Your lesson can start at Coláiste Chiaráin, at home or at work, with the pick-up in the price. Castlemungret is your nearest test centre, about 20 minutes away.
Want a driving school in Croom that collects you? We pick you up, teach each one-hour lesson in a dual-controlled car, and tell you honestly when you are ready for Castlemungret.
Students at Coláiste Chiaráin can be collected there, and anyone else from home or work. The pick-up is part of the lesson price, never an extra.
All lessons are with an Approved Driving Instructor, in a car with a brake on each side. Your first drive along High Street happens with that support in place.
If you are a nervous learner, your instructor keeps every lesson calm and unhurried. Old Cork Road and the bigger roads come only when you are ready.
We only suggest booking Castlemungret or Shannon when your driving is at test standard. Until then, you hear honestly what is still missing.
Manual and automatic lessons are both available. The automatic route ends in a code 78 licence for automatics only, while the manual route covers both.
Tell us when you enquire if you would prefer a female instructor, or if anything else would help. We weigh it when we match you.
Your first manual lessons from Croom deal with the car: the clutch, the gears, moving off and stopping without fuss. Junctions and roundabouts come next, then reversing and turning. As those settle, High Street and Ballingarry Road give way to longer drives on Old Cork Road, where you practise speed, spacing and planning ahead. By the final lessons you are driving most of the hour without prompts, which is the standard the test looks for.
Ask about manual lessons ↗
With automatic driving lessons in Croom, the car handles the gears and you concentrate on steering, observation and judgement. You take the same test as a manual learner. Your licence, though, is marked code 78, which limits you to automatic cars, and a manual pass has no such limit. Because instructor times vary from town to town, we confirm an automatic for Croom when you enquire.
Ask about automatic lessons ↗One price list covers Croom and every other town we teach in, and being collected is already part of each price.
Every learner permit holder needs 12 Essential Driver Training lessons with an Approved Driving Instructor before a test. From Croom, they start where we collect you, after school or from home, and each one finishes with a signature in your logbook.
You do not prepare for EDT separately, because the lessons are part of learning to drive, recorded as they happen. Holders of some foreign licences need six rather than 12. The 12 manual lessons together cost €587.95 on our price list.
Castlemungret, one of Limerick's two test centres, is 23.2 km from Croom by road, about 20 minutes. Shannon is further in distance at 40.4 km but only about 30 minutes, which makes it a quicker drive than Newcastle West at about 35. The Mallow centre, about 45 minutes, is a fourth choice.
Before the test you get a pretest: one hour in the area around the centre you chose, close to your date, with the car hired for the test. In an automatic it costs €193.81. You sit the test in the car you trained in, which leaves one less thing to get used to.
The first hour is spent near your pick-up point, where the controls get your full attention. High Street and Main Street come next, then Ballingarry Road. Later lessons take in Old Cork Road for longer, faster drives, always one new step at a time.
Students at Coláiste Chiaráin can start their lesson at the school, the one point we name in Croom. Otherwise, we collect from home or work. Agree the point when you book, and your instructor brings you back there, or to another agreed spot.
We also teach in Adare, which is 7.3 km away in a straight line, and in Patrickswell, 9.1 km. Ballingarry is on our list too. Learners in each are collected in their own town, at the same price as in Croom.
The logbook records your 12 EDT lessons, one signature per hour. For a student at Coláiste Chiaráin that might mean a dozen lessons fitted round the school year, each one signed as you finish. Bring it every time, and once it is complete, your instructor talks you through booking the test.
The EDT guide ↗ Preparing for the test ↗Yes, if we agree the school as your pick-up point. Your instructor meets you there, and at the end of the hour drops you home or back at school, whichever you arranged. Lesson times depend on your instructor and are confirmed when you enquire.
By road, yes. Shannon is about 30 minutes away and Newcastle West about 35, even though Shannon is further in kilometres. Castlemungret, at about 20 minutes, is the nearest of all.
A single manual hour is €53.27, with pick-up and drop-off at your agreed point included. Automatic hours cost a little more, and every price appears on the tickets. Pay online or by phone.
Two things: the theory test, passed, and a learner permit, which the NDLS issues. After that, send the form on this page or call 021 2355558, and tell us whether to collect you at home, at work or at school.
Phone 021 2355558 or fill in the form, and we arrange your first lesson from Coláiste Chiaráin, home or work.
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