Mount Mercy 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.

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

1 special class sanctioned for 26/27:

• 1 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders

This is the school's first special class.

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: Glasheen / Cork City. 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 Bishopstown A at 3.55 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 62% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Glasheen / Cork City

• Bishopstown Community School Secondary school, Cork
• Bunscoil Chriost Ri Primary school, Cork
• Coláiste An Spioraid Naoimh Secondary school, Cork
• Coláiste Chríost Rí Secondary school, Cork
• Coláiste Daibhéid Secondary school, Cork
• Coláiste Éamann Rís Secondary school, Cork
• Cork Educate Together National School Primary school, Cork
• Cork University Hos School Special school, Cork
• Gaelscoil An Teaghlaigh Naofa Primary school, Cork
• Gaelscoil Ui Riada Primary school, Cork
• Greenmount Monastery Ns Primary school, Cork
• Muire Gan Smal C Primary school, Cork