What is recorded here
Keshcarrigan Vocational School was Leitrim’s first, and went into practical education with Georgian sash windows and a grand pediment over the double doors. That’s an Irish parent’s ambitions in one building: “Learn a trade, certainly, but come in through the front so the neighbours think you’re a barrister.”
Detached L-plan seven-bay single-storey vocational school, built 1935. Closed, 1969. Now disused. Extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls. Timber sash windows. Pedimented entrance with timber panelled and glazed double doors and eight-pane overlight. Sheds to north. Wrought-iron gates to front of site.
The vocational school in Keshcarrigan was the first such school built in County Leitrim. Although neglected, and in poor repair, the form survives intact with original fabric including the double doors, conventional Georgian sash windows and slated roof.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30928003
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