Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Clonmany, 100% of schools get DEIS support, more than around Co. Donegal’s towns or Irish towns
Around Clonmany, 100% of schools are in DEIS, above both Co. Donegal’s towns (38%) and Irish towns (35%). DEIS, the extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas, reaches 2 of its 2 schools; across Ireland, 30%. With no school results published in Ireland, and the Education Act 1998 restricting comparisons of them, these schools are described, not 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 Clonmany’s schools
Extra support for many schools
Many schools here are in DEIS, which gives schools in disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and help; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. In DEIS: St Francis' National School (132) and S N na gCluainte (96). Who runs them ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Clonmany 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 Clonmany’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.
Who runs Clonmany’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Clonmany’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Derry (2). 2 of the 2 are 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Clonmany
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Clonmany teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Clonmany’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Donegal’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Clonmany | Co. Donegal | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 100% | 62% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 10% | 6% |
| Girls | 48% | 49% | 49% |
More of the pupils around Clonmany are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 100% against 27% (Co. Donegal: 62%). Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 0% against 6%. The largest DEIS school here is St Francis' National School, with 132 pupils.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Francis' National SchoolPrimary | 132 | 55% | ✓ | |
| S N na gCluaintePrimary | 96 | 39% | ✓ |
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.
How children get a place in Clonmany
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
Of these 2 schools, 1 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 1 have lost as much; Ireland’s 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.
The 2 schools in and around Clonmany
Each school in or within 3 km of Clonmany links to a page of its own. Without school-level results from Ireland, the cards show no letters.
Inspection reports for Clonmany’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, none rated
The Inspectorate inspects schools in several ways: a whole-school evaluation covers teaching, learning and how the school is led; a subject inspection looks at one subject; a follow-through checks on earlier advice. Reports go on gov.ie with the school’s reply.
Reports say what inspectors found and what should improve, without an overall grade, so none appears here; each of the 2 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| St Francis' National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S N na gCluaintePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Clonmany
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Clonmany is Carndonagh Community School, a community school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carndonagh Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 1,118 | 9.5 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Clonmany
No special school is in or near Clonmany. 1 of the 2 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.
Clonmany beside the 215 other Irish towns of 400 to 800 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crinkill | 795 | 7 | 1,708 | 1 | 86% | 3.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Frenchpark | 572 | 1 | 104 | 0 | 100% | 12 km |
| St. Johnston | 571 | 4 | 311 | 0 | 100% | 10 km |
| Ballingarry | 570 | 1 | 204 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Grange | 569 | 3 | 611 | 0 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Clonmany | 569 | 2 | 228 | 0 | 100% | 9.5 km |
| Bun Na Leaca | 569 | 2 | 545 | 2 | 100% | 3 km |
| Keel-Dooagh | 567 | 2 | 54 | 0 | 100% | 14 km |
| Clogheen | 564 | 1 | 81 | 0 | 100% | 13 km |
| Carrignavar | 563 | 2 | 778 | 0 | 0% | 0.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Oilgate | 401 | 2 | 152 | 0 | 100% | 6.2 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 105 of the other 215 towns than around Clonmany. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 18 of the 216.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Clonmany
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Clonmany had 259 pupils in 2015/16 and 228 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Clonmany
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 Clonmany
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonmany | 2 | 228 | 0 | 100% | 9.5 km |
| Carndonagh 9.4 km | 7 | 1,729 | 0 | 100% | 0.1 km |
| Buncrana 14 km | 7 | 2,583 | 2 | 43% | 0.6 km |
Buncrana has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. The roll around Clonmany moved +2% since 2019/20; nearby, Buncrana grew most (+5%) and Carndonagh least (+4%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Clonmany 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 Clonmany
How many schools are there in Clonmany?
In Clonmany or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 228 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Clonmany that teach through Irish?
None in Clonmany or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Clonmany?
Not in Clonmany or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Carndonagh Community School, 9.5 km away.
What is the best school in Clonmany?
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 Clonmany?
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).