Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Clonsilla National School — Porterstown Road

school
View what I want to do
Clonsilla National School — Porterstown Road
Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Detached single-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey over raised basement national school, built 1853; opened 1854, on a rectangular plan with pair of single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porches framing single-bay two-storey gabled projecting breakfront. Closed, 1963. Disused, 2000. ROOF: Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with ridge tiles, coping to gables on ogee kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on saw tooth-detailed red brick header bond eaves with cast-iron downpipes. WALLS: Roughcast coursed rubble stone walls on rendered chamfered cushion course on roughcast base. OPENINGS: Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement with rendered surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (breakfront) with rendered surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber casement windows. Pointed segmental-headed door openings approached by flights of five steps with rendered surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded doors. SITE: Set in unkempt grounds.

This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.