Rathnew National School, County Wicklow

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Detached three-bay single-storey school house of 1888, presently unused. The façade is in uncoursed rubble stone rough granite quoins and brick dressings to the windows, whilst the gable-ended pitched roof is covered in artificial slate with small replacement brick chimneystacks. To the south-facing front there is a gabled porch with plain sheeted timber entrance door. Above the doorway is a cut-granite date stone inscribed: "RATHNEW/NATIONAL SCHOOL/1888". The flat-headed windows have replacement timber frames with hopper openers. A tall rubble wall extends from the front porch enclosing the grounds of the building.

A good example of a small late 19th-century National school whose value lies in its simple unadorned form. An asset to the streetscape, though presently in poor condition.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 16315010

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