Photo: Clogh JAC · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Clogh, 100% of schools get DEIS support, more than around Co. Kilkenny’s towns or Irish towns
DEIS, the extra support for schools serving disadvantaged areas, reaches 100% of the schools around Clogh, above both Co. Kilkenny’s towns (11%) and Irish towns (35%). DEIS, the extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas, reaches 3 of its 3 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 Clogh’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: S.N. an Moinin Rua (127), St Patricks N.S. (57) and Scoil an Chroi Ro Naofa (29). Who runs them ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Where the 3 schools in and around Clogh 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 Clogh’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 Clogh’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
3 of Clogh’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Ossory (2) and Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin (1). 3 of the 3 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 Clogh
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 3 schools in and around Clogh teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Clogh’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Kilkenny’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Clogh | Co. Kilkenny | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 100% | 20% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 48% | 49% | 49% |
100% of the pupils around Clogh are at a DEIS school, more than the 27% across Ireland (20% in Co. Kilkenny). Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%. S.N. an Moinin Rua, with 127 pupils, is the largest school here in DEIS.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Patricks N.S.Primary | 57 | 39% | ✓ | |
| Scoil an Chroi Ro NaofaPrimary | 29 | 48% | ✓ | |
| S.N. an Moinin RuaPrimary | 127 | 53% | ✓ |
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.
The 2 patrons of Clogh’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
Of the 3 schools around Clogh, 2 have Bishop of Ossory as patron, teaching 86% of the pupils; 2 patrons in all.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of OssoryS.N. an Moinin Rua, St Patricks | Catholic | 2 | 184 |
| Bishop of Kildare & LeighlinScoil an Chroi Ro Naofa | Catholic | 1 | 29 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Clogh
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
Between 2019/20 and now, 0 of the 3 grew by 5% or more and 2 shrank as much, while Ireland’s pupil numbers moved +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 3 schools in and around Clogh
Here are the schools in Clogh or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. No school here carries a letter or a result: Ireland publishes neither for individual schools.
Inspection reports for Clogh’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 3 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| St Patricks N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil an Chroi Ro NaofaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. an Moinin RuaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Clogh
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
Within 10 km of Clogh there are 2 post-primary schools: 2 community schools. Every one of them takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 634 | 7.6 km |
| Heywood Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 749 | 9.3 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Clogh beside the 224 other Irish towns of 200 to 400 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossbarry | 399 | 2 | 184 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Aglish | 306 | 2 | 99 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Rockcorry | 302 | 2 | 110 | 0 | 50% | 6.4 km |
| Silvermines | 301 | 1 | 57 | 0 | 0% | 8.3 km |
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
| Clogh | 298 | 3 | 213 | 0 | 100% | 7.6 km |
| Cut Bush | 297 | 4 | 661 | 0 | 75% | 2.7 km |
| Castletown Geoghegan | 297 | 2 | 105 | 0 | 0% | 8.5 km |
| Villierstown | 297 | 2 | 99 | 0 | 0% | 7.9 km |
| Rathtoe | 296 | 1 | 175 | 0 | 0% | 4.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 60 of the other 224 towns than around Clogh. Within 3 km, 17 of these 225 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Clogh
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 Clogh had 212 pupils in 2015/16 and 213 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Clogh
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 Clogh
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clogh | 3 | 213 | 0 | 100% | 7.6 km |
| Castlecomer 7.8 km | 3 | 807 | 0 | 67% | 0.5 km |
| Ballylinan 12 km | 3 | 435 | 0 | 0% | 7.2 km |
| Abbeyleix 13 km | 2 | 353 | 0 | 0% | 4.5 km |
| Ballyragget 14 km | 1 | 163 | 0 | 0% | 8 km |
| Carlow 17 km | 19 | 7,832 | 2 | 42% | 0.7 km |
| Stradbally 17 km | 2 | 375 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
Carlow has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Of Clogh’s neighbours, Stradbally saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+24%) and Abbeyleix the least (−16%); Clogh itself: −8%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Clogh 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 Clogh
How many schools are there in Clogh?
In Clogh or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, with 213 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Clogh that teach through Irish?
None in Clogh or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Clogh?
Not in Clogh or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Community School, 7.6 km away.
What is the best school in Clogh?
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 Clogh?
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).