Survey Data
Reg No
40903527
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
School
Date
1925 - 1930
Coordinates
206177, 427830
Date Recorded
03/06/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Detached multiple-bay single-storey T-plan national school, dated 1929, having slightly lower gable-fronted porch projection, and single-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves, replacement gutters and cast-iron downpipes, and with yellow brick chimneystacks to gables. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with painted concrete sills and six-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows, and having timber battened doors to porch sides. Plaque to gable-front inscribed: "Scoil Náisiúnta/Dhruim na Ráth/A.D. 1929". Small lean-to outbuilding to rear with corrugated-iron roof. Set near roadside to south of Creeslough, with garden to front having stone boundary wall with rendered coping and square-plan piers with several wrought-iron gates.
Appraisal
Scoil Náisiúnta Dhruim na Ráth [Drumnaraw National School] is a typical small rural school building of early twentieth-century design, built by the Board of Works. It is of social significance to the locality. The arrangement, with the projecting gable-front serving separate entrances, is a reminder of the practice of segregating children by gender. The building retains its early form and character and features, including timber sash windows and the date-stone.