Fewer single-sex secondaries around Drumcollogher than around Co. Limerick’s towns or Irish towns: 0%
For Drumcollogher, that is below both Co. Limerick’s towns (54%) and Irish towns (39%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, Hazelwood College, has 562 pupils. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
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.
The 4 schools in and around Drumcollogher
Here are the schools in Drumcollogher or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. Letters and results are missing here for a reason: Ireland publishes neither school by school.
Where the 4 schools in and around Drumcollogher 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 Drumcollogher’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 Drumcollogher
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 4 schools in and around Drumcollogher teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Drumcollogher’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against 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 Drumcollogher | Co. Limerick | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 4% | 25% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 7% | 6% |
| Girls | 49% | 48% | 49% |
4% of the pupils around Drumcollogher are at a DEIS school, fewer than the 27% across Ireland (25% in Co. Limerick). Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 0% against 6%. The largest DEIS school here is Tullylease Mixed N.S., with 33 pupils.
Each of the 4 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St JosephsPrimary | 74 | 51% | ||
| Hazelwood CollegePost-primary · ETB | 562 | 49% | ||
| S.N. Ath an MhuillinnPrimary | 78 | 49% | ||
| Tullylease Mixed N.S.Primary | 33 | 55% | ✓ |
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 Drumcollogher’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Drumcollogher’s 4 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Cloyne (2), Bishop of Limerick (1) and Limerick & Clare ETB (1). 1 of the 4 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 Drumcollogher’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
Of the 4 schools around Drumcollogher, 2 have Bishop of Cloyne as patron, teaching 15% of the pupils; 3 patrons in all. An Education and Training Board runs one of them.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of CloyneS.N. Ath an Mhuillinn, Tullylease Mixed | Catholic | 2 | 111 |
| Limerick & Clare ETBHazelwood College | Multi-denominational | 1 | 562 |
| Bishop of LimerickSt Josephs | Catholic | 1 | 74 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Drumcollogher
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 4 schools, 1 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 2 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 Drumcollogher’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 JosephsPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Hazelwood CollegePost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Ath an MhuillinnPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Tullylease Mixed 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 Drumcollogher
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 Drumcollogher is Hazelwood College, an ETB school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hazelwood CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 562 | 0.6 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Drumcollogher beside the 166 other Irish towns of 400 to 700 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanagarry | 700 | 2 | 201 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| … | ||||||
| Knockraha | 517 | 1 | 147 | 0 | 0% | 4.3 km |
| Kildimo | 512 | 1 | 138 | 0 | 0% | 4.2 km |
| Foynes | 512 | 1 | 99 | 0 | 0% | 6.9 km |
| Castletownroche | 509 | 1 | 102 | 0 | 0% | 9.9 km |
| Drumcollogher | 509 | 4 | 747 | 0 | 25% | 0.6 km |
| Tagoat | 507 | 3 | 468 | 0 | 67% | 11 km |
| Barntown | 505 | 4 | 2,030 | 0 | 25% | 3.4 km |
| Glenville | 501 | 1 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 7.7 km |
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Oilgate | 401 | 2 | 152 | 0 | 100% | 6.2 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 22 of the other 166 towns than around Drumcollogher. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 12 of the 167.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Drumcollogher
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 Drumcollogher had 809 pupils in 2015/16 and 747 in 2025/26, fewer than before. Tullylease Mixed N.S. grew most: +57% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Drumcollogher
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 Drumcollogher
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drumcollogher | 4 | 747 | 0 | 25% | 0.6 km |
| Charleville 15 km | 6 | 1,334 | 0 | 50% | 0.3 km |
| Newmarket 15 km | 2 | 224 | 0 | 0% | 7.2 km |
| Newcastle West 16 km | 8 | 2,648 | 1 | 38% | 0.6 km |
| Kanturk 17 km | 3 | 1,290 | 0 | 0% | 0.4 km |
Newcastle West has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Pupils around Drumcollogher: −4% since 2019/20. Among the neighbours, Kanturk led (+14%) and Newmarket trailed (−18%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Drumcollogher 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 Drumcollogher
How many schools are there in Drumcollogher?
In Drumcollogher or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 747 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Drumcollogher that teach through Irish?
None in Drumcollogher 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 Drumcollogher?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Drumcollogher?
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 Drumcollogher?
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).