Kilbrien National School

Detached seven-bay double-height national school, dated 1949, with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance block to front on a U-shaped plan having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting flanking end bays. Refenestrated, c.2000. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, roughcast chimney stack, sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat felt roof to entrance bay on a U-shaped plan with cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls with cut-stone date stone/plaque, and rendered band to eaves to entrance block. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.2000, with some replacement fixed-pane uPVC windows, c.2000, to upper level to main block. Square-headed door opening with rendered surround having concrete entablature over, and timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site. Pair of detached three-bay single-storey shelters, built 1949, to north-east and to south-west with square-headed open arcades. Flat concrete roofs. Painted roughcast walls with rendered band to arcade. Square-headed openings forming arcade on painted cast-concrete pillars.

An appealing national school building of compact plan and balanced proportions, built to a design prepared by the Office of Public Works on behalf of the Department of Education. The school is of particular significance as one of the earliest purpose-built educational facilities in the locality. While the school retains its original form and much of its original character, the inappropriate replacement fittings to the window openings have not had a positive impact on the external expression of the composition.