St. Joseph's Cbs Nenagh

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

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: Nenagh. 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 E45 (Nenagh) was €300,000 in 2025. That is up 74.4% since 2020. CSO figures for the whole district, not the streets beside the school.

Area profile: the Pobal HP Deprivation Index rates Nenagh East Urban at -2.56 (Marginally Below Average), where 0 is the national average. 33% of adults there hold a third-level qualification.

Contact

Other schools in Nenagh

• Bishop Harty Ns Primary school, Tipperary
• Bunscoil Na Mbráithre Críostaí Primary school, Tipperary
• Carrig N S Primary school, Tipperary
• Eochaille Ara N S Primary school, Tipperary
• Gaelscoil Aonach Primary school, Tipperary
• Kiladangan N S Primary school, Tipperary
• Nenagh College Secondary school, Tipperary
• Nenagh Community National School Primary school, Tipperary
• Nenagh Community Special School Special school, Tipperary
• Portroe N S Primary school, Tipperary
• S N Ard Croine Primary school, Tipperary
• S N Buirgheas Primary school, Tipperary