Photo: Sheila1988 · CC0Fewer single-sex secondaries around Templemore than around Co. Tipperary’s towns or Irish towns: 0%
That leaves Templemore below both Co. Tipperary’s towns (67%) and Irish towns (39%). Its one secondary school within 3 km, Our Ladys Secondary School, has 646 pupils. These schools are described rather than graded, because Ireland publishes no school results and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them.
Counted from the Department of Education’s 2025/26 lists: every school in the town or within 3 km of it, against every school in Ireland.
What stands out about Templemore’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: S.N. Iosef Naofa (163), St Colmcilles Primary School (109) and St Marys N.S. (24). Who runs them ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Who runs Templemore’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
4 of Templemore’s 5 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. The patrons with most schools here: Archbishop of Cashel & Emly (3), CEIST (1) and Bishop of Cashel, Ferns & Ossory COI (1). 3 of the 5 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 5 schools in and around Templemore
Every school in Templemore or within 3 km of its outline, each linked to its own page. Ireland publishes no school-by-school results, which is why these cards have no letters.
Where the 5 schools in and around Templemore 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 Templemore’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 Templemore
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 5 schools in and around Templemore teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Templemore’s schools serve
Shares of the pupils at the area’s schools, 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 Templemore | Co. Tipperary | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 30% | 31% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Girls | 49% | 49% | 49% |
30% of the pupils around Templemore are at a DEIS school, more than the 27% across Ireland (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 S.N. Iosef Naofa (163 pupils).
Each of the 5 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Ladys Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | 646 | 48% | ||
| S.N. Iosef NaofaPrimary | 163 | 82% | ✓ | |
| St Colmcilles Primary SchoolPrimary | 109 | 0% | ✓ | |
| St Marys N.S.Primary | 24 | 63% | ✓ | |
| Castle Iny N.S.Primary | 31 | 39% |
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 3 patrons of Templemore’s schools
The patron owns the school and sets its ethos; a board of management runs it day to day.
Of the 5 schools around Templemore, 3 have Archbishop of Cashel & Emly as patron, teaching 31% of the pupils; 3 patrons in all.
| Patron | Ethos | Schools | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop of Cashel & EmlyS.N. Iosef Naofa, St Colmcilles Primary School, Castle Iny | Catholic | 3 | 303 |
| CEISTOur Ladys | Catholic | 1 | 646 |
| Bishop of Cashel, Ferns & Ossory COISt Marys | Church of Ireland | 1 | 24 |
Department of Education school lists: patron 2024/25, ethos 2025/26.
How children get a place in Templemore
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, 2 of the 4 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 Templemore’s schools
Reports from the Department of Education’s Inspectorate, every school’s linked and none rated
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.
The reports describe what inspectors saw and what each school should do next. They give no overall grade, so none is shown here; the 5 schools below each link their own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| Our Ladys Secondary SchoolPost-primary · Voluntary secondary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| S.N. Iosef NaofaPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Colmcilles Primary SchoolPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| St Marys N.S.Primary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Castle Iny 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 Templemore
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Families in Templemore have 2 post-primary schools within 10 km: 2 voluntary secondary schools. Every one of them takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Ladys Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 646 | 0.3 km |
| St Josephs CollegeVoluntary secondary · Catholic | Girls and boys | – | 373 | 9.9 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Special schools and classes around Templemore
No special school is in or near Templemore. 2 of the 4 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.
Templemore beside the 90 other Irish towns of 1,400 to 2,700 people
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km, listed by population: Ireland publishes no results, so none is ranked
| Town | People | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Callan | 2,678 | 2 | 1,112 | 0 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| … | ||||||
| Killorglin | 2,163 | 4 | 1,406 | 0 | 50% | 0.4 km |
| Dunleer | 2,143 | 5 | 1,205 | 0 | 20% | 0.8 km |
| Mountrath | 2,070 | 7 | 1,306 | 1 | 29% | 0.8 km |
| Bunclody | 2,053 | 5 | 1,912 | 0 | 40% | 0.5 km |
| Templemore | 2,005 | 5 | 973 | 0 | 60% | 0.3 km |
| Enniskerry | 2,000 | 10 | 2,487 | 0 | 20% | 2.9 km |
| Termonfeckin | 1,983 | 2 | 508 | 0 | 0% | 5.4 km |
| Strandhill | 1,982 | 1 | 252 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
| Cloyne | 1,967 | 2 | 653 | 0 | 0% | 5.8 km |
| … | ||||||
| Stradbally | 1,404 | 2 | 375 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 28 of the other 90 towns than around Templemore. Within 3 km, 15 of these 91 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Templemore
Every school in or within 3 km of the town each September, counted where it stands today.
The schools in and around Templemore had 1,151 pupils in 2015/16 and 973 in 2025/26, fewer than before. Castle Iny N.S. grew most: +29% since 2019/20.
Pupils at schools in and around Templemore
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 Templemore
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | Pupils | All-Irish | DEIS schools | Nearest post-primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Templemore | 5 | 973 | 0 | 60% | 0.3 km |
| Thurles 13 km | 10 | 3,787 | 1 | 10% | 0.3 km |
| Rathdowney 18 km | 2 | 627 | 0 | 50% | 1.1 km |
| Roscrea 18 km | 8 | 1,763 | 0 | 50% | 0.5 km |
| Urlingford 19 km | 2 | 882 | 0 | 100% | 3.1 km |
Thurles has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. The roll around Templemore moved +6% since 2019/20; nearby, Rathdowney grew most (+21%) and Urlingford least (+3%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Templemore 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 Templemore
How many schools are there in Templemore?
In Templemore or within 3 km of it: 4 primary schools and 1 secondary school, with 973 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Templemore that teach through Irish?
None in Templemore 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 Templemore?
No: the secondary school here is free.
What is the best school in Templemore?
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 Templemore?
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).