Survey Data
Reg No
20514946
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Prison/jail
In Use As
School
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
167894, 71328
Date Recorded
21/11/1994
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached five-bay two-storey penitentiary building, c. 1840; now in use as school and linked to other school buildings, having slate pitched roof, rendered chimney stacks and cast iron hoppers and downpipes, random sandstone and limestone finish with squared limestone to corners, yellow brick arches over openings and rendered surrounds, retaining six over six timber sliding sash windows, some of the glazing replaced, limestone cills and square headed door opening with modern entrance door, fire exit to rear elevation with external steel stairs; part of Scoil Eoin Naofa complex with limestone rubble wall to Sawmill Street and ashlar gate piers with wrought iron gates.
Appraisal
Substantial mid nineteenth-century building which, although incorporated into the modern complex of St. John's Central College complex, retains significance as the former 'Cork Female Refuge and Penitentiary'.