Survey Data
Reg No
20901809
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
School
Date
1720 - 1725
Coordinates
168927, 110221
Date Recorded
08/09/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay single-storey former school, built 1721, now used as vestry to attached Saint Colman's Church. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cut limestone copings. Smooth rendered walls having limestone plaque with date and inscription. Square-headed window openings to front elevation only, having six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Round-headed central door opening with timber panelled double-leaf door. Open plan interior with square-headed door in north wall leading to nave of church.
Appraisal
This modest building is a rare example of an early eighteenth-century rural Church of Ireland schoolhouse. The simple form of the building is enhanced by the retention of interesting features and material such as slate roof, timber windows and round-headed doorway and limestone plaque.