Crannog Nua Special School
Portrane · Roll number 20136N
- Special school
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 5
- −1 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- −50%
- Down 5 from 10 in 2015/16
- Over 20 years: −58% from 12 in 2005/06, while it was still adding classes
- Girls and boys
- 2 / 3
- 40% girls
The Department of Education publishes only the number of pupils, girls and boys in each special school, not pupils by class, so this page has no class or class size figures. Pupils in special schools can be aged 4 to 18. All special schools
Pupils since 2001
Total enrolment each school year
Shaded: the last 10 years, 2015/16 to 2025/26. Until 2010/11 the Department listed special schools with mainstream schools; from 2011/12 they have their own list. Pupils on 30 September each year. Known data issues
Nearby
The special schools closest to Crannog Nua Special School, and the mainstream schools within 10 km that have special classes, measured in a straight line.
Nearest special schools
| Number on map | School | Distance | Pupils | Since 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crannog Nua Special SchoolThis school | – | 5 |
−50.0%
|
|
| 1 | St Michaels Spec SCH8.3 km · Skerries, Co. Dublin · Moderate general learning disability | 8.3 km | 30 |
0.0%
|
| 2 | St Michaels House Special School10.3 km · Dublin 13 · Physical disability | 10.3 km | 56 |
+5.7%
|
| 3 | ABACAS Kilbarrack11.9 km · Dublin 5 · Autism | 11.9 km | 54 | – |
| 4 | St Michael's House Special National School Foxfield11.9 km · Dublin 5 · Autism | 11.9 km | 61 | – |
| 5 | St Michaels Hse SP SCH12.3 km · Dublin 5 · Moderate general learning disability | 12.3 km | 52 |
−10.3%
|
Special classes within 10 km44 classes in 21 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | St Patricks Boys National School1.4 km · 2 autism classes | 1.4 km | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Donabate/Portrane Educate Together NS2.0 km · 2 autism classes | 2.0 km | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | Gaelscoil na Mara2.0 km · An autism class | 2.0 km | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Rush and Lusk Educate Together NS5.0 km · 2 autism classes | 5.0 km | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Scoil Nais Caitriona5.0 km · 3 autism classes | 5.0 km | 3 | 3 |
| 11 | St Oliver Plunkett5.4 km · 2 specific learning disability classes | 5.4 km | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Lusk Junior National School St Maccullins5.5 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 5.5 km | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Corduff N S5.7 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 5.7 km | 0 | 1 |
What parents would prefer
In the Department of Education and Youth's Primary School Survey (November–December 2025), parents said whether they would prefer this school to be co-educational or single-sex, to have a denominational or multi-denominational patron, and to teach through Irish or English. These are preferences, not applications or enrolments.
Too few parents answered for the Department to publish this school's results (1 household were asked). Their answers still count in the Donabate planning area's figures, below.
| Parents of | Multi-denominational | Through Irish | Single-sex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donabate planning area · children at school | 66% | 21% | 13% |
| Donabate planning area · children not yet at school | 66% | 28% | 13% |
| Ireland · children at school | 44% | 20% | 5% |
| Ireland · children not yet at school | 47% | 26% | 6% |
Source: Department of Education and Youth, Primary School Survey results, published 23 June 2026. Planning-area and Ireland figures also count parents at schools where too few answered for the school to get its own results. About these figures
About this school
Inspection reports open on gov.ie, under the name the school had when it was inspected. Newer schools may not have one yet.
Contact
- Principal
- Linda Halpin
- Phone
- 019213000
- [email protected]
- Address
- Crannóg Nua Special School, Portrane, Co. Dublin, K36 TY03
School
- Ethos
- Multi Denominational
- Patron
- Dublin & Dún Laoghaire ETB
- School type
- Special school
- DEIS
- Not DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- No subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Non-Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- Fingal County Council
- Planning area
- Donabate
Each detail is the latest one the Department of Education has recorded for this school. The designation is the need the NCSE lists the school as set up for; many special schools now take pupils with a wider range of needs. Known data issues
Data by year
25 school years from 2001/02 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024/25 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023/24 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2022/23 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2021/22 | 9 | 8 | 1 |
| 2020/21 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 2019/20 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2018/19 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2017/18 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 2016/17 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2015/16 | 10 | 2 | 8 |
| 2014/15 | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| 2013/14 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 2012/13 | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| 2011/12 | 15 | 9 | 6 |
| 2010/11 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| 2009/10 | 10 | 5 | 5 |
| 2008/09 | 9 | 5 | 4 |
| 2007/08 | 11 | 4 | 7 |
| 2006/07 | 13 | 4 | 9 |
| 2005/06 | 12 | 6 | 6 |
| 2004/05 | 13 | 5 | 8 |
| 2003/04 | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2002/03 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001/02 | 0 | 0 | 0 |