Survey Data
Reg No
11901809
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Scoil Bhríghde
Original Use
School
In Use As
School
Date
1925 - 1930
Coordinates
276147, 217742
Date Recorded
21/10/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey national school, dated 1926, on a T-shaped plan with two-bay single-storey gabled projecting entrance bay to centre. Reroofed, c.1980. Refenestrated, c.1995. Gable-ended roof (gabled to projecting entrance bay). Replacement fibre-cement slate, c.1980. Concrete ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stacks. Louvered vent to apex. Overhanging timber eaves and bargeboards. Replacement aluminium rainwater goods, c.1980. Rendered walls. Painted. Cut-stone date stone/plaque. Square-headed window openings. Concrete sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1995. Square-headed door opening. Timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam yard to site.
Appraisal
Saint Brigid's National School is a fine, small-scale building of the early twentieth century that was built to the designs of the Board of Works on behalf of the Board of Education. Of considerable social and historic significance the school was built to address the educational needs of the rural sector of the country. Although built on the simplest of plans comprising a single room with entrance bay, the school is afforded much presence through the use of tall window openings while functional pieces, such as the air vent to the apex of the roof, are carried out with artistic effect. Well maintained, the school retains some of its original character. Set within a tarmacadam yard, the bare surroundings (which have recently been partly built up with newer school buildings, c.1960) serve to emphasise the presence of the building, despite its diminutive scale.