Photo: Willie Duffin · CC BY-SA 2.0Few schools around Monivea teach through Irish: 0%, below Co. Galway’s towns and Irish towns
Measured that way, Monivea is below both Co. Galway’s towns (15%) and Irish towns (8%). Pupils: 450, up 17% since 2019/20. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
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 Monivea’s schools
More pupils every year
Pupil numbers at the schools here have grown faster than across Ireland (+5% since 2019/20), so classes and new places are a question worth asking. Pupils over time ↓
One school growing fast
The fastest-growing school here is S.N. Muine Mhea: 192 pupils in 2019/20, 251 now. Getting a place ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Monivea 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 Monivea’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.
Pupil numbers around Monivea
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 Monivea had 335 pupils in 2015/16 and 450 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Monivea
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.
Who runs Monivea’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Monivea’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Archbishop of Tuam (2). None of the 2 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Monivea
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Monivea teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Monivea’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Galway’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Monivea | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 21% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 14% | 6% |
| Girls | 49% | 49% | 49% |
Fewer of the pupils around Monivea are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 0% against 27% (Co. Galway: 21%). The biggest difference from Ireland is in pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here, 6% there.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Muine MheaPrimary | 251 | 49% | ||
| St Oliver Plunketts N.S.Primary | 199 | 49% |
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 Monivea
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 0 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 Monivea
Each school in or within 3 km of Monivea links to a page of its own. These schools carry no letter or result: Ireland doesn’t release them school by school.
Inspection reports for Monivea’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, none rated
Each school is visited by inspectors from time to time, for a whole-school evaluation of teaching, learning and leadership, for one subject, or to follow up earlier advice, and every report is posted 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 2 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. Muine MheaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Oliver Plunketts N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Monivea
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Within 10 km of Monivea there are 3 post-primary schools: 2 ETB schools and one voluntary secondary school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. Just one teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste an EachréidhETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 234 | 8.6 km |
| Presentation CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 1,100 | 9.3 km |
| Clárin CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,140 | 9.6 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Monivea
No special school is in or near Monivea. 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.
Monivea beside the 217 other Irish towns of 300 to 600 people
Schools in or within 3 km of each town, by population; none is ranked, as Ireland publishes no results
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freshford | 593 | 2 | 244 | 0 | 50% | 10 km |
| … | ||||||
| Multyfarnham | 460 | 2 | 675 | 0 | 0% | 2 km |
| Courtbrack | 459 | 1 | 167 | 0 | 0% | 7 km |
| Portroe | 459 | 2 | 256 | 0 | 0% | 8.5 km |
| Slieverue | 458 | 8 | 2,514 | 0 | 0% | 3 km |
| Monivea | 456 | 2 | 450 | 0 | 0% | 8.6 km |
| Castletown | 454 | 5 | 1,192 | 0 | 40% | 2.2 km |
| Mín Lárach | 453 | 6 | 841 | 5 | 100% | 5.9 km |
| O'Briensbridge-Montpelier | 451 | 1 | 107 | 0 | 0% | 7.3 km |
| Johnstown | 450 | 2 | 749 | 0 | 100% | 1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 42 of the other 217 towns than around Monivea. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 19 of the 218.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Monivea
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monivea | 2 | 450 | 0 | 0% | 8.6 km |
| Athenry 8.2 km | 5 | 3,133 | 2 | 0% | 0.4 km |
| Craughwell 16 km | 2 | 426 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Baile Chláir 16 km | 3 | 1,800 | 0 | 33% | 0.8 km |
| Tuam 19 km | 8 | 3,460 | 1 | 25% | 0.3 km |
| Oranmore 19 km | 8 | 3,669 | 1 | 13% | 0.4 km |
Athenry has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Of Monivea’s neighbours, Athenry saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+20%) and Craughwell the least (−11%); Monivea itself: +17%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Monivea 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 Monivea
How many schools are there in Monivea?
In Monivea or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 450 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Monivea that teach through Irish?
None in Monivea or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Monivea?
Not in Monivea or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Coláiste an Eachréidh, 8.6 km away.
What is the best school in Monivea?
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 Monivea?
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).