Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainThe schools around Killinierin have grown: pupils +25% since 2019/20, more than around Co. Wexford’s towns or Irish towns
For Killinierin, that is above both Co. Wexford’s towns (+5%) and Irish towns (+4%). S.N. 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.
What stands out about Killinierin’s schools
More pupils every year
Pupil numbers at the schools here have grown faster than across Ireland (+5% since 2019/20), so classes and new places are a question worth asking. Pupils over time ↓
One school growing fast
The fastest-growing school here is S.N. Coill an Iarainn: 174 pupils in 2019/20, 218 now. Getting a place ↓
Drawn from the Department of Education’s lists; none of it judges how well a school teaches.
Where the school in or near Killinierin is
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 Killinierin’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.
Pupil numbers around Killinierin
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 Killinierin had 146 pupils in 2015/16 and 218 in 2025/26.
Pupils at schools in and around Killinierin
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.
Teaching through Irish in and around Killinierin
How many schools teach through each language; the tick marks Ireland’s share.
None of the 1 schools in and around Killinierin teaches every subject through Irish.
Who runs Killinierin’s schools
Ethos as listed for 2025/26: each bar splits the schools by who runs them.
1 of Killinierin’s 1 schools have a Catholic ethos, against 80% across Ireland. Their patron: Bishop of Ferns (1). None of the 1 is 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.
How children get a place in Killinierin
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.
The school in and around Killinierin
Each school in or within 3 km of Killinierin links to a page of its own. Results by school aren’t published in Ireland, so the cards carry none.
Inspection reports for Killinierin’s schools
The Inspectorate’s published reports for each school, linked, without ratings
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; the link below opens the school’s own.
| School | Reports on gov.ie |
|---|---|
| S.N. Coill an IarainnPrimary | Inspection reports ↗ |
Department of Education Inspectorate reports on gov.ie, found by each school’s roll number.
Post-primary schools within reach of Killinierin
Every post-primary school within 10 km of the town; families choose and apply to each, at about twelve
Within 10 km of Killinierin there are 3 post-primary schools: one voluntary secondary school, one community school and one ETB school. Every one of them takes girls and boys. None within 10 km teaches every subject through Irish.
| School | Takes | Also | Pupils | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gorey Educate Together Secondary SchoolVoluntary secondary · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | DEIS | 323 | 5.4 km |
| Gorey Community SchoolCommunity school · Inter-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,546 | 6.3 km |
| Creagh CollegeETB · Multi-denominational | Girls and boys | – | 1,061 | 6.3 km |
Department of Education post-primary list 2025/26; straight-line distances from the town’s centre point.
Killinierin 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 |
| … | ||||||
| Coolboy | 272 | 1 | 68 | 0 | 0% | 6.4 km |
| Ballyclogh | 272 | 1 | 111 | 0 | 0% | 6.9 km |
| Butlersbridge | 271 | 1 | 261 | 0 | 0% | 3.6 km |
| Kinnitty | 270 | 1 | 132 | 0 | 0% | 9 km |
| Killinierin | 270 | 1 | 218 | 0 | 0% | 5.4 km |
| Kernanstown | 269 | 5 | 2,556 | 2 | 20% | 2.6 km |
| Newtown | 269 | 4 | 181 | 0 | 75% | 9.5 km |
| Galbally | 269 | 1 | 135 | 0 | 0% | 12 km |
| Drumsna | 268 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5.7 km |
| … | ||||||
| Lahardane | 200 | 1 | 76 | 0 | 0% | 7.1 km |
Of these 224 other towns, 57 count more pupils at their schools than Killinierin. Teaching through Irish is on offer within 3 km in 17 of the 225.
Department of Education school lists 2025/26 (preliminary); CSO Census 2022 populations.
Schools in the towns around Killinierin
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
Arklow has the most schools teaching through Irish nearby: 2. Since 2019/20 the pupils around Killinierin changed by +25%; among its neighbours, Gorey’s grew most (+10%) and Aughrim’s least (−18%).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school in Killinierin 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 Killinierin
How many schools are there in Killinierin?
In Killinierin or within 3 km of it: 1 primary school, with 218 pupils between them.
Are there schools in Killinierin that teach through Irish?
None in Killinierin or within 3 km of it teaches every subject through Irish; some teach it as a subject only.
Is there a secondary school in Killinierin?
Not in Killinierin or within 3 km of it; the nearest is Gorey Educate Together Secondary School, 5.4 km away.
What is the best school in Killinierin?
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 Killinierin?
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).