Lauragh National School, County Kerry

What is recorded here

Lauragh National School in Lauragh Lower got its extra room in 1998, having opened in 1862. A hundred and thirty-six years to get an extension: let any teacher here complain about late homework.

Detached five-bay single-storey schoolhouse, dated 1862, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre. Extension to rear to south-east, built 1998. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and rendered chimneystack having ashlar quoins below roofline. Painted rendered walls with exposed ashlar quoins and limestone carved name and date plaque. Limestone ashar lintels, sills and reveals to replacement timber windows. Limestone door surrounds with chamfered reveals to replacement timber boarded doors, approached by limestone steps. Rubble stone retaining wall to road.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21310801

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