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Rathcoole National School — Main Street

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Rathcoole National School — Main Street
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Detached six-bay single-storey national school, built 1886, on a T-plan. Used as a Scout Hut from 1977, currently unoccupied. Smooth rendered walls with painted brick dressings to openings. Two gables to the front housing the centre four bays of half-boarded fixed pane windows. Cross motif at gable apex with a boarded-up oculus below. Stone plaque (illegible inscription) resting on stone corbels below. Timber tongue and groove doors to flanking bays. Windows set in gables to north-east and south-west blocked with breeze-block. Pitched slate roof with repairs in artificial slate. Small lean-to extension to rere. Limestone rubble wall with rubble coping and red brick gate piers to street front.

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