Presentation / De La Salle College

The facts

Getting in

Oversubscribed last year. The notice carries a previous-year breakdown, which schools only have to publish when more people applied than there were places.

notice gives places only, no previous-year breakdown.

Read the school's Annual Admission Notice ↗ (2026/27)

Ireland has no catchment areas. A place depends on the school's own oversubscription criteria — siblings, feeder school, parish, distance, date of application — not on where you live. Read the admissions policy for those.

Special classes

3 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 3 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Source: National Council for Special Education. Children in a special class travel under a separate transport scheme with its own rules.

The area around this school

School planning area: Bagenalstown. This is how the Department plans where to build capacity. It is not a catchment.

Local house prices: the median residential sale price in Eircode district R21 (Mhuine Bheag) was €250,000 in 2025. That is up 61.3% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Muinebeag Urban at -11.73 (Disadvantaged), where 0 is the national average. 23% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Bagenalstown

• Baile An Chuilinn N S Primary school, Carlow
• Coláiste Aindriú Secondary school, Carlow
• Newtown Dunleckney Mxd Primary school, Carlow
• Our Lady's National School Primary school, Carlow
• Queen Of Universe N S Primary school, Carlow
• S N Fhoirtcheirn/Fhinin Primary school, Carlow
• S N Nmh Fhingin Primary school, Carlow
• Scoil Bhride B7C Primary school, Kilkenny
• Scoil Nais Molaise Primary school, Carlow
• St Bridgets Monastery Boys Senior School Primary school, Carlow
• St Laserians Mxd Ns Primary school, Carlow
• St Marys N S Primary school, Carlow