Gaelscoil Bhreifne

The facts

Getting in

Not oversubscribed last year. The notice carries no previous-year breakdown, which is only required of a school that had more applicants than places.

notice gives places only, no previous-year breakdown.

Read the school's Annual Admission Notice ↗ (2025/26)

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

2 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 2 × 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: Cavan. 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 H12 (Cavan) was €250,000 in 2025. That is up 78.6% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Cavan Urban at -16.93 (Disadvantaged), where 0 is the national average. 24% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Cavan

• Ballyhaise N S Primary school, Cavan
• Breifne College Secondary school, Cavan
• Butlersbridge Ns Primary school, Cavan
• Castletara N S Primary school, Cavan
• Cavan 1 N S Primary school, Cavan
• Corliss N S Primary school, Cavan
• Dromaili S N Primary school, Cavan
• Killyconnan N S Primary school, Cavan
• Killygarry N S Primary school, Cavan
• Kilmore Central N S Primary school, Cavan
• Loreto College Secondary school, Cavan
• Royal School Cavan Secondary school, Cavan