Bunscoil Fachtna
Rosscarbery · Roll number 20599H
- Catholic ethos
- Not DEIS
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 173
- Figures start
- 2025/26
- With 173 pupils. A new roll number like this often follows an amalgamation.
- Girls and boys
- 77 / 96
- 45% girls
Pupils since 2025
Total enrolment each school year
Pupils by class
Published for each class from 2025/26.
This year, 2025/26
173 pupils across 8 classes
Every class, every year
Darker cells have more pupils. A group of pupils moves down one class and right one year.
| 2025/26 | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Junior Infants | 22 | 22.0 |
| Senior Infants | 24 | 24.0 |
| 1st Class | 16 | 16.0 |
| 2nd Class | 22 | 22.0 |
| 3rd Class | 24 | 24.0 |
| 4th Class | 21 | 21.0 |
| 5th Class | 18 | 18.0 |
| 6th Class | 26 | 26.0 |
JI and SI are Junior and Senior Infants.
Class sizes
Mainstream class groups, 2025/26 to 2025/26.
Why these won't match pupils by class
Mainstream class groups only. The source does not identify which standard/year group each class group belongs to. So these figures won't match the pupils-by-class figures exactly.
In 2025/26. Choose a figure to chart it.
Class sizes over time
Average class size, 2025/26 to 2025/26
Teachers
Who teaches at Bunscoil Fachtna, 2025/26 to 2025/26.
How we count teachers
Class teachers come from the Department of Education's class sizes: one for each mainstream class. Special education and special class teachers are the posts the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) allocates. We add a principal who doesn't teach a class where the Department's rules give the school one. These are posts, not people: part of a post can be a teacher shared with another school. Up to 2015/16 the Department counted every teacher itself. Known data issues
In 2025/26
11.5teaching posts
Our estimate: about 12 teachers.
- Class teachersOne for each of the 8 mainstream classes 8
- PrincipalRuns the school and doesn't teach a class 1
- Special education teachers62.5 hours of support teaching a week 2.5
3.5 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 2.5 special education teachers and 3.5 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2025/26
Teachers each school year, by role
From 2019/20: our estimate, from class sizes and the NCSE's allocations. Known data issues
Sources: Department of Education class sizes and teacher counts; NCSE school allocations and special classes (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby schools
The 6 primary schools closest to Bunscoil Fachtna, measured in a straight line. Pupil numbers are for 2025/26.
| Number on map | School | Distance | Pupils | Since 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bunscoil FachtnaThis school | – | 173 | – | |
| 1 | Lisavaird MXD N S5.2 km · Clonakilty | 5.2 km | 70 |
+18.6%
|
| 2 | S N Chuan Doir5.2 km · Glandore | 5.2 km | 71 |
+16.4%
|
| 3 | S N Re na Scrine5.2 km · Rosscarbery | 5.2 km | 50 |
+117.4%
|
| 4 | S N Rath A Bharraigh5.9 km · Clonakilty | 5.9 km | 35 |
−38.6%
|
| 5 | SN Cill Mhic Abhaidh7.8 km · Leap | 7.8 km | 40 |
+5.3%
|
| 6 | S N an Aird8.0 km · Clonakilty | 8.0 km | 111 |
+70.8%
|
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.
Children at this school
Their parents: 33 of 92 households answered (36%). The true figures are likely within 13.8 points either way.
Patron
Teaching language
Boys and girls
Children not yet at school
Fewer than 30 parents of children not yet at school chose this school, so the Department didn't publish their answers.
The bracket shows the margin of error the Department published for this school: 13.8 points either way.
| Parents of | Multi-denominational | Through Irish | Single-sex |
|---|---|---|---|
| This school · children at school | 64% | 21% | 0% |
| Roscarbery planning area · children at school | 57% | 22% | 1% |
| Roscarbery planning area · children not yet at school | 59% | 33% | 1% |
| 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. They describe specific areas of the school's work rather than giving an overall grade. Newer schools may not have one yet.
Contact
- Principal
- Sarah O' Brien
- Phone
- 0238848023
- [email protected]
- Address
- Ardagh East, Rosscarbery, P85 VP86
School
- Ethos
- Catholic
- DEIS
- Not DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- No subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Non-Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- Cork County Council
- Planning area
- Roscarbery
Each detail is the latest one the Department of Education has recorded for this school. If a detail was left blank in 2025/26, we show it from an earlier year, so some details may be older than the pupil numbers. Known data issues
Data by year
1 school year from 2025/26 to 2025/26. Class figures start in 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys | JI | SI | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 173 | 77 | 96 | 22 | 24 | 16 | 22 | 24 | 21 | 18 | 26 |