Survey Data
Reg No
31306903
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
School
Date
1885 - 1890
Coordinates
114282, 296838
Date Recorded
14/01/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Detached seven-bay single-storey national school, built 1889; extant 1896, on a T-shaped plan originally seven-bay single-storey on a rectangular plan with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed lower porches centred on single-bay (three-bay deep) full-height gabled projecting breakfront; seven-bay single-storey rear (west) elevation. Extended, 1933, producing present composition. Closed, 1971. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves with replacement uPVC rainwater goods to rear (west) elevation on exposed timber rafters. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings centred on paired square-headed window openings below rusticated cut-limestone date stone ("1933") with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows centred on six-over-nine timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings with concrete step thresholds, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered boundary wall to perimeter having concrete coping.
Appraisal
A national school representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century architectural heritage of County Mayo: meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the continued development or "improvement" of the national school in the early twentieth century. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a national school making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan setting.