Lislackagh National School

Detached seven-bay single-storey national school, extant 1895, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porch. Closed, 1971. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in cement rendered chimney stacks centred on cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with no rainwater goods to porch on exposed timber rafters. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings centred on paired square-headed window openings below drag edged rusticated cut-limestone plaque with concrete sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing part concrete block-infilled six-over-nine timber sash windows centred on part concrete block-infilled four-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with overgrown thresholds, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Square-headed "Trinity Windows" to side elevations with concrete sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing concrete block infill. Set back from line of road in unkempt grounds with hardcore gravel verge to front.

A dilapidated national school erected to a standardised design for the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland (cf. 31308101) representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century architectural heritage of the environs of Swinford. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a national school making an increasingly forlorn visual statement in a rural setting.