Bishop Galvin Ns

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

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: Dublin / 6w. 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 D6W (Dublin 6W) was €722,500 in 2025. That is up 35.7% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Templeogue-cypress at 7.85 (Marginally Above Average), where 0 is the national average. 57% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Dublin / 6w

• Bishop Shanahan Ns Primary school, Templeogue
• Cheeverstown Sp Sch Special school, Knocklyon
• Gaelscoil Mologa Primary school, Harold's Cross
• Harold's Cross NS Primary school, Harold's Cross
• Libermann Spiritan School Special school, Templeogue
• Presentation Community College Secondary school, Terenure
• Presentation Primary, Terenure Primary school, Terenure
• St Mac Dara's Community College Secondary school, Templeogue
• St Pius X BNS (Fortfield Park) Primary school, Terenure
• St Pius X GNS (Fortfield Park) Primary school, Terenure
• Templeogue College Secondary school, Templeogue
• Terenure College Secondary school, Terenure