S.N. Mhuire
Grahormack, Tagoat, Co. Wexford · Y35 DE08 · Roll number 17769M
S.N. Mhuire is one of 3 primary schools in or within 3 km of Tagoat. Every school in and around Tagoat →
What stands out about S.N. Mhuire
- A small primary school: 64 pupils, against a typical 131.
- Teaches through English, with Irish as a subject.
- Smaller than it was: 64 pupils, 21% fewer than the 81 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.
- The smallest of the 3 primary schools around Tagoat.
- Its patron is the Bishop of Ferns; its ethos is Catholic.
Pupils over time
2015/16 to 2025/26S.N. Mhuire had 64 pupils in 2025/26, down from 100 in 2015/16 (−36%). Girls are 56% of them. Its roll rose in 3 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. Mhuire
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. Mhuire 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. Mhuire
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. Mhuire
Every school admits under its own published admission policy; no admissions numbers are published.
Families apply to S.N. Mhuire 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. Mhuire has shrunk by 21% since 2019/20. All the schools around Tagoat together changed by −13%.
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. Mhuire. Since 2019/20 its roll has changed by −21%; 5 of the 6 grew faster.
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Mhuire | 64 | −21% | Catholic | English | ✓ | |
| Kilrane N.S. | 292 | −11% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 2.4 km |
| Scoil Mhuire | 112 | −12% | Catholic | English | 3 km | |
| S.N. Clochar Mhuire | 156 | −24% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 4.1 km |
| S.N. Baile an Phiarsaigh | 238 | +18% | Catholic | English | 8.2 km | |
| Fionntain Nfa N.S. | 114 | −2% | Catholic | English | 8.7 km | |
| S.N. Bhaile Mhuirne | 230 | −3% | Catholic | English | 10 km |
The other 94 primary schools in Co. Wexford
| School | Pupils | Since 2019/20 | Ethos | Language | DEIS | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faythe Convent | 226 | −22% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 10 km |
| Gaelscoil Loch Garman | 208 | −11% | Catholic | All in Irish | 11 km | |
| CBS Primary Wexford | 380 | +60% | Catholic | English | 11 km | |
| Convent of Mercy | 406 | −7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 11 km |
| Wexford Educate Together National School | 191 | +12% | Multi-denominational | English | 11 km | |
| St Iberius N.S. | 93 | +11% | Church of Ireland | English | 11 km | |
| Scoil Nais Realta na Mara | 304 | −17% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 12 km |
| S.N. Clochar Mhuire | 368 | −5% | Catholic | English | 12 km | |
| Scoil Mhuire Coolcotts | 573 | −4% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 12 km |
| S.N. Mhuire | 336 | +19% | Catholic | English | 15 km | |
| Rathangan N.S. | 235 | −9% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Castlebridge N.S. | 223 | −4% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| Curracloe N.S. | 73 | −22% | Catholic | English | 16 km | |
| S.N. Phadraig | 199 | +9% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| S N na Scrine | 117 | −10% | Catholic | English | 18 km | |
| S.N. an Ghleanna | 138 | −32% | Catholic | English | 19 km | |
| S.N. Fionntain | 183 | −1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 20 km |
| S N Bearna na hAille | 133 | −21% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 22 km |
| S.N. Nmh Brighde | 218 | +6% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| S.N. Baile Muirne | 114 | −3% | Catholic | English | 22 km | |
| S.N. Nmh Seosaimh | 137 | −1% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| S.N. Mhuire | 19 | −17% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 23 km |
| St Garvans N.S. | 88 | −19% | Catholic | English | 23 km | |
| S.N. Mhuire | 144 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 23 km |
| Scoil Eoin Baiste | 32 | −18% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 24 km |
| Glanbrian N.S. | 93 | +9% | Catholic | English | 25 km | |
| S.N. Seosamh Nfa | 227 | +1% | Catholic | English | 26 km | |
| Ballaghkeene N.S. | 150 | +17% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 26 km |
| Clongeen Mxd N.S. | 95 | +0% | Catholic | English | 27 km | |
| S.N. Abbain | 129 | +16% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 28 km |
| St Leonards N.S. | 112 | −7% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Oulart N.S. | 120 | −31% | Catholic | English | 28 km | |
| Newbawn N.S. | 176 | +34% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| St Josephs N.S. | 193 | −4% | Catholic | English | 30 km | |
| Gaelscoil Inis Corthaidh | 184 | −2% | Catholic | All in Irish | 30 km | |
| Kilnamanagh Community National School | 32 | – | Multi-denominational | English | 30 km | |
| St Marys N.S. | 84 | +45% | Church of Ireland | English | 31 km | |
| St Senans National Sch | 437 | −5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 31 km |
| S.N. Baile Ui Coileain | 55 | +0% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 31 km |
| Davidstown Primary School | 92 | +59% | Catholic | English | 31 km | |
| St Aidans Parish School | 869 | +1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 31 km |
| S N Moin na gCaor | 125 | −19% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Clonroche N.S. | 107 | +14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 32 km |
| S.N. Raithin | 154 | +5% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| S.N. Mhaodhoig | 237 | +34% | Catholic | English | 32 km | |
| Gusserane N.S. | 75 | −20% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Shielbeggan Convent | 30 | −29% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| S.N. Pádraig Nfa | 112 | −14% | Catholic | English | 33 km | |
| Court N.S. | 107 | −19% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| Boolavogue N.S. | 97 | −21% | Catholic | English | 34 km | |
| S.N. Baile Cuisin | 155 | −27% | Catholic | English | 35 km | |
| St Joseph's N.S. | 79 | −2% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 36 km |
| Sacred Heart National School, Caim | 88 | −32% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Ramsgrange Central N.S. | 30 | −52% | Catholic | English | 36 km | |
| Marshalstown N.S. | 191 | −3% | Catholic | English | 37 km | |
| S.N. Olibheir Beannuithe | 74 | +6% | Catholic | English | 37 km | |
| S.N. Rath an Iubhair | 187 | −4% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 38 km |
| Rathgarogue N.S. | 159 | −18% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| St Marys N.S. | 201 | −5% | Catholic | English | 38 km | |
| St Edans N.S. | 39 | +22% | Church of Ireland | English | 38 km | |
| S.N. Catriona Nfa | 61 | +7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 39 km |
| Naomh Maodhog N.S. | 285 | +3% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 39 km |
| Scoil Mhuire | 238 | −17% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 39 km |
| S.N. Caislean Dochraill | 37 | – | Catholic | English | 40 km | |
| Bunscoil Nic Amhlaidh | 312 | −5% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 41 km |
| Bunscoil Ris | 351 | −14% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 41 km |
| Ballindaggin N.S. | 117 | −31% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Ballycanew N.S. | 224 | +6% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 41 km |
| Tombrack N.S. | 54 | +8% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Ballyoughter N.S. | 50 | +16% | Catholic | English | 41 km | |
| Camolin N.S. | 75 | −29% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 41 km |
| New Ross Educate Together National School | 135 | +118% | Multi-denominational | English | ✓ | 41 km |
| St Canice S Convent | 186 | −17% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 42 km |
| Kiltealy N.S. | 100 | +8% | Catholic | English | 43 km | |
| Ballyduff N.S. | 79 | +5% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| S.N. Shean Bhoth | 34 | +10% | Catholic | English | 44 km | |
| Riverchapel N.S. | 304 | −16% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 45 km |
| Kilmyshall N.S. | 155 | +8% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| St Patricks N.S. | 75 | −23% | Catholic | English | 46 km | |
| Gaelscoil Mhoshiolog | 152 | −31% | Multi-denominational | All in Irish | 48 km | |
| Gorey Educate Together NS | 369 | −11% | Multi-denominational | English | 48 km | |
| Gorey Central School | 237 | +9% | Church of Ireland | English | 48 km | |
| Bunscoil Loreto | 665 | −5% | Catholic | English | 48 km | |
| S.N. Padraig | 152 | +2% | Catholic | English | 48 km | |
| Scoil Naomh Ioseph | 522 | +4% | Catholic | English | 48 km | |
| Scoil Náisiúnta Bhantiarna Lourdes | 287 | +7% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 48 km |
| Carrigduff Nat School | 85 | −1% | Church of Ireland | English | 49 km | |
| S.N. Treasa Nfa | 106 | −6% | Catholic | English | 50 km | |
| Monaseed N.S. | 55 | −35% | Catholic | English | 52 km | |
| S.N. Chaomhain Torrchoill | 211 | −3% | Catholic | English | 53 km | |
| S.N. Coill an Iarainn | 218 | +25% | Catholic | English | 54 km | |
| Scoil Ghormáin Naofa | 158 | +25% | Catholic | English | 55 km | |
| S.N. Baile Thomais | 57 | −29% | Catholic | English | 58 km | |
| S.N. Cul Greine | 115 | +1% | Catholic | English | ✓ | 58 km |
Living in Tagoat
The town’s figures, not this street’s.
Homes in the Y35 Eircode area
Housing in Tagoat →The median sale price rose from €260,000 in 2023 to €310,000 in 2025 (+19%).
New against second-hand, 2023 to 2025
Property Price Register sales in the Y35 Eircode routing area, 2023 to 2025.
Renting in Co. Wexford
Cost of living in Tagoat →New tenancies in Co. Wexford averaged €1,179 a month in 2025, against €1,101 in 2024 (+7%).
Residential Tenancies Board rent index, new tenancies, 2024 and 2025.
Location
Directions ↗Tagoat, Y35 DE08
Primary schools near S.N. Mhuire
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. Mhuire
Is S.N. Mhuire 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. Mhuire have?
64 pupils in 2025/26. That is −21% since 2019/20.
Does S.N. Mhuire teach through Irish?
No: S.N. Mhuire teaches in English, with Irish as a subject.
Who runs S.N. Mhuire?
S.N. Mhuire has a Catholic ethos. Its patron is Bishop of Ferns.
How do pupils get a place at S.N. Mhuire?
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. Mhuire?
The nearest are Kilrane N.S. (2.4 km), Scoil Mhuire (3 km) and S.N. Clochar Mhuire (4.1 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 Tagoat; 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).