St. Clare's Comprehensive School

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

3 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 2 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• 1 × Moderate General Learning Disability

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: Manorhamilton. 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 F91 (Sligo) was €272,400 in 2025. That is up 94.6% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Manorhamilton at -2.96 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 41% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Manorhamilton

• Ballaghameehan N S Primary school, Leitrim
• Differeen N S Primary school, Leitrim
• Gaelscoil Chluainín Primary school, Leitrim
• Glebe N S Primary school, Leitrim
• Mastersons N S Primary school, Leitrim
• S N Mhic Diarmada Primary school, Leitrim
• S N Naomh Mhuire Primary school, Leitrim
• St Clare's National School Primary school, Leitrim
• St Michaels Ns Primary school, Leitrim
• St Patricks N S Primary school, Cavan