Photo: 2ManyCats4Me · CC0Irish-medium schools are unusually common around Carrick-on-Suir: 13%, above Co. Tipperary’s towns and Irish towns
Set beside other towns, Carrick-on-Suir comes out above both Co. Tipperary’s towns (4%) and Irish towns (8%). 2 of its 3 secondary schools take only boys or only girls. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results 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.
What stands out about Carrick-on-Suir’s schools
Extra support for many schools
Many schools here are in DEIS, which gives schools in disadvantaged areas more teachers, money and help; across Ireland, 30% of schools are. In DEIS: Comeragh College (613), Scoil Mhuire (470), Clochar na Toirbhirte (281), S N Mhuire na mBraithre (122) and Gaelscoil Charraig na Siuire (114). Who runs them ↓
Mostly single-sex at secondary
Most secondary schools here take only boys or only girls; the mixed ones are marked on the cards below. Single-sex: Scoil Mhuire (470) and Edmund Rice Secondary School (305). Every school ↓
One school growing fast
The fastest-growing school here is Comeragh College: 443 pupils in 2019/20, 613 now. Getting a place ↓
Facts from the Department of Education’s lists; nothing here judges how well a school teaches.
Who runs Carrick-on-Suir’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
7 of Carrick-on-Suir’s 8 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Bishop of Waterford & Lismore (4), Tipperary ETB (1) and CEIST (1). 5 of the 8 are 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 8 schools in and around Carrick-on-Suir
Every school in Carrick-on-Suir or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Results by school aren’t published in Ireland, so the cards carry none.
Where the 8 schools in and around Carrick-on-Suir 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 Carrick-on-Suir’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 Carrick-on-Suir
The schools by teaching language, with Ireland’s share as the black tick.
1 of Carrick-on-Suir’s 8 schools teach every subject through Irish: Gaelscoil Charraig na Siuire.
Who Carrick-on-Suir’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Tipperary’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
DEIS by stage: pupils at DEIS schools
| Share of pupils | Around Carrick-on-Suir | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 77% | 31% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 5% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 51% | 49% | 49% |
| Post-primary pupils at single-sex schools | 56% | 41% | 29% |
| Post-primary pupils at fee-paying schools | 0% | 4% | 6% |
DEIS schools teach 77% of the pupils around Carrick-on-Suir, a larger share than Ireland’s 27% (Co. Tipperary: 31%). Furthest from Ireland’s mix is the share of post-primary pupils at single-sex schools: 56% here against 29%. The biggest school in DEIS is Comeragh College (613 pupils).
Each of the 8 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comeragh CollegePost-primary · ETB | 613 | 40% | ✓ | |
| Scoil MhuirePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 470 | 100% | ✓ | |
| Edmund Rice Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 305 | 0% | ||
| Clochar na ToirbhirtePrimary | 281 | 79% | ✓ | |
| S N Mhuire na mBraithrePrimary | 122 | 0% | ✓ | |
| Gaelscoil Charraig na SiuirePrimary | 114 | 43% | ✓ | ✓ |
| Carrickbeg N.S.Primary | 106 | 49% | ||
| Ballyneale N.S.Primary | 77 | 43% |
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 5 patrons of Carrick-on-Suir’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
The schools around Carrick-on-Suir answer to 5 patrons, and Bishop of Waterford & Lismore leads with 4 of the 8 schools and 28% of their pupils. An Education and Training Board runs one of them.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop of Waterford & LismoreClochar na Toirbhirte, S N Mhuire na mBraithre, Carrickbeg, Ballyneale | Catholic | 4 | 586 |
| Tipperary ETBComeragh College | Multi-denominational | 1 | 613 |
| CEISTScoil Mhuire | Catholic | 1 | 470 |
| Edmund Rice Schools TrustEdmund Rice | Catholic | 1 | 305 |
| An Foras PátrúnachtaGaelscoil Charraig na Siuire | Catholic | 1 | 114 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Carrick-on-Suir
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
Of these 8 schools, 2 have grown by at least 5% since 2019/20 and 4 have lost as much; Ireland’s pupils changed by +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 Carrick-on-Suir’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
Reports come from whole-school evaluations (teaching, learning, leadership and management), subject inspections and follow-through visits that check earlier advice; gov.ie publishes each one with the school’s response.
Reports say what inspectors found and what should improve, without an overall grade, so none appears here; each of the 8 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Comeragh CollegePost-primary · ETB | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil MhuirePost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Edmund Rice Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Clochar na ToirbhirtePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S N Mhuire na mBraithrePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Gaelscoil Charraig na SiuirePrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Carrickbeg N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Ballyneale 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 Carrick-on-Suir
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Within 10 km of Carrick-on-Suir there are 3 post-primary schools: 2 voluntary secondary schools and one ETB school. Of these, 2 are single-sex: 1 for girls and 1 for boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil MhuireVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls | DEIS | 470 | 0.6 km |
| Edmund Rice Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Boys | – | 305 | 0.6 km |
| Comeragh CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 613 | 1.5 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Carrick-on-Suir
No special school is in or near Carrick-on-Suir. 1 of the 5 primary schools have special classes for children who need more support. Their cards ↑
Special schools and primary schools with special classes as the Department lists them; the National Council for Special Education places pupils in special classes.
Carrick-on-Suir beside the 97 other Irish towns of 4,000 to 7,800 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frankfield and Grange | 7,687 | 58 | 20,798 | 6 | 24% | 2 km |
| … | ||||||
| Sutton | 5,789 | 50 | 14,773 | 4 | 30% | 0.4 km |
| Harmonstown | 5,769 | 84 | 25,004 | 5 | 39% | 0.4 km |
| Rathgar | 5,768 | 105 | 34,594 | 8 | 21% | 0.3 km |
| Ferrybank | 5,766 | 32 | 12,081 | 2 | 38% | 0.6 km |
| Carrick-on-Suir | 5,752 | 8 | 2,088 | 1 | 63% | 0.6 km |
| Carrickmacross | 5,745 | 6 | 2,352 | 1 | 17% | 0.2 km |
| Portobello | 5,732 | 110 | 29,104 | 7 | 46% | 0.4 km |
| Blessington | 5,611 | 6 | 1,711 | 1 | 0% | 0.2 km |
| Knocknaheeny | 5,592 | 59 | 18,265 | 5 | 59% | 0.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Newcastle | 4,032 | 31 | 11,321 | 5 | 29% | 0.9 km |
Among the 97 other towns, 83 have more pupils at their schools than Carrick-on-Suir does. An all-Irish school is within 3 km of 84 of the 98.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Carrick-on-Suir
Pupils every September at the schools in or within 3 km of the town, each counted at today’s site.
The schools in and around Carrick-on-Suir had 1,874 pupils in 2015/16 and 2,088 in 2025/26. Comeragh College grew most: +38% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Carrick-on-Suir
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 Carrick-on-Suir
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
The roll around Carrick-on-Suir moved +7% since 2019/20; nearby, Mooncoin grew most (−9%) and Piltown least (−24%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Carrick-on-Suir 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 Carrick-on-Suir
How many schools are there in Carrick-on-Suir?
In Carrick-on-Suir or within 3 km of it: 5 primary schools and 3 secondary schools, with 2,088 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Carrick-on-Suir that teach through Irish?
Yes, 1: Gaelscoil Charraig na Siuire teach every subject through Irish.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Carrick-on-Suir?
No: all 3 secondary schools here are free.
What is the best school in Carrick-on-Suir?
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 Carrick-on-Suir?
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).