Ballinafad National School

Detached four-bay single-storey T-plan former school, built 1830, with central two-bay entrance projection to front added 1925. Now in use as house. Pitched replacement artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls, plinth and painted limestone date plaque to front of projection and with rendered soffit to eaves. Square-headed window openings having concrete sills, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front and rear elevations, fixed timber windows with single-pane awnings to projection. Square-headed door openings to sides of projection having stone steps and battened timber doors. Rubble stone and timber boundary walls with rubble gate piers having concrete capping and decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

This building is a typical example of an early nineteenth-century rural school house, with an early twentieth-century addition, the latter constructed after the formation of the Free State in 1922. The school has been converted to a house and still retains much of its historic fabric, such as the varied timber windows and doors.