Photo: Anbkm · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Moroe, 100% of the post-primary schools take only girls or only boys, above Co. Limerick’s towns and Irish towns
Around Moroe, single-sex schools make up 100% of the post-primaries, above both Co. Limerick’s towns (54%) and Irish towns (39%). Its schools have 345 pupils, 16% fewer than in 2019/20. 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 Moroe’s schools
One fee-paying secondary school
One secondary school within reach charges fees; the others are free. The fee-paying one: Glenstal Abbey School (203). Every school ↓
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.
The 2 schools in and around Moroe
Here are the schools in Moroe or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. You won’t find letters or results below: Ireland publishes none for single schools.
Pupil numbers around Moroe
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Moroe had 409 pupils in 2015/16 and 345 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Moroe
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 Moroe’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
2 of Moroe’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Archbishop of Cashel & Emly (1) and Glenstal Abbey School (1). None of the 2 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.
Where the 2 schools in and around Moroe 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 Moroe’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 Moroe
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
None of the 2 schools in and around Moroe teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Moroe’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 Moroe | Co. Limerick | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 25% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 7% | 6% |
| Girls | 19% | 48% | 49% |
DEIS schools teach 0% of the pupils around Moroe, a smaller share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Limerick: 25%). Where this area differs most from Ireland is girls, at 19% against 49%.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Ma RuaPrimary | 142 | 46% | ||
| Glenstal Abbey SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 203 | 0% |
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 Moroe
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
Of these 2 schools, 0 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 Moroe’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
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 |
|---|---|
| S.N. Ma RuaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Glenstal Abbey SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Moroe
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
Families in Moroe have 4 post-primary schools within 10 km: 2 voluntary secondary schools and 2 ETB schools. One of them is single-sex. One of them charges fees. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenstal Abbey SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | Fee-paying, Boarding | 203 | 1.3 km |
| St. Mary's Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 719 | 6.6 km |
| Newport CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 407 | 7.2 km |
| Castletroy CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,360 | 9.8 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Moroe beside the 128 other Irish towns of 1,000 to 1,900 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbeyleix | 1,897 | 2 | 353 | 0 | 0% | 4.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Swinford | 1,459 | 3 | 627 | 0 | 100% | 0.4 km |
| Foxford | 1,452 | 2 | 753 | 0 | 0% | 0.3 km |
| Slane | 1,445 | 1 | 254 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
| Aughrim | 1,437 | 2 | 326 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Moroe | 1,432 | 2 | 345 | 0 | 0% | 1.3 km |
| Ballyconnell | 1,422 | 3 | 292 | 0 | 0% | 6.6 km |
| Muff | 1,418 | 1 | 196 | 0 | 0% | 14 km |
| Oldcastle | 1,409 | 2 | 852 | 0 | 50% | 0.4 km |
| Stradbally | 1,404 | 2 | 375 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
| … | ||||||
| Carragh | 1,006 | 2 | 1,383 | 0 | 0% | 3.5 km |
Of these 128 other towns, 101 count more pupils at their schools than Moroe. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 15 of the 129.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Moroe
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moroe | 2 | 345 | 0 | 0% | 1.3 km |
| Newport 6.3 km | 4 | 1,527 | 0 | 25% | 0.4 km |
| Caherconlish 8.2 km | 3 | 470 | 0 | 0% | 9.1 km |
| Annacotty 9.4 km | 8 | 4,443 | 1 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Castleconnell 9.6 km | 2 | 536 | 0 | 0% | 5.9 km |
| Castletroy 11 km | 29 | 10,543 | 3 | 52% | 1.3 km |
| Garryowen 14 km | 41 | 14,084 | 6 | 44% | 1 km |
Garryowen has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 6. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Moroe changed by −16%; among its neighbours, Newport’s grew most (+22%) and Caherconlish’s least (−8%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Moroe 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 Moroe
How many schools are there in Moroe?
In Moroe or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school and 1 secondary school, with 345 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Moroe that teach through Irish?
None in Moroe 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 Moroe?
One of the 1: Glenstal Abbey School. The others are free.
What is the best school in Moroe?
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 Moroe?
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).