Survey Data
Reg No
31301202
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
School
In Use As
House
Date
1905 - 1910
Coordinates
96463, 334749
Date Recorded
21/03/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey single-cell national school, built 1908; opened 1909; extant 1911, on a rectangular plan. Repaired, 1949. Renovated, 1959. Closed, 1966. Now in occasional alternative use. Pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stack having chamfered capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening approached by two lichen-spotted steps with cut-limestone lintel framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having chamfered capping supporting flat iron gate.
Appraisal
A national school erected to a standardised design for the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland (cf. 31312002) representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century architectural heritage of Contae Mhaigh Eo [north County Mayo]. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a national school making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting.