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Mallow National School — Shortcastle Street

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Mallow National School — Shortcastle Street
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Detached national school, built c. 1855, comprising four-bay single-storey block with lower gabled entrance porch to south elevation. Single-bay single-storey flat-roofed recent extension to north elevation. Pitched artificial slate roofs. Snecked rubble limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins and having carved limestone date plaque to south elevation. Square-headed window openings throughout, with brick block-and-start jambs and voussoirs, cut-stone sills and fixed timber windows. West gable has group of three with small-pane windows with oculus above. Square-headed door opening to east end of south elevation with timber panelled half-glazed door, overlight and red brick block-and-start surround. Square-headed opening to porch with render surround and recent timber panelled door. School sited behind another former school and sharing entrance with square-profile dressed limestone piers with cast-iron double-leaf gates.

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