Ballygarvan N S

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.

check the notice — it lists more than one intake.

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

2 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 2 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders

1 of these are newly sanctioned for 26/27, up from 1 classes last year.

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: Carrigaline. 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 T12 (Cork Southside) was €419,975 in 2025. That is up 42.4% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Ballygarvan at 6.7 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 49% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Carrigaline

• Carrigaline Community School Secondary school, Cork
• Carrigaline Community Special School Special school, Co. Cork
• Carrigaline Educate Together Ns Primary school, Cork
• Edmund Rice College Secondary school, Cork
• Gaelcholáiste Charraig Ui Leighin Secondary school, Cork
• Gaelscoil Charraig Ui Leighin Primary school, Cork
• Holy Well National School (Scoil Tobair Naofa) Primary school, Cork
• Owenabue Etns Primary school, Cork
• Sonas Special Primary Junior School Special school, Co. Cork
• St Mary's Church Of Ireland N.S Primary school, Cork