DEIS support is less common around Clonbullogue: 0% of schools, below Co. Offaly’s towns and Irish towns
Measured that way, Clonbullogue is below both Co. Offaly’s towns (71%) and Irish towns (35%). Clonbullogue N.S. is a primary with 84 pupils. Nothing here grades or ranks these schools: Ireland publishes no results school by school, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
Every school in the town or within 3 km of its outline, from the Department of Education’s lists for 2025/26; Ireland’s figures are every school in the lists.
Where the school in or near Clonbullogue is
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 Clonbullogue’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 Clonbullogue
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 1 schools in and around Clonbullogue teaches every subject through Irish.
Who runs Clonbullogue’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
1 of Clonbullogue’s 1 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin (1). None of the 1 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.
How children get a place in Clonbullogue
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.
The school in and around Clonbullogue
Each school in or within 3 km of Clonbullogue links to a page of its own. No letters and no results: Ireland publishes none school by school.
Inspection reports for Clonbullogue’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; the link below opens the school’s own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Clonbullogue 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 Clonbullogue
Post-primary schools within 10 km of the town; children move at about twelve, and families apply to each school
3 post-primary schools are within 10 km of Clonbullogue: 2 ETB schools and one voluntary secondary school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardscoil Rath IomgháinETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 751 | 8 km |
| Oaklands Community CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 733 | 8.3 km |
| St Mary's Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 1,035 | 8.6 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Clonbullogue beside the 169 other Irish towns of 300 to 500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Inniskeen | 405 | 2 | 368 | 0 | 0% | 8.9 km |
| Nobber | 404 | 2 | 848 | 0 | 50% | 0.6 km |
| Cappawhite | 403 | 1 | 126 | 0 | 100% | 5.6 km |
| Cill Charthaigh | 403 | 1 | 111 | 1 | 100% | 3.7 km |
| Clonbullogue | 401 | 1 | 84 | 0 | 0% | 8 km |
| Oilgate | 401 | 2 | 152 | 0 | 100% | 6.2 km |
| Crossbarry | 399 | 2 | 184 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| Corrandulla | 398 | 1 | 281 | 0 | 0% | 8.1 km |
| Creeslough | 398 | 3 | 225 | 1 | 100% | 12 km |
| … | ||||||
| Gneevgullia | 300 | 1 | 131 | 0 | 0% | 4.8 km |
Of the other 169 towns, 144 have more pupils at the schools around them than Clonbullogue. 16 of the 170 towns have an all-Irish school within 3 km.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Clonbullogue
Each September’s pupils at every school in or within 3 km of the town, counted where the school stands today.
The schools in and around Clonbullogue had 104 pupils in 2015/16 and 84 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Clonbullogue
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 Clonbullogue
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonbullogue | 1 | 84 | 0 | 0% | 8 km |
| Rathangan 7.6 km | 3 | 1,345 | 0 | 33% | 0.6 km |
| Edenderry 8.9 km | 7 | 2,986 | 1 | 57% | 0.3 km |
| Derrinturn 13 km | 3 | 426 | 0 | 100% | 8.3 km |
| Portarlington 13 km | 5 | 2,657 | 0 | 0% | 1.3 km |
| Monasterevin 14 km | 5 | 1,605 | 0 | 20% | 0.7 km |
| Daingean 14 km | 1 | 261 | 0 | 100% | 13 km |
Edenderry has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Clonbullogue 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 Clonbullogue
How many schools are there in Clonbullogue?
In Clonbullogue or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school, with 84 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Clonbullogue that teach through Irish?
None in Clonbullogue or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Clonbullogue?
Not in Clonbullogue or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Ardscoil Rath Iomgháin, 8 km away.
What is the best school in Clonbullogue?
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 Clonbullogue?
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).