St Ailbe's National School

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.

The school received 31 applications in total across every class and every special class. The 11 above is the figure for this intake alone, which is the one that can be compared with the places offered for it.

this notice describes more than one intake — read it directly.

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.

What DEIS means here

DEIS Rural. This is the rural strand: extra literacy and numeracy support, School Completion Programme access and enhanced capitation. It does not carry reduced class sizes.

Worth knowing: several things people associate with DEIS are now available in every school. Schoolbooks are free at primary and post-primary regardless of DEIS status, and since 2025 all primary schools are eligible for the hot school meals programme. What remains specific to DEIS is the staffing — reduced class sizes in Urban Band 1, the Home School Community Liaison coordinator, School Completion Programme access and enhanced capitation.

Band as published in the Department's DEIS list, last revised 2022-10-12.

What DEIS is, band by band, HEAR college entry, and whether it says anything about how good a school is →

Special classes

3 special classes sanctioned for 26/27:

• 3 × 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: Bruff / Hospital. 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 E34 (Tipperary) was €200,000 in 2025. That is up 60.0% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Emly at -7.69 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 27% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Bruff / Hospital

• Ballylanders N S Primary school, Limerick
• Garrydoolis N S Primary school, Limerick
• Hospital Ns Primary school, Limerick
• John The Baptist Community School Secondary school, Limerick
• Kilteely N S Primary school, Limerick
• S N Gallbhaile Primary school, Limerick
• S N Loch Guir Primary school, Limerick
• Scoil Ailbhe Primary school, Limerick
• Scoil Baile An Aird Primary school, Limerick
• Scoil Cnoc Loinge B Primary school, Limerick
• Scoil Dean Cussen Primary school, Limerick
• Scoil Nais Cnoc Aine Primary school, Limerick