What is recorded here
Drumsna National School has iron vents in the walls and more along the roof. Someone designed a whole building around letting air escape, then filled it with children expected to keep everything in.
Detached eight-bay single-storey former national school, built in 1891, now vacant. Pitched slate roof with over-sailing eaves with timber brackets, terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron roof vents to ridge. Roughcast rendered walls with cast-iron rainwater goods. Cast-iron vents to walls. Timber casement windows with tooled limestone sills and timber battened door with overlight. Date plaque to front elevation.
This modest school is enhanced by the retention of several original features and materials such as slate roof, timber windows and cast-iron vents. It is testimony to the educational history of Drumsna and is of social and architectural importance.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30815011
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Suse, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Unknown Weaver, English (active c. 1080), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Reading Tom, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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