De La Salle College

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: Dundalk. 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 A91 (Dundalk) was €332,000 in 2025. That is up 54.4% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Castletown (North) at -10.76 (Disadvantaged), where 0 is the national average. 29% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Dundalk

• Bellurgan N S Primary school, Louth
• C.B.S. Primary Primary school, Louth
• Castletown Rd Convent Primary school, Louth
• Colaiste Rís Secondary school, Louth
• Coláiste Chú Chulainn Secondary school, Louth
• Dromiskin Mixed N S Primary school, Louth
• Dulargy Mixed N S Primary school, Louth
• Dun Dealgan N S Primary school, Louth
• Dundalk Grammar School Secondary school, Louth
• Faughart Community National School Primary school, Louth
• Gaelscoil Dhun Dealgan Primary school, Louth
• Knockbridge Mixed N S Primary school, Louth