Photo: Padraigobrian · CC BY-SA 3.0The schools around Ballylanders have fewer pupils than in 2019/20: −15%, below Co. Limerick’s towns and Irish towns
That puts Ballylanders below both Co. Limerick’s towns (+3%) and Irish towns (+4%). Its schools have 151 pupils, 15% fewer than in 2019/20. 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 Ballylanders’s schools
Fewer pupils than before
Pupil numbers at the schools here have fallen since 2019/20, against +5% across Ireland. Pupils over time ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Ballylanders 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 Ballylanders’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 Ballylanders
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 Ballylanders had 191 pupils in 2015/16 and 151 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Ballylanders
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 Ballylanders’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Ballylanders’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Archbishop of Cashel & Emly (2). 1 of the 2 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 Ballylanders
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Ballylanders teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Ballylanders’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Limerick’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Ballylanders | Co. Limerick | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 85% | 25% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 7% | 6% |
| Girls | 43% | 48% | 49% |
85% of the pupils around Ballylanders are at a DEIS school, more than the 27% across Ireland (25% in Co. Limerick). The biggest difference from Ireland is in girls: 43% here, 49% there. Of the DEIS schools here, Ballylanders N.S. is the biggest: 128 pupils.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballylanders N.S.Primary | 128 | 42% | ✓ | |
| Glenbrohane N.S.Primary | 23 | 48% |
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 Ballylanders
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 2 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 2 schools in and around Ballylanders
Each school in or within 3 km of Ballylanders links to a page of its own. You won’t find letters or results below: Ireland publishes none for single schools.
Inspection reports for Ballylanders’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
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 2 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Ballylanders N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Glenbrohane 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 Ballylanders
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 Ballylanders is Scoil Pól, a voluntary secondary school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil PólVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 715 | 8.6 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Ballylanders beside the 297 other Irish towns of 200 to 500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ballinlough | 343 | 2 | 115 | 0 | 100% | 10 km |
| Murntown | 342 | 2 | 468 | 0 | 0% | 4.7 km |
| Tinryland | 338 | 2 | 675 | 1 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| Emly | 338 | 1 | 122 | 0 | 100% | 5.6 km |
| Ballylanders | 337 | 2 | 151 | 0 | 50% | 8.7 km |
| Kilmeaden | 334 | 1 | 214 | 0 | 0% | 6.7 km |
| Drumkeen | 333 | 1 | 118 | 0 | 0% | 6.7 km |
| Ballysimon | 331 | 1 | 125 | 0 | 0% | 6 km |
| Clonroche | 329 | 1 | 107 | 0 | 100% | 6.3 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 141 of the other 297 towns than around Ballylanders. Within 3 km, 23 of these 298 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Ballylanders
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballylanders | 2 | 151 | 0 | 50% | 8.7 km |
| Mitchelstown 13 km | 5 | 1,646 | 0 | 40% | 0.4 km |
| Kilmallock 16 km | 2 | 786 | 0 | 100% | 0.3 km |
| Tipperary 17 km | 8 | 2,079 | 1 | 75% | 0.4 km |
Tipperary has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. The roll around Ballylanders moved −15% since 2019/20; nearby, Tipperary grew most (+20%) and Mitchelstown least (+12%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Ballylanders 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 Ballylanders
How many schools are there in Ballylanders?
In Ballylanders or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 151 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Ballylanders that teach through Irish?
None in Ballylanders or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Ballylanders?
Not in Ballylanders or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Scoil Pól, 8.7 km away.
What is the best school in Ballylanders?
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 Ballylanders?
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).