Survey Data
Reg No
14309003
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
School
In Use As
School
Date
1935 - 1940
Coordinates
273130, 283051
Date Recorded
10/05/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached multiple-bay single-storey national school, built 1938. Comprising of nine-bay double-height hipped roofed central block, with projecting flat-roofed block to front and side elevations. Seven-bays to flat-roofed entrance block, with flanking five-bay flat-roofed projections. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered string course and plinth course. Hipped tile roof with louvered vents. Timber sash windows with concrete sills. Rendered door surround, with concrete step, timber door and carved stone name plaque above. Flat-roofed playground shelters with concrete columns and timber seating. Bounded by roughcast rendered walls with geometric patterned steel railings and gate.
Appraisal
The newly independent Irish Free State was involved in providing social housing, hospitals and schools in the 1930s. Clearly architectural in form and plan, strong horizontality is expressed by the use of flat roofs and a string course. This school retains many of its original features and materials such as the timber sash windows, date plaque, concrete shelters and steel gates.