Photo: Des Colhoun · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer single-sex secondaries around Mohill than around Irish towns: 0%
That leaves Mohill below Irish towns (39%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, Mohill Community College, has 531 pupils. Nothing here grades or ranks these schools: Ireland publishes no results school by school, 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 Mohill’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
Mohill Community College has grown from 384 pupils in 2019/20 to 531, the fastest of the schools here. Getting a place ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Pupil numbers around Mohill
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Mohill had 585 pupils in 2015/16 and 788 in 2025/26. Mohill Community College grew most: +38% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Mohill
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 3 schools in and around Mohill
Every school in Mohill 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 3 schools in and around Mohill 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 Mohill’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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Mohill
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 3 schools in and around Mohill teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Mohill’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 Mohill | Co. Leitrim | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 30% | 18% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 4% | 6% |
| Girls | 51% | 49% | 49% |
Around Mohill, 30% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 18% in Co. Leitrim. Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 0% against 6%. The largest DEIS school here is Mohill N.S., with 239 pupils.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohill Community CollegePost-primary · ETB | 531 | 52% | ||
| Mohill N.S.Primary | 239 | 51% | ✓ | |
| The Hunt N.S.Primary | 18 | 44% |
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 Mohill’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
1 of Mohill’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Mayo, Sligo & Leitrim ETB (1), Bishop of Ardagh & Clonmacnoise (1) and Bishop of Kilmore Elphin & Ardagh COI (1). 1 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.
The 3 patrons of Mohill’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 Mohill, 1 have Mayo, Sligo & Leitrim ETB as patron, teaching 67% of the pupils; 3 patrons in all. One is an ETB school.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayo, Sligo & Leitrim ETBMohill | Multi-denominational | 1 | 531 |
| Bishop of Ardagh & ClonmacnoiseMohill | Catholic | 1 | 239 |
| Bishop of Kilmore Elphin & Ardagh COIThe Hunt | Church of Ireland | 1 | 18 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Mohill
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 3 schools, 2 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 1 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.
Inspection reports for Mohill’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 |
|---|---|
| Mohill Community CollegePost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Mohill N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| The Hunt 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 Mohill
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Mohill 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 | 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 Mohill
No special school is in or near Mohill. 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.
Mohill beside the 168 other Irish towns of 700 to 1,400 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moville | 1,390 | 5 | 1,100 | 1 | 40% | 0.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Béal An Mhuirthead | 1,042 | 4 | 807 | 0 | 100% | 0.6 km |
| Tinahely | 1,037 | 3 | 272 | 0 | 0% | 9.7 km |
| Craughwell | 1,034 | 2 | 426 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Knock | 1,029 | 1 | 152 | 0 | 100% | 7.8 km |
| Mohill | 1,027 | 3 | 788 | 0 | 33% | 0.5 km |
| Tallow | 1,022 | 2 | 184 | 0 | 50% | 6.3 km |
| Lehinch | 1,018 | 5 | 1,110 | 1 | 40% | 2.8 km |
| Ballinagh | 1,012 | 2 | 321 | 0 | 100% | 6.8 km |
| Newcastle | 1,010 | 5 | 1,475 | 0 | 20% | 3.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Shanagarry | 700 | 2 | 201 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 49 of the other 168 towns than around Mohill. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 20 of the 169.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Mohill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohill | 3 | 788 | 0 | 33% | 0.5 km |
| Drumlish 13 km | 1 | 215 | 0 | 100% | 10 km |
| Carrick-On-Shannon 15 km | 5 | 1,575 | 1 | 0% | 0.2 km |
| Ballinamore 15 km | 2 | 573 | 0 | 50% | 1.1 km |
| Drumshanbo 18 km | 2 | 752 | 0 | 0% | 0.8 km |
Carrick-On-Shannon has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Mohill changed by +27%; among its neighbours, Drumshanbo’s grew most (+46%) and Drumlish’s least (−7%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Mohill 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 Mohill
How many schools are there in Mohill?
In Mohill or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 788 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Mohill that teach through Irish?
None in Mohill or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Mohill?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Mohill?
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 Mohill?
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).