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school — Ballynahown

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Detached four-bay two-storey former national school, built 1863 and remodeled in 1924, with flanking single-bay single-storey porches to either side (southeast and northwest) and a two-storey return to rear (northeast). Now in use as retail outlet. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks to either end and with a metal air vent to the centre. Roughcast rendered walls with quoins to the corner, now flush with facade. Date plaque with Irish inscription to centre of front façade, above ground floor openings. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to main body of building and modern windows to front faces of porches (southwest), now partially infilled but originally having doors. Set slightly back from road with rubble stone wall to road frontage (south) having crenellated coping over. Gravel yard/carpark to rear (northeast). Located adjacent to the west of the Roman Catholic church (15403512) at Ballynahown.

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