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Borris Library

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Borris Library
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What is recorded here

Five-bay two-storey over basement Tudor Revival former school, dated 1832, with projecting porches and cut stone dressings. Renovated, c. 1899, with ashlar bell tower and corner finials added. Now in use as hall. Railings to front.

The story behind this place

Five-bay two-storey over basement Tudor Revival former school, dated 1832, with projecting porches and cut stone dressings.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 10400827

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The church and school, Borris, Co. Carlow. The Tudor-Revival schoolhouse (1832, now for other community purposes) has a high tower as if it were a church.
The church and school, Borris, Co. Carlow. The Tudor-Revival schoolhouse (1832, now for other community purposes) has a high tower as if it were a church. · Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original Geograph photograph

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Photo credits
  • Smirkybec, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Carlow Nationalist (publisher); individual photographer not stated, www.carlow-nationalist.ie
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