Ballyduff National School, County Waterford

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Detached four-bay single-storey national school, dated 1902, on an L-shaped plan retaining original aspect with three-bay single-storey return to north-west. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks, timber bargeboards, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted roughcast walls with cut-stone date stone/plaque. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Road fronted with concrete footpath to front.

This school, although now apparently disused or at least no longer in its intended use, is an attractive composition of balanced proportions that retains its original from and massing. The school is of significance as one of the earliest educational facilities surviving in the locality, and one that was established in response to the growing uneducated rural population in Waterford in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. The school, which retains important salient features and materials to the exterior, contributing to the historic character of the site, forms an attractive feature in the streetscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22808005

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