Survey Data
Reg No
30405604
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Castle Hackett Agricultural School
Original Use
School
Date
1840 - 1850
Coordinates
134975, 245180
Date Recorded
27/01/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey school building, built c.1845, now derelict. Pitched slate roof with moulded limestone corbels to eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Two ashlar limestone gabled chimneystacks with moulded string courses and cornices. Dressed limestone walling to front elevation, rendered elsewhere, having plinth course and sparrow-pecked quoins. Evidence of former presence of further bay or bays to north end. Square-headed openings with sparrow pecked surrounds and limestone sills, missing fittings except for single two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to ground floor front. Set back from road with field stone boundary wall to south-east and single-storey flat-roofed outbuilding to rear.
Appraisal
This unusual two-storey schoolhouse is of simple form but has good architectural detailing including corbelled eaves brackets. The building was probably established by the Kirwan Family of Tuam around 1844 and its scale reflects the demand for education in the local area around the mid-nineteenth century and thus has considerable social and architectural significance.