Coláiste Cholmcille

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 × 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: Ballyshannon / Donegal. 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 F94 (Donegal) was €200,000 in 2025. That is up 48.1% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Ballyshannon Urban at -11.91 (Disadvantaged), where 0 is the national average. 28% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Ballyshannon / Donegal

• Four Masters Ns Primary school, Leitrim
• Gaelscoil Eirne Primary school, Donegal
• Holy Family National School Primary school, Donegal
• Kilbarron N S Primary school, Donegal
• Magh Ene College Secondary school, Donegal
• Robertson N S Primary school, Donegal
• Rockfield N S Primary school, Donegal
• Scoil Mhuire Primary school, Donegal
• Scoil Naomh Chaitriona Primary school, Donegal
• Scoil Naomh Earnan Primary school, Donegal
• Sn An Br M O Cleirigh Primary school, Donegal
• St Macartans Central Primary school, Donegal