Photo: Darrin Antrobus · CC BY-SA 2.0The nearest secondary school to Termonbarry is 9 km away
The DEIS programme includes 0% of the schools around Termonbarry, below Irish towns (35%). Every one of its 3 schools within 3 km has a Catholic ethos. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
Schools in the town or within 3 km of its outline, Department of Education lists for 2025/26; the Ireland figures cover all schools listed.
Where the 3 schools in and around Termonbarry 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 Termonbarry’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 Termonbarry’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
3 of Termonbarry’s 3 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Elphin (2) and Bishop of Ardagh & Clonmacnoise (1). None of the 3 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.
The 3 schools in and around Termonbarry
Every school in Termonbarry or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. No letters, no results: Irish schools aren’t ranked one by one.
Teaching through Irish in and around Termonbarry
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 3 schools in and around Termonbarry teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Termonbarry’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Roscommon’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Termonbarry | Co. Roscommon | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 0% | 29% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 1% | 6% |
| Girls | 50% | 48% | 49% |
0% of the pupils around Termonbarry are at a DEIS school, fewer than the 27% across Ireland (29% in Co. Roscommon). Set beside Ireland, pupils at all-Irish schools stand out most: 0% against 6%.
Each of the 3 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehall N.S.Primary | 93 | 53% | ||
| S.N. MhuirePrimary | 94 | 49% | ||
| Cloonfour N.S.Primary | 42 | 45% |
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.
The 2 patrons of Termonbarry’s schools
Patrons own the schools and set their ethos; boards of management run them day to day.
Of the 3 schools around Termonbarry, 2 have Bishop of Elphin as patron, teaching 59% of the pupils; 2 patrons in all.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of ElphinWhitehall, Cloonfour | Catholic | 2 | 135 |
| Bishop of Ardagh & ClonmacnoiseS.N. Mhuire | Catholic | 1 | 94 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Termonbarry
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
Between 2019/20 and now, 1 of the 3 grew by 5% or more and 1 shrank as much, while Ireland’s pupil numbers moved +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.
Inspection reports for Termonbarry’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
Each school is visited by inspectors from time to time, for a whole-school evaluation of teaching, learning and leadership, for one subject, or to follow up earlier advice, and every report is posted on gov.ie with the school’s response.
The reports describe what inspectors saw and what each school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the 3 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Whitehall N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. MhuirePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Cloonfour 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 Termonbarry
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Within 10 km of Termonbarry there are 4 post-primary schools: 2 voluntary secondary schools and 2 ETB schools. 2 of them are single-sex, 1 for girls and 1 for boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meán Scoil MuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | DEIS | 600 | 8.9 km |
| St. Mel's CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | DEIS | 603 | 9 km |
| Templemichael CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 365 | 9.4 km |
| Lanesboro Community CollegeETB · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 275 | 9.7 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Termonbarry beside the 169 other Irish towns of 500 to 900 people
Schools in or within 3 km of each town, by population; none is ranked, as Ireland publishes no results
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cratloe | 899 | 1 | 278 | 0 | 0% | 6.6 km |
| … | ||||||
| Julianstown | 701 | 4 | 2,229 | 0 | 0% | 3.7 km |
| Cloughjordan | 701 | 2 | 193 | 0 | 0% | 8 km |
| Leitrim | 701 | 1 | 220 | 0 | 0% | 4.7 km |
| Shanagarry | 700 | 2 | 201 | 0 | 0% | 11 km |
| Termonbarry | 699 | 3 | 229 | 0 | 0% | 9 km |
| Tulla | 697 | 2 | 986 | 0 | 0% | 0.6 km |
| Holycross | 697 | 2 | 230 | 0 | 50% | 6.3 km |
| Ballymore Eustace | 689 | 1 | 216 | 0 | 0% | 6.4 km |
| Naul | 684 | 1 | 163 | 0 | 0% | 5.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Stradbally | 500 | 2 | 134 | 0 | 0% | 8.7 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 87 of the other 169 towns than around Termonbarry. Within 3 km, 15 of these 170 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Termonbarry
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 Termonbarry had 230 pupils in 2015/16 and 229 in 2025/26, fewer than before. Cloonfour N.S. grew most: +75% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Termonbarry
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 Termonbarry
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Termonbarry | 3 | 229 | 0 | 0% | 9 km |
| Longford 9.1 km | 12 | 3,607 | 1 | 83% | 0.2 km |
| Lanesborough-Ballyleague 9.5 km | 4 | 514 | 0 | 75% | 1.2 km |
| Drumlish 13 km | 1 | 215 | 0 | 100% | 10 km |
Longford has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Termonbarry changed by −5%; among its neighbours, Lanesborough-Ballyleague’s grew most (+22%) and Drumlish’s least (−7%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Termonbarry 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 Termonbarry
How many schools are there in Termonbarry?
In Termonbarry or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, with 229 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Termonbarry that teach through Irish?
None in Termonbarry or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Termonbarry?
Not in Termonbarry or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Meán Scoil Muire, 9 km away.
What is the best school in Termonbarry?
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 Termonbarry?
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).