Photo: Kweedado2 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer single-sex secondaries around Cashel than around Co. Tipperary’s towns or Irish towns: 0%
For Cashel, that is below both Co. Tipperary’s towns (67%) and Irish towns (39%). Cashel Community School, with 885 pupils, is the only secondary school within 3 km. Nothing here grades or ranks these schools: Ireland publishes no results school by school, 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.
The 6 schools in and around Cashel
Here are the schools in Cashel or within 3 km of it, every one with its own page. Ireland publishes no school-by-school results, which is why these cards have no letters.
Where the 6 schools in and around Cashel 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 Cashel’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 Cashel
Schools by the language they teach in; the black tick is Ireland’s share.
None of the 6 schools in and around Cashel teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Cashel’s schools serve
How the area’s pupils divide, against 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 Cashel | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 31% | 31% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 46% | 49% | 49% |
Around Cashel, 31% of pupils attend a school in DEIS; across Ireland it is 27%, and 31% in Co. Tipperary. Furthest from Ireland’s mix is the share of pupils at all-Irish schools: 0% here against 6%. The biggest school in DEIS is St John the Baptist (293 pupils).
Each of the 6 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cashel Community SchoolPost-primary · Community school | 885 | 49% | ||
| St John the BaptistPrimary | 293 | 100% | ✓ | |
| St John the Baptist Boys SchoolPrimary | 268 | 0% | ✓ | |
| Cormaic Special SchoolSpecial | 211 | 30% | ||
| Scoil AonghusaSpecial | 151 | 26% | ||
| Cashel DeaneryPrimary | 29 | 41% |
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.
Who runs Cashel’s schools
Each school’s ethos, 2025/26: the bars show the share of schools of each kind.
4 of Cashel’s 6 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Archbishop of Cashel & Emly (4), Tipperary ETB & Congregation of Christian Brothers (1) and Bishop of Cashel, Ferns & Ossory COI (1). 2 of the 6 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 3 patrons of Cashel’s schools
Each school has a patron that owns it and sets its ethos; its board of management runs it.
The schools around Cashel answer to 3 patrons, and Archbishop of Cashel & Emly leads with 4 of the 6 schools and 50% of their pupils. The local Education and Training Board runs one.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop of Cashel & EmlySt John the Baptist, St John the Baptist Boys School, Cormaic Special School, Scoil Aonghusa | Catholic | 4 | 923 |
| Tipperary ETB & Congregation of Christian BrothersCashel | Inter-denominational | 1 | 885 |
| Bishop of Cashel, Ferns & Ossory COICashel Deanery | Church of Ireland | 1 | 29 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Cashel
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, 0 of the 4 grew by 5% or more and 3 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 Cashel’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 6 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Cashel Community SchoolPost-primary · Community school | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St John the BaptistPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St John the Baptist Boys SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Cormaic Special SchoolSpecial | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Scoil AonghusaSpecial | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Cashel DeaneryPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Cashel
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Families in Cashel have 2 post-primary schools within 10 km: one community school and one voluntary secondary school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. One of them charges fees. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cashel Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 885 | 0.6 km |
| Rockwell CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | Fee-paying, Boarding | 455 | 6.3 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Cashel
2 special schools serve the area: Cormaic Special School and Scoil Aonghusa, 362 pupils between them. 1 of the 3 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.
Cashel beside the 97 other Irish towns of 3,400 to 6,500 people
Towns of a similar size, with the schools in or within 3 km of each; ordered by population, never ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castleknock | 6,355 | 77 | 27,912 | 3 | 51% | 0.1 km |
| … | ||||||
| Mountmellick | 4,905 | 5 | 1,405 | 0 | 80% | 0.3 km |
| Duleek | 4,899 | 4 | 957 | 0 | 50% | 6.8 km |
| Poleberry | 4,875 | 29 | 11,782 | 1 | 45% | 0.4 km |
| Chapelizod | 4,862 | 154 | 44,846 | 5 | 58% | 0.7 km |
| Cashel | 4,805 | 6 | 1,837 | 0 | 33% | 0.6 km |
| Tramore | 4,803 | 75 | 22,562 | 7 | 48% | 0.7 km |
| Listowel | 4,794 | 8 | 1,547 | 1 | 50% | 0.4 km |
| Carrick-On-Shannon | 4,743 | 5 | 1,575 | 1 | 0% | 0.2 km |
| Birr | 4,726 | 7 | 1,708 | 1 | 86% | 1.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Clara | 3,403 | 3 | 699 | 0 | 100% | 0.3 km |
Among the 97 other towns, 77 have more pupils at their schools than Cashel does. Within 3 km, 75 of these 98 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Cashel
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Cashel had 1,789 pupils in 2015/16 and 1,837 in 2025/26. Scoil Aonghusa grew most: +29% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Cashel
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 Cashel
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
Thurles has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Of Cashel’s neighbours, Fethard saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+32%) and Thurles the least (+6%); Cashel itself: −1%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Cashel 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 Cashel
How many schools are there in Cashel?
In Cashel or within 3 km of it: 3 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 2 special schools, with 1,837 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Cashel that teach through Irish?
None in Cashel or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Are there fee-paying secondary schools near Cashel?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Cashel?
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 Cashel?
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).