Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0One of the secondary schools around Corbally and King's Island charges fees: Villiers Secondary School
58% of the post-primary schools around Corbally and King's Island take only girls or only boys, above both Co. Limerick’s towns (54%) and Irish towns (39%). 7 of its 12 secondary schools take only boys or only girls. 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 Corbally and King's Island’s schools
One fee-paying secondary school
One secondary school within reach charges fees; the others are free. The fee-paying one: Villiers Secondary School (508). Every school ↓
Mostly single-sex at secondary
Most secondary schools here take only boys or only girls; the mixed ones are marked on the cards below. Single-sex: Laurel Hill Secondary School FCJ (746), Ardscoil Ris (728), St Munchin's College (682) and Ardscoil Mhuire (591), and 3 more. Every school ↓
A wide choice at twelve
15 post-primary schools lie within 10 km, so families here have a real choice at twelve; each admits on its own policy. The nearest: Ardscoil Mhuire (0.2 km), Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh (0.7 km) and St Munchin's College (1.2 km). Post-primary choices ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
The 45 schools in and around Corbally and King's Island
Each school in or within 3 km of Corbally and King's Island links to a page of its own. No letters, no results: Irish schools aren’t ranked one by one.
Show all 29 primary schools
Where the 45 schools in and around Corbally and King's Island 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 Corbally and King's Island’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 Corbally and King's Island
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
6 of Corbally and King's Island’s 45 schools teach every subject through Irish: Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh, Gaelscoil Sairseal and Gaelscoil Sheoirse.
Who Corbally and King's Island’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.
DEIS by stage: pupils at DEIS schools
| Share of pupils | Around Corbally and King's Island | Co. Limerick | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 39% | 25% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 15% | 7% | 6% |
| Girls | 48% | 48% | 49% |
| Post-primary pupils at single-sex schools | 57% | 23% | 29% |
| Post-primary pupils at fee-paying schools | 8% | 4% | 6% |
DEIS schools teach 39% of the pupils around Corbally and King's Island, a larger share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Limerick: 25%). Where this area differs most from Ireland is post-primary pupils at single-sex schools, at 57% against 29%. Thomond Community College, with 597 pupils, is the largest school here in DEIS.
Each of the 45 schools
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 Corbally and King's Island’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
39 of Corbally and King's Island’s 45 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Limerick (29), Limerick & Clare ETB (2) and CEIST (2). 22 of the 45 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 12 patrons of Corbally and King's Island’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
Of the 45 schools around Corbally and King's Island, 29 have Bishop of Limerick as patron, teaching 54% of the pupils; 12 patrons in all. The local Education and Training Board runs 2. Educate Together runs 2.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of LimerickScoil Moin A Lin, St Munchin's College, Scoil Ide, Milford Grange N School, St Brigids, Corpus Christi, Gaelscoil Sairseal, Scoil Mathair de, Salesian Primary School, Our Lady Queen of Peace School, S.N. an Phairtin Mixed, Presentation Primary School, Scoil Chriost Ri B, Catherine Mc Auley Sp S, S N Muire na hEireann, St Johns Convent, Scoil Iosagain, J F K Memorial School, Thomond Primary School, Scoil Padraig Naofa B, Scoil Padraig Naofa C, Le Chéile, Our Lady of Lourdes, St Mary's, St Michaels, Gaelscoil Sheoirse, St John the Baptist Boys, Mid West School for the Deaf, St Augustines Spec Sch | Catholic | 29 | 8,458 |
| Limerick & Clare ETBGaelcholáiste Luimnigh, Thomond | Inter-denominational, Multi-denominational | 2 | 1,203 |
| Edmund Rice Schools TrustArdscoil Ris, Colaiste Mhichil | Catholic | 2 | 1,077 |
| Le Chéile Schools TrustLaurel Hill Secondary School FCJ, Laurel Hill Coláiste FCJ | Catholic | 2 | 1,061 |
| Educate TogetherLimerick City East, Limerick School Project | Multi-denominational | 2 | 1,014 |
| CEISTArdscoil Mhuire, Coláiste Nano Nagle | Catholic | 2 | 956 |
| Minister for Education & SkillsAn Mhodh Scoil | Catholic | 1 | 578 |
| Board of Governors of Villiers Secondary SchoolVilliers | Church of Ireland | 1 | 508 |
| An Foras PátrúnachtaGaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh | Catholic | 1 | 412 |
| Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorist Fathers)St Clements College | Catholic | 1 | 411 |
| Bishop of Limerick, Killaloe & Ardfert COISt Michaels | Church of Ireland | 1 | 116 |
| Health Service ExecutiveSt Canices Special School | Catholic | 1 | 7 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Corbally and King's Island
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. The fee-paying school here sets its own fees and admissions.
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; each school’s admission policy and notice are on its own website.
Which schools are growing
Since 2019/20, 12 of these 41 schools have grown by 5% or more and 17 have shrunk as much; across Ireland the number of pupils changed by +5%.
All 41 schools
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 Corbally and King's Island’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, none rated
Each school is visited by inspectors from time to time, for a whole-school evaluation of teaching, learning and leadership, for one subject, or to follow up earlier advice, and every report is posted 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 45 schools below each link their own.
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Corbally and King's Island
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Families in Corbally and King's Island have 15 post-primary schools within 10 km: 10 voluntary secondary schools, 4 ETB schools and one comprehensive school. 7 teach girls and boys apart: 3 girls’ and 4 boys’ schools. One of them charges fees. Every subject is taught through Irish at 2 of them.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardscoil MhuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | DEIS | 591 | 0.2 km |
| Gaelcholáiste LuimnighETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | Gaelcholáiste | 606 | 0.7 km |
| St Munchin's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 682 | 1.2 km |
| Coláiste Nano NagleVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | DEIS | 365 | 1.3 km |
| Colaiste MhichilVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | DEIS | 349 | 1.4 km |
| Ardscoil RisVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 728 | 1.9 km |
| St Clements CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | DEIS | 411 | 2.3 km |
| Laurel Hill Coláiste FCJVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | Gaelcholáiste | 315 | 2.4 km |
| Thomond Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 597 | 2.4 km |
| Laurel Hill Secondary School FCJVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | – | 746 | 2.5 km |
| Villiers Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Church of Ireland | Girls and boys | Fee-paying, Boarding | 508 | 3.1 km |
| Limerick City East Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 811 | 3.3 km |
All 15 post-primary schools within reach
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent College ComprehensiveComprehensive · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 922 | 4.2 km |
| Castletroy CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,360 | 5.1 km |
| Mungret Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 991 | 6.7 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Corbally and King's Island
4 special schools serve the area: St Augustines Spec Sch, St Canices Special School, Mid West School for the Deaf and Catherine Mc Auley Sp S, 353 pupils between them. 19 of the 29 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.
Corbally and King's Island beside the 84 other Irish towns of 9,900 to 19,200 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esker | 19,110 | 56 | 23,239 | 6 | 34% | 0.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ballyowen | 14,739 | 68 | 31,032 | 6 | 32% | 1 km |
| Darndale | 14,675 | 85 | 23,703 | 7 | 49% | 1 km |
| Bishopstown | 14,529 | 54 | 18,909 | 6 | 50% | 0.3 km |
| Killarney | 14,412 | 12 | 4,102 | 1 | 8% | 0.8 km |
| Corbally and King's Island | 14,213 | 45 | 15,801 | 6 | 49% | 0.2 km |
| Cobh | 14,148 | 13 | 3,613 | 1 | 23% | 0.8 km |
| Clonskeagh | 14,142 | 106 | 39,846 | 10 | 10% | 0.3 km |
| Midleton | 13,906 | 10 | 5,560 | 1 | 10% | 0.3 km |
| Cabra East | 13,895 | 157 | 40,651 | 10 | 63% | 0.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Churchtown | 10,044 | 106 | 41,500 | 9 | 13% | 0.2 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 50 of the other 84 towns than around Corbally and King's Island. Every one of them has an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Corbally and King's Island
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 Corbally and King's Island had 14,534 pupils in 2015/16 and 15,801 in 2025/26. Limerick City East Secondary School grew most: +587% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Corbally and King's Island
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 Corbally and King's Island
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corbally and King's Island | 45 | 15,801 | 6 | 49% | 0.2 km |
| Limerick City Centre 1.3 km | 43 | 14,494 | 5 | 51% | 0.4 km |
| Westbury 1.5 km | 29 | 9,896 | 3 | 55% | 0.9 km |
| Galvone 1.6 km | 48 | 16,815 | 5 | 46% | 0.6 km |
| Garryowen 1.7 km | 41 | 14,084 | 6 | 44% | 1 km |
| Farranshone 1.9 km | 49 | 16,369 | 6 | 47% | 0.4 km |
| Dock 2 km | 45 | 15,206 | 5 | 49% | 0.3 km |
Since 2019/20 the pupils around Corbally and King's Island changed by +3%; among its neighbours, Westbury’s grew most (+8%) and Dock’s least (−1%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Corbally and King's Island 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 Corbally and King's Island
How many schools are there in Corbally and King's Island?
In Corbally and King's Island or within 3 km of it: 29 primary schools, 12 secondary schools and 4 special schools, with 15,801 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Corbally and King's Island that teach through Irish?
Yes, 6: Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh, Gaelscoil Sairseal and Gaelscoil Sheoirse teach every subject through Irish.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Corbally and King's Island?
1 of the 12: Villiers Secondary School. The others are free.
What is the best school in Corbally and King's Island?
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 Corbally and King's Island?
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).