Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Few schools around Mountcollins teach through Irish: 0%, below Co. Limerick’s towns and Irish towns
That leaves Mountcollins below both Co. Limerick’s towns (12%) and Irish towns (8%). 2 of its 3 schools are in DEIS, the extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas, against 30% across Ireland. Nothing here grades or ranks these schools: Ireland publishes no results school by school, 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 Mountcollins’s schools
Extra support for many schools
Many schools here are in DEIS, which gives schools in disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and help; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. In DEIS: Scoil Mhuire (31) and Scoil Naomh Mhuire (13). Who runs them ↓
From the Department of Education’s school lists: facts, not judgements of how well a school teaches.
Where the 3 schools in and around Mountcollins 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 Mountcollins’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 Mountcollins’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Mountcollins’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Limerick (2) and Bishop of Kerry (1). 2 of the 3 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Mountcollins
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 3 schools in and around Mountcollins teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Mountcollins’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 Mountcollins | Co. Limerick | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 30% | 25% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 7% | 6% |
| Girls | 50% | 48% | 49% |
Around Mountcollins, 30% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 25% in Co. Limerick. Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 0% against 6%. The largest DEIS school here is Scoil Mhuire, with 31 pupils.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil Naomh MhuirePrimary | 13 | 54% | ✓ | |
| Meenkilly N.S.Primary | 101 | 51% | ||
| Scoil MhuirePrimary | 31 | 42% | ✓ |
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 Mountcollins’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
2 patrons run the 3 schools around Mountcollins; the largest, Bishop of Limerick, has 2 of them and 79% of the pupils.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of LimerickMeenkilly, Scoil Naomh Mhuire | Catholic | 2 | 114 |
| Bishop of KerryScoil Mhuire | Catholic | 1 | 31 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Mountcollins
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
Since 2019/20, 1 of these 2 schools have grown by 5% or more and 1 have shrunk as much; across Ireland the number of 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.
The 3 schools in and around Mountcollins
Every school in Mountcollins or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Letters and results are missing here for a reason: Ireland publishes neither school by school.
Inspection reports for Mountcollins’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 3 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Scoil Naomh MhuirePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Meenkilly N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil MhuirePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Mountcollins
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Mountcollins is Coláiste Íde agus Iosaef, an ETB school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coláiste Íde agus IosaefETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 669 | 9.2 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Mountcollins beside the 128 other Irish towns of 200 to 300 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Keshcarrigan | 238 | 1 | 142 | 0 | 100% | 7.4 km |
| Brannockstown | 235 | 1 | 83 | 0 | 0% | 4.1 km |
| Béal Átha An Ghaorthaidh | 235 | 2 | 207 | 2 | 0% | 0.3 km |
| Easky | 235 | 2 | 287 | 0 | 100% | 0.5 km |
| Mountcollins | 234 | 3 | 145 | 0 | 67% | 9.2 km |
| Lemybrien | 234 | 1 | 102 | 0 | 100% | 7.9 km |
| Cill Rónáin | 234 | 2 | 95 | 2 | 50% | 0.3 km |
| Pollagh | 231 | 1 | 64 | 0 | 100% | 7.2 km |
| Broadford | 231 | 1 | 141 | 0 | 0% | 4.9 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
Of the other 128 towns, 54 have more pupils at the schools around them than Mountcollins. 7 of the 129 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Mountcollins
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Mountcollins had 149 pupils in 2015/16 and 145 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Mountcollins
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 Mountcollins
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountcollins | 3 | 145 | 0 | 67% | 9.2 km |
| Abbeyfeale 8.8 km | 5 | 1,060 | 0 | 40% | 0.7 km |
| Newcastle West 18 km | 8 | 2,648 | 1 | 38% | 0.6 km |
| Castleisland 19 km | 7 | 1,283 | 1 | 29% | 0.3 km |
| Newmarket 19 km | 2 | 224 | 0 | 0% | 7.2 km |
Newcastle West has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Mountcollins changed by −6%; among its neighbours, Castleisland’s grew most (+12%) and Newmarket’s least (−18%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Mountcollins 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 Mountcollins
How many schools are there in Mountcollins?
In Mountcollins or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, with 145 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Mountcollins that teach through Irish?
None in Mountcollins or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Mountcollins?
Not in Mountcollins or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Coláiste Íde agus Iosaef, 9.2 km away.
What is the best school in Mountcollins?
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 Mountcollins?
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).