Skibbereen Community 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:

• 2 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• 1 × Severe/Profound General Learning Disability
• 1 × Multiple Disabilities

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: Skibereen. 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 P81 (Skibbereen) was €358,500 in 2025. That is up 70.7% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Skibbereen Urban at -4.75 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 32% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Skibereen

• Abbeystrewry N S Primary school, Cork
• Caheragh Ns Primary school, Cork
• Castletownsend Mxd N S Primary school, Cork
• Drimoleague Junior Sch Primary school, Cork
• Dromdhallagh N S Primary school, Cork
• Gaelscoil Dr M Ui Shuilleabhain Primary school, Cork
• Kilcoe Ns Primary school, Cork
• Lisheen Mixed N S Primary school, Cork
• Maulatrahane Central Ns Primary school, Cork
• Rathmore N S Primary school, Cork
• S N Cleire Primary school, Cork
• S N Ioseph Primary school, Cork