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Borris School

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Borris School
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Recorded change of use
Originally school; recorded by the architectural inventory as house
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What is recorded here

Detached five-bay two-storey Tudor Revival former school, c. 1835, on a H-shaped plan comprising three-bay two-storey teacher's block with single-bay double-height gabled projecting flanking classroom blocks. Renovated, c. 1960, to accommodate residential use.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 10400812

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  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
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  • Carlow Nationalist (publisher); individual photographer not stated, www.carlow-nationalist.ie
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