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Roscomroe, Ballybritt, Roscrea · E53 TY38 · Roll number 18537T
S.N. Ros Com Rua is the only one of the primary schools in or within 3 km of Kinnitty. Every school in and around Kinnitty →
What stands out about S.N. Ros Com Rua
- A small primary school: 21 pupils, against a typical 131.
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Smaller than it was: 21 pupils, 28% fewer than the 29 of 2019/20.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Killaloe; its ethos is Catholic.
- Outside Kinnitty’s outline, 8.7 km away; listed with Kinnitty, the nearest town in its county.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26S.N. Ros Com Rua had 21 pupils in 2025/26, down from 22 in 2015/16 (−5%). Girls are 43% of them. Its largest roll was 29, in 2019/20. Its roll rose in 4 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for S.N. Ros Com Rua
Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing schools by them, so this school has no letter and nothing here ranks it. Its facts are the Department of Education’s; its inspection reports are linked below.
What the Department of Education does publish for S.N. Ros Com Rua is on this page: its pupils each September since 2015/16, girls and boys, its patron and ethos, whether it teaches through Irish, whether it is in DEIS, and its inspection reports.
Newspapers print lists of how many of a school’s leavers go on to college. Those count destinations, not exam results, and depend on who a school takes in; we don’t use them.
Inspection reports on S.N. Ros Com Rua
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate visits schools and publishes its reports. The reports describe what inspectors saw; they give no overall grade, and we don’t make one. Reports for this school on gov.ie ↗
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.
Getting a place at S.N. Ros Com Rua
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to S.N. Ros Com Rua directly. Children can start once they are four and must be in school by six; the school’s yearly admission notice gives the dates for applying and for its decisions.
A school with more applicants than places admits on the criteria in its admission policy, often brothers and sisters, the area it serves and, for post-primary schools, its feeder primaries. A family refused a place can appeal.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: S.N. Ros Com Rua has shrunk by 28% since 2019/20. All the schools around Kinnitty together changed by +15%.
Pupils since 2019/20
Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018; Department of Education enrolments 2019/20 and 2025/26 (preliminary).
Side by side with the nearest primary schools
2025/26The nearest schools of the same kind, as the crow flies: their pupils, ethos and language. No results: none are published.
Each of the 6 nearest primary schools has more pupils than S.N. Ros Com Rua. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −28%; 6 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Ros Com Rua | 21 | −28% | Catholic | English | ||
| Coolderry Central N.S. | 82 | −10% | Catholic | English | 5.7 km | |
| Seir Kierans N.S. | 71 | +20% | Catholic | English | 5.8 km | |
| S.N. Cronain Naofa | 171 | −21% | Catholic | English | 7 km | |
| St Johns | 163 | −7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 7.3 km |
| Roscrea N.S. No 2 | 31 | +7% | Church of Ireland | English | 7.7 km | |
| Gaelscoil an Tsli Dala | 49 | +7% | Inter-denominational | All in Irish | 7.9 km |
The other 63 primary schools in Co. Offaly
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceann Eitigh N.S. | 132 | +15% | Catholic | English | 9.2 km | |
| Croinchoill N.S. | 243 | +1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 11 km |
| Shinrone Mixed N.S. | 121 | +1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 12 km |
| St Brendans Monastery | 178 | −8% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 13 km |
| S.N. Caoimhin Naofa | 67 | −17% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| Mercy Primary School | 141 | −2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 13 km |
| S.N. Naomh Eoin | 148 | +23% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| S.N. Osmann | 86 | +4% | Church of Ireland | English | ✓ | 14 km |
| Gaelscoil na Laochra | 45 | +29% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 14 km | |
| S.N. Mhuire Bainrioghan | 76 | +23% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire Agus Chormaic | 109 | +5% | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | ✓ | 17 km |
| S.N. Bhride | 111 | +14% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| S.N. Chiarain Naofa | 29 | – | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| S.N. Seosamh | 108 | +29% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Mount Bolus N.S. | 25 | −29% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| S.N. Lomchluana | 33 | −23% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| St Rynaghs N.S. | 249 | +1% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| St Marys National School | 93 | −4% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 24 km |
| St Cronans Mixed N.S. | 72 | +13% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| S.N. Mhuire | 72 | +6% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| S.N. Seosamh | 97 | +31% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| High St Mixed N.S. | 73 | +14% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| St. Cynoc's National School | 189 | −4% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| S.N. Muire Naofa | 64 | −27% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 29 km |
| Scoil Colmain Naofa | 322 | +5% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Shinchill N.S. | 286 | +3% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| S N Chartaigh Naofa | 147 | −21% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Clonaghadoo N.S. | 81 | −24% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| Ballykilmurry N.S. | 199 | −6% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Callin | 69 | −9% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 249 | −20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| S.N. Naomh Brighde Buach | 116 | −32% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| Gaelscoil an Eiscir Riada | 185 | −11% | Catholic | All in Irish | 33 km | |
| Charleville N.S. | 173 | +92% | Church of Ireland | English | 34 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Philomena | 164 | −7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 34 km |
| Arden Boys N.S. | 215 | +4% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 34 km |
| St. Joseph's N.S. | 360 | −12% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 34 km |
| St Ciarans Mixed N.S. | 110 | −12% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 34 km |
| Tullamore Educate Together NS | 236 | +7% | Multi-denominational | English | 35 km | |
| Cloneyhurke N.S. | 18 | −40% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| S.N. Mhuire | 124 | −8% | Catholic | English | 37 km | |
| S.N. Phroinsiais Naofa | 186 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 37 km |
| S.N. Chiarain Naofa | 83 | +17% | Catholic | English | 37 km | |
| Clara Convent N.S. | 180 | −17% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 37 km |
| Geashill 1 N.S. | 126 | −2% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Cholumchille | 197 | −8% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| S.N. Sheosaimh Naofa | 193 | +7% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| S.N. Mhanachain | 176 | +5% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| St Colmans N.S. | 97 | −14% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Naomh Mhuire N.S. | 83 | −6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 43 km |
| S.N. Peadar agus Pol | 15 | −52% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Daingean N.S. | 261 | +4% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 44 km |
| Scoil Bhride | 70 | −23% | Catholic | English | 48 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Brogain | 72 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 49 km |
| S.N. Mhuire Naofa | 91 | −40% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| Clonbullogue N.S. | 84 | −9% | Catholic | English | 52 km | |
| S.N. Phadraig | 124 | −2% | Catholic | English | 55 km | |
| Scoil Bhríde Primary School | 480 | −24% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 58 km |
| Gaelscoil Éadan Doire | 69 | −32% | Catholic | All in Irish | ✓ | 58 km |
| Edenderry 2 N.S. | 48 | −27% | Church of Ireland | English | 58 km | |
| St Patrick's National School | 192 | −13% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 58 km |
| Edenderry Convent N.S. | 429 | +12% | Catholic | English | 58 km | |
| Castlejordan Central N.S. | 79 | −7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 60 km |
Living in Kinnitty
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the R42 Eircode area
Housing in Kinnitty →The median sale price rose from €180,000 in 2023 to €240,000 in 2025 (+33%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the R42 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Co. Offaly
Cost of living in Kinnitty →New tenancies in Co. Offaly averaged €1,198 a month in 2025, against €1,089 in 2024 (+10%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗














near Kinnitty, E53 TY38
Primary schools near S.N. Ros Com Rua
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about S.N. Ros Com Rua
Is S.N. Ros Com Rua a good school?
We don’t grade it: Ireland publishes no exam results school by school, and section 53 of the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them. Its inspection reports on gov.ie, a visit and a talk with the principal will tell you more than any table could.
How many pupils does S.N. Ros Com Rua have?
21 pupils in 2025/26. That is −28% since 2019/20.
Does S.N. Ros Com Rua teach through Irish?
No: S.N. Ros Com Rua teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs S.N. Ros Com Rua?
S.N. Ros Com Rua has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Killaloe.
How do pupils get a place at S.N. Ros Com Rua?
Apply to the school directly. It publishes an admission policy and a yearly admission notice with its dates; if more children apply than it has places, it admits on the criteria in its policy.
Which schools of the same kind are near S.N. Ros Com Rua?
The nearest are Coolderry Central N.S. (5.7 km), Seir Kierans N.S. (5.8 km) and S.N. Cronain Naofa (7 km).
Sources: Department of Education, school lists 2025/26 (preliminary) and enrolments since 2015/16, CC BY 4.0 · inspection reports on gov.ie, linked by roll number. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Facts from the Department of Education’s school lists. Listed with Kinnitty; nothing here rates the school.
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).