Photo: Jo Hopkinson · CC BY-SA 2.0More of the schools around Keel-Dooagh are in DEIS than around Co. Mayo’s towns or Irish towns: 100%
Around Keel-Dooagh, 100% of schools are in DEIS, above both Co. Mayo’s towns (18%) and Irish towns (35%). DEIS, the extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas, reaches 2 of its 2 schools; across Ireland, 30%. Nothing here grades or ranks these schools: Ireland publishes no results school by school, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
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 Keel-Dooagh’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: S.N. Dumhach (28) and Dookinella N.S. (26). Who runs them ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Where the 2 schools in and around Keel-Dooagh 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 Keel-Dooagh’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 Keel-Dooagh’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Keel-Dooagh’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Archbishop of Tuam (2). 2 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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Keel-Dooagh
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Keel-Dooagh teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Keel-Dooagh’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Mayo’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Keel-Dooagh | Co. Mayo | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 100% | 37% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 5% | 6% |
| Girls | 57% | 48% | 49% |
100% of the pupils around Keel-Dooagh are at a DEIS school, more than the 27% across Ireland (37% in Co. Mayo). Where this area differs most from Ireland is girls, at 57% against 49%. S.N. Dumhach, with 28 pupils, is the largest school here in DEIS.
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. DumhachPrimary | 28 | 61% | ✓ | |
| Dookinella N.S.Primary | 26 | 54% | ✓ |
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 Keel-Dooagh
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, 1 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.
The 2 schools in and around Keel-Dooagh
Every school in Keel-Dooagh or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Ireland doesn’t publish results for individual schools, so none of these carries a letter.
Inspection reports for Keel-Dooagh’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
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 2 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. DumhachPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Dookinella 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 Keel-Dooagh
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
No post-primary school is within 10 km of Keel-Dooagh; the nearest is Coláiste Pobail Acla, 14 km away.
Keel-Dooagh beside the 215 other Irish towns of 400 to 800 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crinkill | 795 | 7 | 1,708 | 1 | 86% | 3.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Ballingarry | 570 | 1 | 204 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Grange | 569 | 3 | 611 | 0 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Clonmany | 569 | 2 | 228 | 0 | 100% | 9.5 km |
| Bun Na Leaca | 569 | 2 | 545 | 2 | 100% | 3 km |
| Keel-Dooagh | 567 | 2 | 54 | 0 | 100% | 14 km |
| Clogheen | 564 | 1 | 81 | 0 | 100% | 13 km |
| Carrignavar | 563 | 2 | 778 | 0 | 0% | 0.7 km |
| Rathard-Aherla | 562 | 2 | 246 | 0 | 0% | 7.7 km |
| The Ballagh | 560 | 2 | 270 | 0 | 50% | 9.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Oilgate | 401 | 2 | 152 | 0 | 100% | 6.2 km |
Among the 215 other towns, 213 have more pupils at their schools than Keel-Dooagh does. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 18 of the 216.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Keel-Dooagh
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 Keel-Dooagh had 73 pupils in 2015/16 and 54 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Keel-Dooagh
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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Keel-Dooagh 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 Keel-Dooagh
How many schools are there in Keel-Dooagh?
In Keel-Dooagh or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 54 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Keel-Dooagh that teach through Irish?
None in Keel-Dooagh or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Keel-Dooagh?
Not in Keel-Dooagh or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Coláiste Pobail Acla, 14 km away.
What is the best school in Keel-Dooagh?
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 Keel-Dooagh?
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).