Macroom Boys Senior National School

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 ↗ (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

4 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 3 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• 1 × Moderate General Learning Disability

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: Macroom. 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 P12 (Macroom) was €346,750 in 2025. That is up 62.4% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Macroom Urban at 0.54 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 38% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Macroom

• Ballinagree Mxd N S Primary school, Cork
• Clondrohid N S Primary school, Cork
• De La Salle College Secondary school, Cork
• Dromleigh N S Primary school, Cork
• Kilbarry N S Primary school, Cork
• Macroom Convent N S Primary school, Cork
• Mcegan College Secondary school, Cork
• S N Carraig An Ime Primary school, Cork
• S N Cill Mhuire B Primary school, Cork
• S N Na Mona Fliche Primary school, Cork
• St Mary's Secondary School Secondary school, Cork
• Tirelton N S Mxd Primary school, Cork