Ballycurrane N.S.
Clashmore, via Youghal, Co. Waterford · P36 FR50 · Roll number 07441S
Ballycurrane N.S. is one of 2 primary schools in or within 3 km of Clashmore. Every school in and around Clashmore →
What stands out about Ballycurrane N.S.
- A small primary school: 44 pupils, against a typical 131.
- About as many pupils as in 2019/20 (−2%).
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Waterford & Lismore; its ethos is Catholic.
- Outside Clashmore’s outline, 2.7 km away; listed with Clashmore, the nearest town in its county.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26Ballycurrane N.S. had 44 pupils in 2025/26, down from 48 in 2015/16 (−8%). Girls are 41% of them. Its largest roll was 49, in 2022/23. Its roll rose in 5 of the 10 years.
Department of Education enrolments at 30 September each year; girls and boys where the lists give them.
No letter for Ballycurrane N.S.
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 Ballycurrane N.S. 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 Ballycurrane N.S.
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 Ballycurrane N.S.
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to Ballycurrane N.S. 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.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: Ballycurrane N.S. is about the size it was in 2019/20 (−2%). All the schools around Clashmore together changed by −12%.
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.
Each of the 6 nearest primary schools has more pupils than Ballycurrane N.S.. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −2%; 0 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballycurrane N.S. | 44 | −2% | Catholic | English | ||
| S.N. an Chlais Mhor | 76 | −16% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 3.2 km |
| St Marys N.S. Grange | 60 | −14% | Catholic | English | 3.6 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Parthalan | 53 | −28% | Catholic | English | 5.2 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Deaglan | 94 | −20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 7 km |
| Aglish N.S. | 82 | −15% | Catholic | English | 8 km | |
| Gaelscoil Chorain, | 261 | −17% | Catholic | All in Irish | 8.1 km |
The other 67 primary schools in Co. Waterford
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Baile Mhic Airt | 58 | −3% | Catholic | All in Irish | 9.1 km | |
| Glenbeg N.S. | 143 | −3% | Catholic | English | 9.4 km | |
| Knockanore N.S. | 105 | +15% | Catholic | English | 9.6 km | |
| Villierstown N.S. | 17 | −48% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| Whitechurch N.S. Ceapach | 104 | +17% | Catholic | English | 10 km | |
| S.N. an Carraig Liath | 98 | +7% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| S N na Leanai | 42 | −42% | Catholic | All in Irish | 13 km | |
| S N na Rinne | 131 | −14% | Catholic | All in Irish | 13 km | |
| St Marys N.S. | 237 | −15% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 13 km |
| Scoil Naomh Seosamh | 151 | +14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 13 km |
| S N Dun na Mainistreach | 455 | −4% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| S.N. Muire Magh Deilge | 51 | +0% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Scoil Gearbhain | 310 | +4% | Catholic | All in Irish | 16 km | |
| Bunscoil Gleann Sidheain | 189 | −10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 16 km |
| Scoil Naomh Gobnait | 107 | −25% | Catholic | English | 17 km | |
| Bunscoil Bhothar na Naomh | 284 | −8% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| S.N. Lios Mor Mochuda | 23 | +0% | Church of Ireland | English | 18 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 150 | +2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 18 km |
| S.N. an Garrain Bhain | 225 | +22% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| S.N. Cill Bhriain | 15 | −56% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| St. Marys NS Touraneena | 55 | −21% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| Ballyduff B 2 N.S. | 108 | −13% | Catholic | English | 24 km | |
| S.N. Cill Rosanta | 102 | −20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 25 km |
| Stradbally C. of Ire. N.S. | 24 | −29% | Church of Ireland | English | 25 km | |
| Our Lady of Mercy N.S. | 110 | +15% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| Ballymacarberry N.S. | 155 | −23% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| S.N. Aine Nfa Seafield | 75 | −9% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| S.N. Cnoc Machan | 6 | −71% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 32 km |
| S N na bhFiodh | 58 | −22% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Scoil Choill Mhic Thomaisin | 133 | −2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| S N an Baile Nua | 99 | −12% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| S N na Cille | 105 | −29% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| Clonea N.S. | 66 | +6% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Rathgormack B N.S. | 118 | −24% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| S.N. Dun Aill | 87 | −26% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| Fionnabhair N.S. | 172 | +3% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Ballyduff N.S. | 214 | −7% | Catholic | English | 42 km | |
| Carrickbeg N.S. | 106 | −6% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Portlaw N.S. | 214 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 44 km |
| Holy Cross School | 567 | −12% | Catholic | English | 45 km | |
| Glor na Mara NS | 381 | −9% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| Tramore Educate Together National School | 180 | +51% | Multi-denominational | English | 46 km | |
| Gaelscoil Philib Barún | 194 | −11% | Catholic | All in Irish | 46 km | |
| S N Baile an Bhuitléirigh | 242 | −3% | Catholic | English | 47 km | |
| St Saviours N.S. | 330 | +5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 50 km |
| Gaelscoil na nDeise | 225 | −5% | Catholic | All in Irish | 51 km | |
| Waterford Educate Together NS | 386 | +16% | Multi-denominational | English | 51 km | |
| St Pauls B N.S. | 269 | +19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 51 km |
| Presentation Primary School | 446 | +7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| S.N. Ursula Naofa | 620 | −12% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| An Teaghlaigh Naofa Girls Junior National School | 234 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| Our Lady of Mercy Senior P.s. | 292 | −5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| Scoil Lorcain BNS | 345 | −1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| Mount Sion CBS N.S. | 360 | +10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 52 km |
| St Stephens N.S. | 363 | −11% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 53 km |
| Scoil Naomh Eoin le Dia | 237 | −11% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| S.N. Deaglan | 396 | −7% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| Christ Church N.S. | 114 | −13% | Church of Ireland | English | 53 km | |
| Newtown Junior School | 112 | −7% | Quaker | English | 53 km | |
| Waterpark N.S. | 235 | +0% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| Our Lady of Good Counsel GNS | 187 | −11% | Catholic | English | 54 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Mhuire | 641 | −5% | Catholic | English | 54 km | |
| S.N. Muire an Port Mor | 212 | +0% | Catholic | English | 54 km | |
| Gaelscoil Phort Lairge | 207 | +1% | Catholic | All in Irish | 54 km | |
| Réalt na Mara National School | 196 | – | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | 55 km | |
| S.N. Faiche Liag | 196 | −4% | Catholic | English | 60 km | |
| Passage East N.S. | 101 | +33% | Catholic | English | 60 km |
Living in Clashmore
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the P36 Eircode area
Housing in Clashmore →The median sale price rose from €250,000 in 2023 to €281,000 in 2025 (+12%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the P36 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Co. Waterford
Cost of living in Clashmore →New tenancies in Co. Waterford averaged €1,247 a month in 2025, against €1,133 in 2024 (+10%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗near Clashmore, P36 FR50
Primary schools near Ballycurrane N.S.
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about Ballycurrane N.S.
Is Ballycurrane N.S. 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 Ballycurrane N.S. have?
44 pupils in 2025/26. That is −2% since 2019/20.
Does Ballycurrane N.S. teach through Irish?
No: Ballycurrane N.S. teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs Ballycurrane N.S.?
Ballycurrane N.S. has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Waterford & Lismore.
How do pupils get a place at Ballycurrane N.S.?
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 Ballycurrane N.S.?
The nearest are S.N. an Chlais Mhor (3.2 km), St Marys N.S. Grange (3.6 km) and S.N. Naomh Parthalan (5.2 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 Clashmore; 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).