St Columbas N.S

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

6 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 5 × Hearing Impairment
• 1 × HI Early Intervention

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: South Suburbs / 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 Carrigaline/monkstown Rural/douglas at 9.97 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 60% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in South Suburbs / Cork City

• Douglas B N S Primary school, Cork
• Douglas Rochestown Educate Together National School Primary school, Cork
• Rochestown Community Special School Special school, Cork City
• Scoil Nioclais Primary school, Cork
• Scoil Phadraig Naofa Primary school, Cork
• St Lukes N S Douglas Primary school, Cork