Ballynacourty National School

Detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone national school, dated 1885, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porch to left. Refenestrated and extended, c.1985, comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed lower return to south. Now disused. Pitched slate roof (gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber eaves. Flat corrugated-iron roof to return with timber eaves. Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone date stone/plaque, and unpainted roughcast lime render to side (east) elevation. Exposed concrete block construction to return. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1985. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from line of road in own grounds with sections of random rubble stone boundary wall to front having rubble stone vertical coping, pair of tooled limestone ashlar piers, and wrought iron gate.

An appealing small-scale school that is of particular significance as one of the earliest surviving purpose-built educational facilities in the locality. The construction in rubble stone with red brick dressings produces an attractive textured effect, and the school retains much of its original form and early character, despite having been decommissioned in the late twentieth century. The school forms a modest feature in the streetscape, the rubble stone boundary wall and early wrought iron gate enhancing the historic quality of the site.