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Detached T-plan eight-bay two-storey school, built in 1878, with gabled breakfront and extensions to rear and west. Set within yard. Pitched tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat and pitched roofs to extensions. Pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered plinth and string course at first floor level, and date plaque to first floor. Stone plaque to gabled breakfront reads: 'St. Brendan's Presentation Schools Opened 2 October 1878'. Replacement uPVC windows with painted sills. Square-headed door openings with replacement uPVC door to east and glazed timber door to south. School yard to rear with flat-roofed bicycle sheds and water tower constructed in 1961. Pitched slate roof with sprocketed eaves to tower. Statue of Saint Brendan stands on bracket to elevation of tower. Plaque beneath reads: 'St. Brendan Abbot of Birr Died 29 Nov 571'. Random coursed stone boundary wall to south, and rendered wall with gate piers and railings to east.
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