St Brendans Monastery

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 ↗ (2024/25)

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

4 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 3 × Autism/Autistic Spectrum Disorders
• 1 × Mild General Learning Disability

1 of these are newly sanctioned for 26/27, up from 3 classes last year.

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: Birr. 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 R42 (Birr) was €240,000 in 2025. That is up 84.6% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Birr Urban at -9.54 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 30% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Birr

• Carrig N S Primary school, Tipperary
• Ceann Eitigh N S Primary school, Offaly
• Croinchoill N S Primary school, Offaly
• Gaelscoil Na Laochra Primary school, Offaly
• Mercy Primary School Primary school, Offaly
• S N An Cillin Primary school, Tipperary
• S N Flannain Naofa Primary school, Tipperary
• S N Naomh Eoin Primary school, Offaly
• S N Osmann Primary school, Offaly
• Seir Kierans N S Primary school, Offaly
• Shinrone Mixed N S Primary school, Offaly
• St.Brendan's Community School Secondary school, Offaly