Photo: Ian Hawfinch · CC BY-SA 2.0In and around Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis, every school teaches through Irish
All-Irish schools make up 100% of those around Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis, above both Co. Kerry’s towns (11%) and Irish towns (8%). Pupils: 796, up 20% 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 Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis’s schools
Taught through Irish
Every school here is in the Gaeltacht and teaches through Irish; across Ireland, 8% of schools teach only through it. They are Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne (441), Clochar Daingean (141), Coláiste Íde (123), Scoil na mBraithre (67) and S.N. an Ghleanna (24). Language ↓
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 ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Teaching through Irish in and around Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
5 of Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis’s 5 schools teach every subject through Irish, 5 of them in the Gaeltacht: Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, Clochar Daingean and Scoil na mBraithre.
Pupil numbers around Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis
Each September’s pupils at every school in or within 3 km of the town, counted where the school stands today.
The schools in and around Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis had 710 pupils in 2015/16 and 796 in 2025/26. Scoil na mBraithre grew most: +63% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis
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.
The 5 schools in and around Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis
Every school in Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Ireland publishes no results school by school, so these cards carry no letters or results.
Where the 5 schools in and around Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis 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 Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis’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 Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Kerry’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 Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis | Co. Kerry | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 8% | 20% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 100% | 9% | 6% |
| Girls | 57% | 49% | 49% |
| Post-primary pupils at single-sex schools | 22% | 33% | 29% |
| Post-primary pupils at fee-paying schools | 0% | 0% | 6% |
8% of the pupils around Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis are at a DEIS school, fewer than the 27% across Ireland (20% in Co. Kerry). The biggest difference from Ireland is in pupils at all-Irish schools: 100% here, 6% there. Of the DEIS schools here, Scoil na mBraithre is the biggest: 67 pupils.
Each of the 5 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pobalscoil Chorca DhuibhnePost-primary · Community school | 441 | 48% | ✓ | |
| Clochar DaingeanPrimary | 141 | 76% | ✓ | |
| Scoil na mBraithrePrimary | 67 | 0% | ✓ | ✓ |
| Coláiste ÍdePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 123 | 100% | ✓ | |
| S.N. an GhleannaPrimary | 24 | 38% | ✓ |
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 Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
4 of Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis’s 5 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Kerry (3), Kerry ETB & Congregation of Christian Brothers (1) and Cairde Colaiste Ide Teoranta (1). 1 of the 5 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.
The 3 patrons of Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
3 patrons run the 5 schools around Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis; the largest, Bishop of Kerry, has 3 of them and 29% of the pupils. The local Education and Training Board runs one.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of KerryClochar Daingean, Scoil na mBraithre, S.N. an Ghleanna | Catholic | 3 | 232 |
| Kerry ETB & Congregation of Christian BrothersPobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne | Inter-denominational | 1 | 441 |
| Cairde Colaiste Ide TeorantaColáiste Íde | Catholic | 1 | 123 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis
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
4 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 0 have shrunk by as much, out of 4; across Ireland: +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 Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
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 5 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Pobalscoil Chorca DhuibhnePost-primary · Community school | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Clochar DaingeanPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil na mBraithrePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Coláiste ÍdePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. an GhleannaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Within 10 km of Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis there are 2 post-primary schools: one community school and one voluntary secondary school. Of these, one teaches only girls or only boys. Every subject is taught through Irish at 2 of them.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pobalscoil Chorca DhuibhneCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaeltacht school | 441 | 0.3 km |
| Coláiste ÍdeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | Gaeltacht school, Boarding | 123 | 2.9 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis beside the 109 other Irish towns of 1,200 to 2,300 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balrothery | 2,282 | 16 | 7,860 | 2 | 31% | 1.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Portumna | 1,690 | 2 | 741 | 0 | 50% | 0.2 km |
| Castledermot | 1,685 | 2 | 678 | 0 | 0% | 0.3 km |
| Allenwood | 1,685 | 4 | 802 | 0 | 0% | 7.2 km |
| Longwood | 1,685 | 2 | 818 | 0 | 50% | 0.6 km |
| Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis | 1,671 | 5 | 796 | 5 | 20% | 0.3 km |
| Manorhamilton | 1,667 | 4 | 811 | 1 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Killaloe | 1,666 | 4 | 1,336 | 0 | 50% | 0.7 km |
| Mullagh | 1,651 | 2 | 450 | 0 | 0% | 9.3 km |
| Baile Chláir | 1,632 | 3 | 1,800 | 0 | 33% | 0.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Clonee | 1,205 | 25 | 12,320 | 2 | 28% | 1.3 km |
Of the other 109 towns, 45 have more pupils at the schools around them than Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 16 of the 110.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis 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 Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis
How many schools are there in Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis?
In Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools and 2 secondary schools, with 796 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis that teach through Irish?
Yes, 5: Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, Clochar Daingean and Scoil na mBraithre teach every subject through Irish.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis?
No: all 2 secondary schools here are free.
What is the best school in Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis?
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 Dingle-Daingean Uí Chuis?
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).