Mount Talbot N.S.
Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon · F42 P767 · Roll number 14056G
Mount Talbot N.S. is the only one of the primary schools in or within 3 km of Athleague. Every school in and around Athleague →
What stands out about Mount Talbot N.S.
- A small primary school: 24 pupils, against a typical 131.
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Elphin; its ethos is Catholic.
- Outside Athleague’s outline, 4.3 km away; listed with Athleague, the nearest town in its county.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Mount Talbot N.S. had 24 pupils in 2025/26, down from 29 in 2015/16 (−17%). Girls are 50% of them. Its roll rose in 3 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Mount Talbot N.S.
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 Mount Talbot N.S. 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 Mount Talbot N.S.
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 Mount Talbot N.S.
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Mount Talbot N.S. 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.
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 Mount Talbot N.S..
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Talbot N.S. | 24 | – | Catholic | English | ||
| Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal | 81 | −5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.1 km |
| Tisrara National School | 54 | +29% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.5 km |
| Athleague N.S. | 105 | +40% | Catholic | English | 4.7 km | |
| Ballyforan Mixed N.S. | 59 | −2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 6.7 km |
| S.N. Padraig Naofa | 106 | −15% | Catholic | English | 7.2 km | |
| Creggs Central N.S. | 87 | +30% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 8.6 km |
The other 82 primary schools in Co. Roscommon
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lismoil N.S. | 12 | – | Catholic | English | 8.7 km | |
| S.N. Rath Aradh | 17 | – | Catholic | English | 9.1 km | |
| Ciaran Naofa | 60 | −19% | Catholic | English | 9.3 km | |
| Ballintleva N.S. | 46 | −19% | Catholic | English | 9.6 km | |
| Gaelscoil de hIde | 149 | −5% | Catholic | All in Irish | 11 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal | 13 | – | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| St Cóman's Wood Primary School | 605 | −5% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Seosamh | 121 | +7% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Carrick N.S. | 41 | −40% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| S.N. Cnoc an Chrocaire | 136 | −14% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Clover Hill N.S. | 51 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 14 km |
| Lisaniskey N.S. | 108 | +11% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Brideswell N.S. | 68 | +17% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Lecarrow Community National School | 28 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 16 km | |
| Kilteevan N.S. | 32 | +0% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 16 km |
| S.N. an Gleann Duibh | 147 | +10% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Roxboro N.S. | 226 | +10% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Taughmaconnell N.S. | 105 | +2% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Ceitheach | 13 | −55% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| S.N. Ronain | 34 | −8% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| Ballybay National School | 224 | +7% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire, | 115 | +25% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Scoil Bhríde | 126 | +18% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| S N Cluain na Cille | 399 | −7% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| S.N. O Dubhlain | 15 | −55% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| S.N. Ard Cianain | 77 | −25% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| St. Bride's N.S. | 89 | +2% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| S.N. Cnoc an Samhraidh | 223 | −16% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Clooncagh N.S. | 20 | −26% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| Camcloon N.S. | 55 | −15% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Castleplunkett N.S. | 44 | −19% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| S N Cor na Fola B | 223 | −8% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Ciaran | 107 | +0% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| Cloontuskert National School | 82 | +28% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 26 km |
| Tulsk N.S. | 77 | −10% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| Tarmon N.S. | 276 | +54% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 29 km |
| Threen N.S. | 35 | −8% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| S.N. Pol Naofa | 66 | −6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 29 km |
| Clonown N.S. | 28 | −3% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| St Annes Con N.S. | 141 | +17% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 30 km |
| St Mary's Primary | 136 | +9% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Padraig | 44 | −10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 30 km |
| Clooniquin N.S. | 44 | +26% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| S.N. Baile Ui Fhidhne | 96 | −2% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Ballinlough N.S. | 35 | – | Church of Ireland | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| Granlahan G N.S. | 46 | +18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| S.N. Cill Trostain | 45 | – | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| Whitehall N.S. | 93 | −23% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| Cloonbonnif N.S. | 24 | −8% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 34 km |
| Ballanagare N.S. | 57 | −5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 34 km |
| Carrick Mixed N.S. | 80 | −2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 34 km |
| Cloonfad N.S. | 125 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 36 km |
| Slatta N.S. | 8 | −69% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Abbeycarton N.S. | 138 | −13% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 36 km |
| Cloonfour N.S. | 42 | +75% | Catholic | English | 37 km | |
| S.N. Mhuire Lourdes | 57 | +36% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 37 km |
| Fairymount N.S. | 39 | +34% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 38 km |
| S.N. Padraig Naofa | 104 | −1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 39 km |
| Aughrim N.S. | 31 | −24% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Gorthaganny N.S. | 45 | −45% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 40 km |
| Don N.S. | 38 | −33% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 41 km |
| Rooskey N.S. | 160 | +33% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Eoin | 47 | +57% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Padraig | 18 | −40% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| S.N. Cruachain | 173 | −2% | Catholic | English | 42 km | |
| Tibohine N.S. | 56 | +10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| S.N. Lios A Cuill M | 94 | −1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 43 km |
| Naomh Atrachta | 36 | −8% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Dangan NS | 92 | +12% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Grange N.S. | 32 | +10% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| St Attractas N.S. | 281 | +19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 46 km |
| S.N. Michil Naofa | 24 | −4% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| S.N. Brusna | 66 | +14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 49 km |
| Abbey Primary School | 427 | – | Catholic | English | 49 km | |
| S.N. Paroisteach | 24 | +4% | Church of Ireland | English | 49 km | |
| N Micheal agus Padraig | 156 | +27% | Catholic | English | 52 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Mhuire | 9 | – | Catholic | English | 55 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Treasa | 89 | −2% | Catholic | English | 55 km | |
| S.N. Cill Ronain | 37 | +68% | Catholic | English | 59 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Padraig | 22 | −39% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 60 km |
| Strabaggan N.S. | 25 | +4% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 62 km |
| S.N. Lasair Naofa | 13 | – | Catholic | English | ✓ | 64 km |
Living in Athleague
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the F42 Eircode area
Housing in Athleague →The median sale price rose from €220,000 in 2023 to €259,800 in 2025 (+18%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the F42 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Co. Roscommon
Cost of living in Athleague →New tenancies in Co. Roscommon averaged €1,092 a month in 2025, against €1,000 in 2024 (+9%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗near Athleague, F42 P767
Primary schools near Mount Talbot N.S.
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Mount Talbot N.S.
Is Mount Talbot N.S. 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 Mount Talbot N.S. have?
24 pupils in 2025/26.
Does Mount Talbot N.S. teach through Irish?
No: Mount Talbot N.S. teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Mount Talbot N.S.?
Mount Talbot N.S. has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Elphin.
How do pupils get a place at Mount Talbot N.S.?
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 Mount Talbot N.S.?
The nearest are Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal (3.1 km), Tisrara National School (4.5 km) and Athleague N.S. (4.7 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 Athleague; 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).