Castletown N.S

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

2 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 2 × 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: Mountrath. 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 R32 (Portlaoise) was €320,000 in 2025. That is up 77.8% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Castletown at -0.2 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 36% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Mountrath

• Camross N S Primary school, Laois
• Cill An Iubhair N S Primary school, Laois
• Cluain Eidhneach N S Primary school, Laois
• Mountrath Community School Secondary school, Laois
• Paddock N S Primary school, Laois
• Rushall N S Primary school, Laois
• Scoil Bhride Primary school, Laois
• St Fintans N S Primary school, Laois
• Trummera N S Primary school, Laois