Photo: Antony Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Ballyneety, only 0% of schools are in DEIS, fewer than around Co. Limerick’s towns or Irish towns
In the comparison, Ballyneety comes below both Co. Limerick’s towns (46%) and Irish towns (35%). All 3 of its schools are Catholic: there is no other kind within 3 km. 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 Ballyneety’s schools
A wide choice at twelve
Within 10 km of the town there are 10 post-primary schools to choose from, of different kinds; each sets its own admission policy, and many families apply to several. The nearest: Limerick City East Secondary School (7 km), Castletroy College (7.9 km) and Crescent College Comprehensive (7.9 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 3 schools in and around Ballyneety 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 Ballyneety’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 Ballyneety’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Ballyneety’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Limerick (2) and Archbishop of Cashel & Emly (1). None of the 3 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 Ballyneety
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 3 schools in and around Ballyneety teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Ballyneety’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, 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 Ballyneety | Co. Limerick | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 25% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 7% | 6% |
| Girls | 42% | 48% | 49% |
Around Ballyneety, 0% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 25% in Co. Limerick. The biggest difference from Ireland is in girls: 42% here, 49% there.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knockea National SchoolPrimary | 191 | 47% | ||
| Carnane Mxd N.S.Primary | 30 | 43% | ||
| Bohermore N.S.Primary | 100 | 34% |
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 Ballyneety’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
2 patrons run the 3 schools around Ballyneety; the largest, Bishop of Limerick, has 2 of them and 69% of the pupils.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of LimerickKnockea, Carnane Mxd | Catholic | 2 | 221 |
| Archbishop of Cashel & EmlyBohermore | Catholic | 1 | 100 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Ballyneety
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
1 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 2 have shrunk by as much, out of 3; across Ireland: +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 Ballyneety
Each school in or within 3 km of Ballyneety links to a page of its own. You won’t find letters or results below: Ireland publishes none for single schools.
Inspection reports for Ballyneety’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
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 3 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Knockea National SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Carnane Mxd N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Bohermore 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 Ballyneety
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Within 10 km of Ballyneety there are 10 post-primary schools: 7 voluntary secondary schools, 2 ETB schools and one comprehensive school. Of these, 5 are single-sex: 3 for girls and 2 for boys. Every subject is taught through Irish at 2 of them.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limerick City East Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 811 | 7 km |
| Castletroy CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,360 | 7.9 km |
| Crescent College ComprehensiveComprehensive · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 922 | 7.9 km |
| Colaiste MhichilVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | DEIS | 349 | 8.9 km |
| Coláiste Nano NagleVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | DEIS | 365 | 9 km |
| Gaelcholáiste LuimnighETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 606 | 9.2 km |
| Laurel Hill Coláiste FCJVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | Gaelcholáiste | 315 | 9.3 km |
| Laurel Hill Secondary School FCJVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 746 | 9.3 km |
| St Clements CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | DEIS | 411 | 9.3 km |
| Ardscoil MhuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | DEIS | 591 | 9.7 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Ballyneety
No special school is in or near Ballyneety. 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.
Ballyneety beside the 215 other Irish towns of 400 to 800 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crinkill | 795 | 7 | 1,708 | 1 | 86% | 3.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Na Dúnaibh | 601 | 2 | 202 | 1 | 100% | 14 km |
| Freshford | 593 | 2 | 244 | 0 | 50% | 10 km |
| Fahan | 589 | 1 | 189 | 0 | 0% | 4.9 km |
| Killala | 587 | 3 | 191 | 0 | 67% | 4.9 km |
| Ballyneety | 586 | 3 | 321 | 0 | 0% | 7 km |
| Lackaghbeg | 576 | 2 | 296 | 0 | 0% | 4.7 km |
| Ringaskiddy-Loughbeg | 575 | 11 | 3,287 | 0 | 18% | 3.4 km |
| Shercock | 574 | 2 | 217 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Fieries | 573 | 2 | 303 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Oilgate | 401 | 2 | 152 | 0 | 100% | 6.2 km |
Of the other 215 towns, 83 have more pupils at the schools around them than Ballyneety. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 18 of the 216.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Ballyneety
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 Ballyneety had 310 pupils in 2015/16 and 321 in 2025/26. Bohermore N.S. grew most: +233% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Ballyneety
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 Ballyneety
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyneety | 3 | 321 | 0 | 0% | 7 km |
| Caherconlish 5.1 km | 3 | 470 | 0 | 0% | 9.1 km |
| Rathbane 7.4 km | 52 | 19,628 | 7 | 33% | 1.5 km |
| Castletroy 7.9 km | 29 | 10,543 | 3 | 52% | 1.3 km |
| Annacotty 8 km | 8 | 4,443 | 1 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Dooradoyle 8.2 km | 42 | 13,180 | 5 | 36% | 1 km |
| Garryowen 8.2 km | 41 | 14,084 | 6 | 44% | 1 km |
Rathbane has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 7. Of Ballyneety’s neighbours, Annacotty saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+19%) and Caherconlish the least (−8%); Ballyneety itself: +12%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Ballyneety 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 Ballyneety
How many schools are there in Ballyneety?
In Ballyneety or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, with 321 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Ballyneety that teach through Irish?
None in Ballyneety or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Ballyneety?
Not in Ballyneety or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Limerick City East Secondary School, 7 km away.
What is the best school in Ballyneety?
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 Ballyneety?
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).