Scoil Barra

The facts

Getting in

Hard. 110 applications for 54 places in 2025/26 — 2.04 applicants per place.

Ratio calculated against the previous year's places, as stated in the notice.

read from the school's Annual Admission Notice.

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 × Specific Speech and Language Disorder

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: Ballincollig. 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 P31 (Ballincollig) was €440,000 in 2025. That is up 31.3% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Ballincollig at 7.3 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 52% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Ballincollig

• Ballincollig Community School Secondary school, Cork
• Clogheen Mxd N S Primary school, Cork
• Coláiste Choilm Secondary school, Cork
• Gael Scoil Ui Riordain Primary school, Cork
• Gaelscoil An Chaisleáin Primary school, Cork
• Gogginshill N S Primary school, Cork
• Le Cheile Secondary School Ballincollig Secondary school, Cork
• Our Lady Of Good Counsel Ns Special school, Cork
• Ovens N S Primary school, Cork
• S N Baile Nora Primary school, Cork
• S N Naomh Eoin B Primary school, Cork
• Scoil Naomh Mhuire C Primary school, Cork