Little Acorns Community Playschool
Kilcoona, Headford, Co. Galway
Issues noted at last inspection
Inspected 20 January 2026 · View full report
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About This Service
Little Acorns Community Playschool offers a range of services which provides care and education on a full day, part-time and sessional basis to children from 0 to 6 years of age. It has been in operation since 1999 and operating hours are from 08:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday, for 51 weeks of the year. The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme operates within these hours from 09:00 to 12:00, 38 weeks of the year. A school age care service is available in the morning from 08:00 to 09:00 and in the afternoon from 13:30 to 18:30. The service is in the rural village of Kilcoona in north county Galway. There are seven indoor care rooms namely Bluebell, Lilac and Primrose on the ground floor and Peony Rose, Daisy, Marigold 1 and Marigold 2 on the first floor. In addition, there are two outdoor sessional services operating in the large outdoor area namely Acorn Lodge and the Annex Playroom. There are adult and child sanitary facilities both indoors and outdoors, a kitchen where all food is prepared by the cook indoors, a staff room and two sleep rooms. There are five large outdoor play areas located at the rear of the service and a car park is available at the front of the service.
From Tusla inspection report of January 2026 · View source PDF ↗
Tusla Inspection Reports
20 January 2026
30 January 2024
19 July 2022
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Tusla Registration
Early Years Service Registration
Registered with Tusla — Child and Family Agency
Registration ID
TU2015GY128
Capacity
95 children
Age Range
0 months – 6 yrs
Registration data sourced from the Tusla Early Years register.