Cashel National School

Detached five-bay single-storey national school, dated 1910; extant 1924, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porches centred on single-bay full-height gabled projecting breakfront. Closed, 1972. For sale, 1972. Renovated to accommodate occasional alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan extending into lean-to slate roofs centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stacks centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack on axis with ridge having lichen-covered chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, coping to gable to porch on thumbnail beaded kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls. Square-headed window openings centred on paired square-headed window openings below rusticated cut-limestone[?] date stone ("1910") with cut-limestone sills[?], and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows centred on replacement timber casement windows replacing two-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Set back from road in landscaped grounds.

A national school erected to a standardised design for the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland (cf. 31308106) representing an integral component of the early twentieth-century architectural heritage of the environs of Swinford. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a national school making a pleasing visual statement in rural street scene.