S.N. Naomh Padraig
Ballyfarnon, Boyle, Co. Roscommon · F52 CX60 · Roll number 13978B
S.N. Naomh Padraig is the only one of the primary schools in or within 3 km of Keadew. Every school in and around Keadew →
What stands out about S.N. Naomh Padraig
- A small primary school: 22 pupils, against a typical 131.
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Smaller than it was: 22 pupils, 39% fewer than the 36 of 2019/20.
- In 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.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Ardagh & Clonmacnoise; its ethos is Catholic.
- Outside Keadew’s outline, 3.6 km away; listed with Keadew, the nearest town in its county.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26S.N. Naomh Padraig had 22 pupils in 2025/26, down from 31 in 2015/16 (−29%). Girls are 45% of them. Its largest roll was 39, in 2018/19. 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 S.N. Naomh Padraig
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. Naomh Padraig 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. Naomh Padraig
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. Naomh Padraig
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to S.N. Naomh Padraig 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.
It is in DEIS, so it has extra support for pupils from disadvantaged areas.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: S.N. Naomh Padraig has shrunk by 39% since 2019/20.
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.
Of the 6 nearest primary schools, 4 have more pupils than S.N. Naomh Padraig. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −39%; 3 of the 3 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Naomh Padraig | 22 | −39% | Catholic | English | ✓ | |
| S.N. Cill Ronain | 37 | +68% | Catholic | English | 4.6 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Ailbhe | 97 | – | Catholic | English | 4.7 km | |
| S.N. Lasair Naofa | 13 | – | Catholic | English | ✓ | 6.1 km |
| S.N. Naomh Treasa | 89 | −2% | Catholic | English | 6.7 km | |
| Strabaggan N.S. | 25 | +4% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 7.9 km |
| S.N. Naomh Mhuire | 9 | – | Catholic | English | 8.3 km |
The other 80 primary schools in Co. Roscommon
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N Micheal agus Padraig | 156 | +27% | Catholic | English | 9 km | |
| S.N. Paroisteach | 24 | +4% | Church of Ireland | English | 12 km | |
| Abbey Primary School | 427 | – | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| S.N. Michil Naofa | 24 | −4% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Grange N.S. | 32 | +10% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| S.N. Cruachain | 173 | −2% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Eoin | 47 | +57% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| Naomh Atrachta | 36 | −8% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Dangan NS | 92 | +12% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| Aughrim N.S. | 31 | −24% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Padraig | 18 | −40% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Abbeycarton N.S. | 138 | −13% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 25 km |
| S.N. Padraig Naofa | 104 | −1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 26 km |
| Ballanagare N.S. | 57 | −5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| Tibohine N.S. | 56 | +10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| S.N. Cill Trostain | 45 | – | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| Clooniquin N.S. | 44 | +26% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| Fairymount N.S. | 39 | +34% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 31 km |
| Rooskey N.S. | 160 | +33% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| St Attractas N.S. | 281 | +19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 32 km |
| Don N.S. | 38 | −33% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 32 km |
| S.N. Naomh Padraig | 44 | −10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| Tulsk N.S. | 77 | −10% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| St Mary's Primary | 136 | +9% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| S.N. Baile Ui Fhidhne | 96 | −2% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Slatta N.S. | 8 | −69% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| S.N. Brusna | 66 | +14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 34 km |
| S.N. Mhuire Lourdes | 57 | +36% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 36 km |
| Castleplunkett N.S. | 44 | −19% | Catholic | English | 37 km | |
| Cloonfour N.S. | 42 | +75% | Catholic | English | 37 km | |
| Tarmon N.S. | 276 | +54% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 37 km |
| S.N. Lios A Cuill M | 94 | −1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 37 km |
| St Annes Con N.S. | 141 | +17% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 38 km |
| S.N. Pol Naofa | 66 | −6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 38 km |
| Whitehall N.S. | 93 | −23% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Clooncagh N.S. | 20 | −26% | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Cloonbonnif N.S. | 24 | −8% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 41 km |
| Scoil Bhríde | 126 | +18% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| St. Bride's N.S. | 89 | +2% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Gorthaganny N.S. | 45 | −45% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 43 km |
| S.N. Naomh Ceitheach | 13 | −55% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Cloontuskert National School | 82 | +28% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 43 km |
| S.N. O Dubhlain | 15 | −55% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Threen N.S. | 35 | −8% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Roxboro N.S. | 226 | +10% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| Ballinlough N.S. | 35 | – | Church of Ireland | English | ✓ | 46 km |
| Carrick Mixed N.S. | 80 | −2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 46 km |
| Clover Hill N.S. | 51 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 46 km |
| Lisaniskey N.S. | 108 | +11% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| Kilteevan N.S. | 32 | +0% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 48 km |
| St Cóman's Wood Primary School | 605 | −5% | Catholic | English | 49 km | |
| Gaelscoil de hIde | 149 | −5% | Catholic | All in Irish | 50 km | |
| Granlahan G N.S. | 46 | +18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 50 km |
| Ciaran Naofa | 60 | −19% | Catholic | English | 51 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Seosamh | 121 | +7% | Catholic | English | 54 km | |
| S.N. Cnoc an Chrocaire | 136 | −14% | Catholic | English | 55 km | |
| Athleague N.S. | 105 | +40% | Catholic | English | 56 km | |
| Cloonfad N.S. | 125 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 56 km |
| Lecarrow Community National School | 28 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 59 km | |
| Mount Talbot N.S. | 24 | – | Catholic | English | 60 km | |
| S.N. Rath Aradh | 17 | – | Catholic | English | 60 km | |
| S.N. an Gleann Duibh | 147 | +10% | Catholic | English | 62 km | |
| Tisrara National School | 54 | +29% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 62 km |
| Lismoil N.S. | 12 | – | Catholic | English | 63 km | |
| Carrick N.S. | 41 | −40% | Catholic | English | 65 km | |
| Ballintleva N.S. | 46 | −19% | Catholic | English | 66 km | |
| Ballyforan Mixed N.S. | 59 | −2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 67 km |
| Ballybay National School | 224 | +7% | Catholic | English | 68 km | |
| Brideswell N.S. | 68 | +17% | Catholic | English | 69 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal | 13 | – | Catholic | English | 71 km | |
| S N Cluain na Cille | 399 | −7% | Catholic | English | 72 km | |
| S.N. Ronain | 34 | −8% | Catholic | English | 73 km | |
| Taughmaconnell N.S. | 105 | +2% | Catholic | English | 74 km | |
| S.N. Cnoc an Samhraidh | 223 | −16% | Catholic | English | 74 km | |
| S.N. Ard Cianain | 77 | −25% | Catholic | English | 76 km | |
| S N Cor na Fola B | 223 | −8% | Catholic | English | 78 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire, | 115 | +25% | Catholic | English | 79 km | |
| Clonown N.S. | 28 | −3% | Catholic | English | 80 km | |
| Camcloon N.S. | 55 | −15% | Catholic | English | 80 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Ciaran | 107 | +0% | Catholic | English | 83 km |
Living in Keadew
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the F52 Eircode area
Housing in Keadew →The median sale price rose from €171,000 in 2023 to €192,500 in 2025 (+13%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the F52 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Co. Roscommon
Cost of living in Keadew →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 Keadew, F52 CX60
Primary schools near S.N. Naomh Padraig
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. Naomh Padraig
Is S.N. Naomh Padraig 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. Naomh Padraig have?
22 pupils in 2025/26. That is −39% since 2019/20.
Does S.N. Naomh Padraig teach through Irish?
No: S.N. Naomh Padraig teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs S.N. Naomh Padraig?
S.N. Naomh Padraig has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Ardagh & Clonmacnoise.
How do pupils get a place at S.N. Naomh Padraig?
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. Naomh Padraig?
The nearest are S.N. Cill Ronain (4.6 km), S.N. Naomh Ailbhe (4.7 km) and S.N. Lasair Naofa (6.1 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 Keadew; 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).