Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0More children at the schools around Drumod: +27% since 2019/20, above Irish towns
That puts Drumod above Irish towns (+4%). Its schools have 284 pupils, 27% more than in 2019/20. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never 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 Drumod’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 ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Drumod 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 Drumod’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 Drumod
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 Drumod had 185 pupils in 2015/16 and 284 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Drumod
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 Drumod’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Drumod’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Ardagh & Clonmacnoise (1) and Bishop of Elphin (1). 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 Drumod
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Drumod teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Drumod’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, beside Co. Leitrim’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Drumod | Co. Leitrim | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 4% | 6% |
| Girls | 52% | 49% | 49% |
Around Drumod, 0% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 18% in Co. Leitrim. Where this area differs most from Ireland is pupils at all-Irish schools, at 0% against 6%.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil MhuirePrimary | 124 | 50% | ||
| Rooskey N.S.Primary | 160 | 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.
How children get a place in Drumod
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, 2 of the 2 grew by 5% or more and 0 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 2 schools in and around Drumod
Each school in or within 3 km of Drumod links to a page of its own. Results by school aren’t published in Ireland, so the cards carry none.
Inspection reports for Drumod’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
Reports come from whole-school evaluations (teaching, learning, leadership and management), subject inspections and follow-through visits that check earlier advice; gov.ie publishes each one with the school’s response.
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 |
|---|---|
| Scoil MhuirePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Rooskey 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 Drumod
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 Drumod is Mohill Community College, an ETB school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohill Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 531 | 7.7 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Drumod beside the 187 other Irish towns of 500 to 1,000 people
Towns of a similar size, with the schools in or within 3 km of each; ordered by population, never ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castletownbere | 999 | 3 | 524 | 0 | 67% | 0.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Avoca | 757 | 1 | 172 | 0 | 0% | 6.7 km |
| Kilfinnane | 757 | 3 | 908 | 0 | 0% | 0.4 km |
| Killenaule | 755 | 2 | 495 | 0 | 100% | 0.2 km |
| Keenagh | 753 | 1 | 109 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Drumod | 753 | 2 | 284 | 0 | 0% | 7.8 km |
| An Bun Beag | 749 | 6 | 913 | 6 | 100% | 3.3 km |
| Ballyhaise | 748 | 2 | 335 | 0 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| Corrofin | 745 | 3 | 466 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| Loughshinny | 741 | 10 | 3,960 | 1 | 10% | 3.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 83 of the other 187 towns than around Drumod. Within 3 km, 16 of these 188 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Drumod
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drumod | 2 | 284 | 0 | 0% | 7.8 km |
| Mohill 7.9 km | 3 | 788 | 0 | 33% | 0.5 km |
| Drumlish 11 km | 1 | 215 | 0 | 100% | 10 km |
| Carrick-On-Shannon 15 km | 5 | 1,575 | 1 | 0% | 0.2 km |
| Longford 17 km | 12 | 3,607 | 1 | 83% | 0.2 km |
Carrick-On-Shannon has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Of Drumod’s neighbours, Mohill saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+27%) and Drumlish the least (−7%); Drumod itself: +27%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Drumod 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 Drumod
How many schools are there in Drumod?
In Drumod or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 284 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Drumod that teach through Irish?
None in Drumod or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Drumod?
Not in Drumod or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Mohill Community College, 7.8 km away.
What is the best school in Drumod?
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 Drumod?
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).