S.N. Cnoc Machan
Knockmahon, Bunmahon, Co. Waterford · X42 AD91 · Roll number 18077L
S.N. Cnoc Machan is the only one of the primary schools in or within 3 km of Kill. Every school in and around Kill →
What stands out about S.N. Cnoc Machan
- A small primary school: 6 pupils, against a typical 131.
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Smaller than it was: 6 pupils, 71% fewer than the 21 of 2019/20.
- In 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.
- 2 girls and 4 boys: more of one than the other.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Waterford & Lismore; its ethos is Catholic.
- Outside Kill’s outline, 3.7 km away; listed with Kill, the nearest town in its county.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26S.N. Cnoc Machan had 6 pupils in 2025/26, down from 23 in 2015/16 (−74%). Girls are 33% of them. Its largest roll was 24, in 2016/17. 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 S.N. Cnoc Machan
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 S.N. Cnoc Machan 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 S.N. Cnoc Machan
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 S.N. Cnoc Machan
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to S.N. Cnoc Machan 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.
It is in DEIS, so it has extra support for pupils from disadvantaged areas.
No figures on applications are published, but the roll shows demand: S.N. Cnoc Machan has shrunk by 71% since 2019/20. All the schools around Kill together changed by −29%.
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 S.N. Cnoc Machan. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −71%; 6 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Cnoc Machan | 6 | −71% | Catholic | English | ✓ | |
| S.N. Aine Nfa Seafield | 75 | −9% | Catholic | English | 1.9 km | |
| S N na Cille | 105 | −29% | Catholic | English | 4.1 km | |
| Stradbally C. of Ire. N.S. | 24 | −29% | Church of Ireland | English | 7.2 km | |
| Our Lady of Mercy N.S. | 110 | +15% | Catholic | English | 7.2 km | |
| S.N. Dun Aill | 87 | −26% | Catholic | English | 7.4 km | |
| Scoil Choill Mhic Thomaisin | 133 | −2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 7.9 km |
The other 66 primary schools in Co. Waterford
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S N an Baile Nua | 99 | −12% | Catholic | English | 8.9 km | |
| Fionnabhair N.S. | 172 | +3% | Catholic | English | 9.2 km | |
| S N na bhFiodh | 58 | −22% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Ballyduff N.S. | 214 | −7% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| S.N. Cill Rosanta | 102 | −20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 13 km |
| Holy Cross School | 567 | −12% | Catholic | English | 13 km | |
| S.N. an Garrain Bhain | 225 | +22% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Glor na Mara NS | 381 | −9% | Catholic | English | 14 km | |
| Tramore Educate Together National School | 180 | +51% | Multi-denominational | English | 15 km | |
| Gaelscoil Philib Barún | 194 | −11% | Catholic | All in Irish | 15 km | |
| S N Baile an Bhuitléirigh | 242 | −3% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Clonea N.S. | 66 | +6% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Portlaw N.S. | 214 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 17 km |
| Scoil Gearbhain | 310 | +4% | Catholic | All in Irish | 17 km | |
| S N Dun na Mainistreach | 455 | −4% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| St Saviours N.S. | 330 | +5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 18 km |
| S N na Rinne | 131 | −14% | Catholic | All in Irish | 19 km | |
| S N na Leanai | 42 | −42% | Catholic | All in Irish | 19 km | |
| Scoil Naomh Seosamh | 151 | +14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 19 km |
| St Marys N.S. | 237 | −15% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 19 km |
| Scoil Naomh Gobnait | 107 | −25% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| St Pauls B N.S. | 269 | +19% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 19 km |
| Gaelscoil na nDeise | 225 | −5% | Catholic | All in Irish | 20 km | |
| Waterford Educate Together NS | 386 | +16% | Multi-denominational | English | 20 km | |
| Presentation Primary School | 446 | +7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 20 km |
| Rathgormack B N.S. | 118 | −24% | Catholic | English | 20 km | |
| S.N. Ursula Naofa | 620 | −12% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 20 km |
| Scoil Lorcain BNS | 345 | −1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 21 km |
| An Teaghlaigh Naofa Girls Junior National School | 234 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 21 km |
| Our Lady of Mercy Senior P.s. | 292 | −5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 21 km |
| Mount Sion CBS N.S. | 360 | +10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 21 km |
| S.N. Cill Bhriain | 15 | −56% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Carrickbeg N.S. | 106 | −6% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| St Stephens N.S. | 363 | −11% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 21 km |
| Scoil Naomh Eoin le Dia | 237 | −11% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Christ Church N.S. | 114 | −13% | Church of Ireland | English | 21 km | |
| S.N. Deaglan | 396 | −7% | Catholic | English | 21 km | |
| Newtown Junior School | 112 | −7% | Quaker | English | 21 km | |
| Waterpark N.S. | 235 | +0% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| S.N. Naomh Mhuire | 641 | −5% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| Our Lady of Good Counsel GNS | 187 | −11% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| S.N. an Carraig Liath | 98 | +7% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| Gaelscoil Phort Lairge | 207 | +1% | Catholic | All in Irish | 22 km | |
| S.N. Muire an Port Mor | 212 | +0% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| Glenbeg N.S. | 143 | −3% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| S.N. Baile Mhic Airt | 58 | −3% | Catholic | All in Irish | 24 km | |
| Réalt na Mara National School | 196 | – | Catholic | Some subjects in Irish | 25 km | |
| St. Marys NS Touraneena | 55 | −21% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| S.N. Muire Magh Deilge | 51 | +0% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| S.N. Faiche Liag | 196 | −4% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Passage East N.S. | 101 | +33% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Whitechurch N.S. Ceapach | 104 | +17% | Catholic | English | 29 km | |
| Ballymacarberry N.S. | 155 | −23% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| St Marys N.S. Grange | 60 | −14% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Ballycurrane N.S. | 44 | −2% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Aglish N.S. | 82 | −15% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Bunscoil Gleann Sidheain | 189 | −10% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| S.N. Naomh Deaglan | 94 | −20% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 33 km |
| Villierstown N.S. | 17 | −48% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| S.N. an Chlais Mhor | 76 | −16% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 35 km |
| S.N. Naomh Parthalan | 53 | −28% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Knockanore N.S. | 105 | +15% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| Bunscoil Bhothar na Naomh | 284 | −8% | Catholic | English | 39 km | |
| S.N. Lios Mor Mochuda | 23 | +0% | Church of Ireland | English | 39 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire | 150 | +2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 44 km |
| Ballyduff B 2 N.S. | 108 | −13% | Catholic | English | 47 km |
Living in Kill
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the X42 Eircode area
Housing in Kill →The median sale price rose from €247,000 in 2023 to €250,000 in 2025 (+1%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the X42 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Co. Waterford
Cost of living in Kill →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 Kill, X42 AD91
Primary schools near S.N. Cnoc Machan
Nearest first, as the crow flies, up to 25 km. Each school’s own admission policy decides who gets a place.
Questions about S.N. Cnoc Machan
Is S.N. Cnoc Machan 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 S.N. Cnoc Machan have?
6 pupils in 2025/26. That is −71% since 2019/20.
Does S.N. Cnoc Machan teach through Irish?
No: S.N. Cnoc Machan teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs S.N. Cnoc Machan?
S.N. Cnoc Machan has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Waterford & Lismore.
How do pupils get a place at S.N. Cnoc Machan?
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 S.N. Cnoc Machan?
The nearest are S.N. Aine Nfa Seafield (1.9 km), S N na Cille (4.1 km) and Stradbally C. of Ire. N.S. (7.2 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 Kill; 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).