Gaelscoil Ruairí

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.

notice gives places only, no previous-year breakdown.

Read the school's Annual Admission Notice ↗ (2025/26)

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: Maynooth. 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 W23 (Celbridge) was €484,999 in 2025. That is up 27.6% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Maynooth at 11.13 (Affluent), where 0 is the national average. 66% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Maynooth

• Gaelcholáiste Mhaigh Nuad Secondary school, Kildare
• Maynooth B N S Primary school, Kildare
• Maynooth Community College Secondary school, Kildare
• Maynooth Educate Together National School Primary school, Kildare
• Maynooth Post Primary School Secondary school, Kildare
• Presentation Girls Primary School Primary school, Kildare
• Scoil Oilibheir Naofa Primary school, Meath
• Scoil Ui Fhiaich Primary school, Kildare
• Stepping Stones Special School Special school, Co. Kildare