Scoil Speisialta Tigh Nan Dooley
An Cheathrú Rua · Roll number 20329B
- Special school
- Severe or profound general learning disability
- Multi Denominational ethos
- Not DEIS
- All subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Pupils in 2025/26
- 19
- +3 on 2024/25
- Over 10 years
- +46%
- Up 6 from 13 in 2015/16
- Girls and boys
- 8 / 11
- 42% 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 2008
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
Teachers
Teaching posts and special needs assistants (SNAs) at Scoil Speisialta Tigh Nan Dooley, 2018/19 to 2025/26.
Where these figures come from
The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) allocates each special school its teaching posts and SNAs, and these are its figures as published each year. They're posts, not people: part of a post can be a teacher shared with another school. The NCSE published no figures for special schools for 2020/21 and 2021/22. From 2026/27 it lists a principal and deputy who don't teach a class separately; earlier files don't say how they're counted. Known data issues
In 2025/26
4teaching posts
The NCSE's allocation: about 4.8 pupils per teaching post.
- Teaching postsTeachers for the school's classes, allocated by the NCSE 4
8.66 special needs assistants (SNAs) also work with pupils.
The NCSE has allocated 4 teaching posts, a principal and a deputy principal who don't teach a class, and 9.66 SNAs for next year.
Teachers since 2018/19
Teaching posts each school year. Point at a bar for its SNAs.
Dashed boxes: the NCSE published no figures for special schools for those years. Known data issues
Source: NCSE special school allocations (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby
The special schools closest to Scoil Speisialta Tigh Nan Dooley, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoil Speisialta Tigh Nan DooleyThis school | – | 19 |
+46.2%
|
|
| 1 | St Josephs Special SCH35.2 km · Newcastle, Co. Galway · Moderate general learning disability | 35.2 km | 80 |
+11.1%
|
| 2 | Lakeview School38.0 km · Galway · Mild general learning disability | 38.0 km | 76 |
+61.7%
|
| 3 | Rosedale School38.1 km · Galway · Severe or profound general learning disability | 38.1 km | 75 |
+10.3%
|
| 4 | Scoil Aine40.8 km · Galway | 40.8 km | 45 |
+95.7%
|
| 5 | Ábalta Special School40.9 km · Galway · Autism | 40.9 km | 30 |
+66.7%
|
Special classes within 10 km2 classes in 2 mainstream schools in 2025/26, from the NCSE
| Number on map | School | Distance | Classes | 2026/27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | SN Mhic Dara0.2 km · An autism classFirst special class opens in 2026/27 | 0.2 km | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | S N Coilm Cille4.1 km · An autism class | 4.1 km | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | S N Choilm Chille7.7 km · An autism class | 7.7 km | 1 | 1 |
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
- Peigí Ní Chonghaile
- Phone
- 091595129
- [email protected]
- Address
- An Cheathrú Rua, Co na Gaillimhe, H91 P5K2
School
- Ethos
- Multi Denominational
- NCSE designation
- Severe or profound general learning disability
- Patron
- Ability West
- School type
- Special school
- DEIS
- Not DEIS
Language and area
- Irish classification
- All subjects through Irish
- Gaeltacht
- Gaeltacht
- Island
- Not on an island
- Local authority
- Galway County Council
- Planning area
- Carraroe
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
18 school years from 2008/09 to 2025/26.
| Year | Total | Girls | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 19 | 8 | 11 |
| 2024/25 | 16 | 7 | 9 |
| 2023/24 | 16 | 8 | 8 |
| 2022/23 | 14 | 8 | 6 |
| 2021/22 | 12 | 6 | 6 |
| 2020/21 | 15 | 7 | 8 |
| 2019/20 | 15 | 6 | 9 |
| 2018/19 | 12 | 8 | 4 |
| 2017/18 | 14 | 7 | 7 |
| 2016/17 | 14 | 7 | 7 |
| 2015/16 | 13 | 6 | 7 |
| 2014/15 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| 2013/14 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| 2012/13 | 11 | 5 | 6 |
| 2011/12 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| 2010/11 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| 2009/10 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| 2008/09 | 8 | 3 | 5 |