Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Most post-primaries around Manorhamilton take girls and boys: 0% are single-sex, below Irish towns
That puts Manorhamilton below Irish towns (39%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, St. Clare's Comprehensive School, has 504 pupils. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
Schools in the town or within 3 km of its outline, Department of Education lists for 2025/26; the Ireland figures cover all schools listed.
What stands out about Manorhamilton’s schools
More all-Irish schools than most places
Families here have more choice of a school that teaches every subject through Irish than in most of Ireland, where 8% of schools do. The school is Gaelscoil Chluainín (69). Language ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Teaching through Irish in and around Manorhamilton
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
1 of Manorhamilton’s 4 schools teach every subject through Irish: Gaelscoil Chluainín.
The 4 schools in and around Manorhamilton
Every school in Manorhamilton or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Results by school aren’t published in Ireland, so the cards carry none.
Where the 4 schools in and around Manorhamilton 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 Manorhamilton’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 Manorhamilton’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.
DEIS by stage: pupils at DEIS schools
| Share of pupils | Around Manorhamilton | Co. Leitrim | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 9% | 4% | 6% |
| Girls | 46% | 49% | 49% |
DEIS schools teach 0% of the pupils around Manorhamilton, a smaller share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Leitrim: 18%).
Each of the 4 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Clare's Comprehensive SchoolPost-primary · Comprehensive | 504 | 46% | ||
| St Clare's National SchoolPrimary | 204 | 45% | ||
| Gaelscoil ChluainínPrimary | 69 | 45% | ✓ | |
| Mastersons N.S.Primary | 34 | 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.
Who runs Manorhamilton’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Manorhamilton’s 4 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Minister for Education (1), Bishop of Kilmore (1) and An Foras Pátrúnachta (1). None of the 4 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.
The 4 patrons of Manorhamilton’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
Minister for Education is patron of 1 of the 4 schools around Manorhamilton, which teach 62% of their pupils; 4 patrons run them in all.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minister for EducationSt. Clare's Comprehensive School | Inter-denominational | 1 | 504 |
| Bishop of KilmoreSt Clare's | Catholic | 1 | 204 |
| An Foras PátrúnachtaGaelscoil Chluainín | Catholic | 1 | 69 |
| Bishop of Kilmore Elphin & Ardagh COIMastersons | Church of Ireland | 1 | 34 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Manorhamilton
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, 1 of the 4 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.
Inspection reports for Manorhamilton’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and 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 4 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| St. Clare's Comprehensive SchoolPost-primary · Comprehensive | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Clare's National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Gaelscoil ChluainínPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Mastersons 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 Manorhamilton
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 Manorhamilton is St. Clare's Comprehensive School, a comprehensive school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Clare's Comprehensive SchoolComprehensive · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 504 | 0.5 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Manorhamilton
No special school is in or near Manorhamilton. 1 of the 3 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.
Manorhamilton 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 |
| … | ||||||
| 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 |
| Ballybunion | 1,618 | 3 | 586 | 0 | 33% | 0.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Clonee | 1,205 | 25 | 12,320 | 2 | 28% | 1.3 km |
Of these 109 other towns, 41 count more pupils at their schools than Manorhamilton. Within 3 km, 16 of these 110 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Manorhamilton
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Manorhamilton had 816 pupils in 2015/16 and 811 in 2025/26, fewer than before. Mastersons N.S. grew most: +55% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Manorhamilton
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 Manorhamilton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manorhamilton | 4 | 811 | 1 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Kinlough 17 km | 3 | 898 | 0 | 33% | 3.2 km |
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Manorhamilton 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 Manorhamilton
How many schools are there in Manorhamilton?
In Manorhamilton or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 811 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Manorhamilton that teach through Irish?
Yes, 1: Gaelscoil Chluainín teach every subject through Irish.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Manorhamilton?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Manorhamilton?
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 Manorhamilton?
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).