of living in Youghal →New tenancies in Youghal averaged €1,122 a month in 2025, against €1,006 in 2024 (+12%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
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Youghal, P36 Y763
Post-primary schools near Pobalscoil na Tríonóide
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Pobalscoil na Tríonóide
Is Pobalscoil na Tríonóide 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 Pobalscoil na Tríonóide have?
1,086 pupils in 2025/26. That is +11% since 2019/20.
Does Pobalscoil na Tríonóide teach through Irish?
In part: some classes are taught entirely through Irish, the rest in English.
Who runs Pobalscoil na Tríonóide?
Pobalscoil na Tríonóide has a inter-denominational ethos. Its patron is Cork ETB & Congregation of Christian Brothers.
How do pupils get a place at Pobalscoil na Tríonóide?
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 Pobalscoil na Tríonóide?
The nearest are St Colman's Community College (21 km), Midleton College (21 km) and St Mary's High School (21 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 Youghal; 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).