Few schools around Fedamore teach through Irish: 0%, below Co. Limerick’s towns and Irish towns
Set beside other towns, Fedamore comes out below both Co. Limerick’s towns (12%) and Irish towns (8%). Primary schools here average 20 pupils, against 175 across Ireland: small classes, often mixed ages. 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.
Where the 2 schools in and around Fedamore 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 Fedamore’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.
The 2 schools in and around Fedamore
Here are the schools in Fedamore or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. No letters and no results: Ireland publishes none school by school.
Teaching through Irish in and around Fedamore
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Fedamore teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Fedamore’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 Fedamore | Co. Limerick | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 25% | 25% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 7% | 6% |
| Girls | 40% | 48% | 49% |
Around Fedamore, 25% of pupils attend a school in DEIS, near Ireland’s 27% and Co. Limerick’s 25%. Set beside Ireland, girls stand out most: 40% against 49%. The largest DEIS school here is Fedamore CNS, with 10 pupils.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fedamore CNSPrimary | 10 | 30% | ✓ | |
| Carnane Mxd N.S.Primary | 30 | 43% |
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 Fedamore’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
1 of Fedamore’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Limerick and Clare ETB (1) and Bishop of Limerick (1). 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.
How children get a place in Fedamore
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
0 schools here have grown by 5% or more since 2019/20, 2 have shrunk by as much, out of 2; 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.
Inspection reports for Fedamore’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
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 2 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Fedamore CNSPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Carnane Mxd 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 Fedamore
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 Fedamore is Colaiste Chiarain, an ETB school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colaiste ChiarainETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 821 | 7.6 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Fedamore beside the 169 other Irish towns of 300 to 500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Sneem | 386 | 1 | 75 | 0 | 100% | 21 km |
| Culdaff | 385 | 1 | 108 | 0 | 100% | 7.9 km |
| Ballinderreen | 383 | 1 | 182 | 0 | 0% | 5.7 km |
| Durrus | 381 | 2 | 101 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| Fedamore | 381 | 2 | 40 | 0 | 50% | 7.7 km |
| Gormanston | 380 | 7 | 2,680 | 1 | 14% | 0.3 km |
| Turlough | 379 | 1 | 45 | 0 | 0% | 5.6 km |
| Newtownsandes | 378 | 1 | 78 | 0 | 0% | 8.6 km |
| Glencullen | 376 | 3 | 683 | 0 | 0% | 4.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
Among the 169 other towns, 166 have more pupils at their schools than Fedamore does. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 16 of the 170.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Fedamore
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Fedamore had 94 pupils in 2015/16 and 40 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Fedamore
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 Fedamore
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fedamore | 2 | 40 | 0 | 50% | 7.7 km |
| Croom 8.2 km | 2 | 990 | 0 | 100% | 1 km |
| Dooradoyle 10 km | 42 | 13,180 | 5 | 36% | 1 km |
| Caherconlish 10 km | 3 | 470 | 0 | 0% | 9.1 km |
| Rathbane 11 km | 52 | 19,628 | 7 | 33% | 1.5 km |
| Ballinacurra 12 km | 48 | 15,810 | 6 | 46% | 0.8 km |
| Prospect and Newtown Pery 12 km | 46 | 15,489 | 5 | 48% | 0.7 km |
Rathbane has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 7.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Fedamore 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 Fedamore
How many schools are there in Fedamore?
In Fedamore or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 40 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Fedamore that teach through Irish?
None in Fedamore or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Fedamore?
Not in Fedamore or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Colaiste Chiarain, 7.7 km away.
What is the best school in Fedamore?
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 Fedamore?
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).