The schools around Clashmore have fewer pupils than in 2019/20: −12%, below Co. Waterford’s towns and Irish towns
That leaves Clashmore below both Co. Waterford’s towns (+4%) and Irish towns (+4%). All 2 of its schools are Catholic: there is no other kind within 3 km. Ireland publishes no school results, and the Education Act 1998 restricts comparing them, so these schools are described here, never graded or ranked.
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 2 schools in and around Clashmore 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 Clashmore’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 Clashmore’s schools
Who runs each school, as listed for 2025/26; the bars give the share of schools of each kind.
2 of Clashmore’s 2 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Waterford & Lismore (2). 1 of the 2 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 2 schools in and around Clashmore
Each school in or within 3 km of Clashmore links to a page of its own. There are no letters or results on these cards, because Ireland publishes none school by school.
Teaching through Irish in and around Clashmore
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 2 schools in and around Clashmore teaches every subject through Irish.
Who Clashmore’s schools serve
The pupils at the area’s schools by share, beside Co. Waterford’s and Ireland’s, 2025/26
Each bar is the area’s share; the tick marks Ireland’s.
| Share of pupils | Around Clashmore | Co. Waterford | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at DEIS schools | 63% | 30% | 27% |
| Pupils at all-Irish schools | 0% | 6% | 6% |
| Girls | 49% | 49% | 49% |
More of the pupils around Clashmore are at DEIS schools than across Ireland: 63% against 27% (Co. Waterford: 30%). 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. an Chlais Mhor (76 pupils).
Each of the 2 schools
| School | Pupils | Girls | DEIS | All-Irish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. an Chlais MhorPrimary | 76 | 54% | ✓ | |
| Ballycurrane N.S.Primary | 44 | 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.
How children get a place in Clashmore
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 2 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 Clashmore’s schools
The Department of Education’s Inspectorate: every school’s reports linked, none rated
The Inspectorate inspects schools in several ways: a whole-school evaluation covers teaching, learning and how the school is led; a subject inspection looks at one subject; a follow-through checks on earlier advice. Reports go on gov.ie with the school’s reply.
Reports say what inspectors found and what should improve, without an overall grade, so none appears here; each of the 2 schools below links its own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. an Chlais MhorPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
| Ballycurrane 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 Clashmore
All post-primaries within 10 km; at about twelve, families choose and apply school by school
The only post-primary school within 10 km of Clashmore is Pobalscoil na Tríonóide, a community school. It takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pobalscoil na TríonóideCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | Irish stream | 1,086 | 7.1 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Clashmore beside the 224 other Irish towns of 200 to 400 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossbarry | 399 | 2 | 184 | 0 | 0% | 8.4 km |
| … | ||||||
| Baylin | 284 | 2 | 533 | 0 | 50% | 5.6 km |
| Emo | 283 | 1 | 207 | 0 | 0% | 6.7 km |
| Toomevara | 283 | 1 | 96 | 0 | 100% | 11 km |
| Duncannon | 281 | 4 | 841 | 0 | 25% | 2.8 km |
| Clashmore | 280 | 2 | 120 | 0 | 50% | 7.1 km |
| Doonbeg | 279 | 1 | 63 | 0 | 0% | 10 km |
| Duagh | 278 | 1 | 166 | 0 | 0% | 6.8 km |
| Palatine | 276 | 1 | 377 | 0 | 0% | 4.2 km |
| The Swan | 275 | 3 | 95 | 0 | 100% | 9.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
More pupils attend the schools around 124 of the other 224 towns than around Clashmore. Within 3 km, 17 of these 225 towns have a school teaching through Irish.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Pupil numbers around Clashmore
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 Clashmore had 142 pupils in 2015/16 and 120 in 2025/26, fewer than before.
Pupils at schools in and around Clashmore
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 Clashmore
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clashmore | 2 | 120 | 0 | 50% | 7.1 km |
| Youghal 6.4 km | 5 | 2,077 | 1 | 20% | 1.3 km |
| Tallow 16 km | 2 | 184 | 0 | 50% | 6.3 km |
| Lismore 16 km | 3 | 1,250 | 0 | 0% | 0.5 km |
| Dungarvan 16 km | 12 | 3,623 | 1 | 25% | 0.5 km |
| Castlemartyr 19 km | 2 | 314 | 0 | 0% | 8 km |
Youghal has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 1. Of Clashmore’s neighbours, Lismore saw the most growth in pupils since 2019/20 (+13%) and Castlemartyr the least (−18%); Clashmore itself: −12%.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Clashmore 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 Clashmore
How many schools are there in Clashmore?
In Clashmore or within 3 km of it: 2 primary schools, with 120 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Clashmore that teach through Irish?
None in Clashmore or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Clashmore?
Not in Clashmore or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Pobalscoil na Tríonóide, 7.1 km away.
What is the best school in Clashmore?
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 Clashmore?
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).