Creches in Citywest, Saggart & Rathcoole (Dublin 24)

We list 4 services with a Citywest address: Play & Learn Childcare & Education (full daycare, afterschool, breakfast club), Links Childcare (full daycare, part-time, sessional), Cocoon Childcare Citywest (full daycare, part-time, sessional) and Once Upon a Time (full daycare). Services in neighbouring Saggart are listed further down this page.

We list 5 services with a Saggart address: Lily's Childcare The Heritage (The Heritage Centre, Main Street; sessional), Kidorama (Saggart) (20 Slade Castle Wood; full daycare, part-time, sessional, afterschool, breakfast club, naíonra), Dara's Creche (60 Corbally Heath; full daycare, part-time, sessional), Jonix Educational Services (153 Carrig Court, Fortunestown Lane; part-time) and Lily's Childcare Saggart Schoolhouse (Saggart Schoolhouse Community Centre, School Road; sessional). Lily's Childcare The Heritage and Lily's Childcare Saggart Schoolhouse are on Main Street or School Road, in the village itself. For full daycare, the Saggart services listing it are Kidorama (Saggart) and Dara's Creche.

4 of the 7 Rathcoole services we list include full daycare in their listed care type: Happy Feet Early Learning Centre Rathcoole Boys (full daycare, sessional), Grian na nÓg (full daycare, part-time, sessional), Happy Feet Early Learning Centre Blackthorn Hill (full daycare) and Little Saints Creche (full daycare, part-time, sessional). The others are Little Fingers (sessional), Happy Feet Early Learning Centre Community Centre (sessional) and Teach na Leanaí (sessional). Confirm hours and places when you enquire.

We list 17 services in 4 areas: Brittas, Citywest, Rathcoole, Saggart. The list grows as we add services from Tusla’s register, so check the full list for neighbouring areas too.

Each service sets its own fees, so ask for a quote when you enquire. Services in the State’s Core Funding scheme can charge no more than €280 a week for a full-day place of 40 to 49 hours 59 minutes in 2026/27, and the universal NCS subsidy of €96.30 a week brings that to no more than €183.70 (gov.ie). See our guide to creche fees in Dublin.

The National Childcare Scheme can be used at any participating Tusla-registered provider. The universal subsidy is €2.14 an hour for up to 45 hours a week, and the income-assessed subsidy depends on your family’s circumstances (ncs.gov.ie). Services marked NCS above are flagged as participating; for the others, ask the provider. Our NCS calculator gives a weekly estimate.

A child must be 2 years and 8 months old on or before 31 August to start ECCE that September, and it gives 3 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 38 weeks (Citizens Information). For 2026/27, children born between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2023 are eligible (ncs.gov.ie). Read how ECCE works with the NCS.

Early years services must register with Tusla, which publishes inspection reports. Search Tusla’s early years register by the service’s name or Eircode. Our guide to Tusla inspection reports explains how to read them. Our creche ratios guide sets out the staffing rules inspectors check.

They are villages close to Citywest and Saggart in south-west County Dublin, so we group their services here. Tallaght, Clondalkin and Lucan are listed under Nearby below.