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Coláiste na Rinne [Ring College]

handball alley
Coláiste na Rinne [Ring College]
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What is recorded here

Freestanding handball alley, c.1935. Unpainted mass-concrete walls with mass-concrete buttresses to north-west forming pair of subsidiary practice courts. Set back from road in shared grounds.
A structure of significance having been built as part of a nation-wide cultural identity movement instigated following the establishment of the Independent State. The handball alley is of some vernacular interest, being a building type indigenous to Ireland.

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