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Saint Fintan's National School — Chapel Street

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Saint Fintan's National School — Chapel Street
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Detached eight-bay single-storey national school, dated 1885, with lean-to porch to rear (south-east). Currently vacant. Pitched slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Timber corbels to eaves of side (south-west and north-east) elevations. Bitumen roof to lean-to addition. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with cut-limestone plaque inscribed: "BANDON/MALE/NATIONAL SCHOOL" and rusticated cut-limestone plaque inscribed: "Scoil Naomh Fhionntain/Scoil Náisiúnta". Camber-headed window openings with render sills to front and rear elevations, having rubbed brick voussoirs and block-and-start surrounds, blocked with timber panels. Square-headed window opening to rear elevation of lean-to with render sill and raised rendered surround, having remains of timber sliding sash window behind corrugated-iron sheeting. Camber-headed door opening to front elevation having rubbed brick voussoirs and block-and-start surrounds. Tooled limestone stepped approach and timber battened door surmounted by multiple-pane overlight. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation having raised render surround (now blocked). Square-headed door opening to side (north-east) elevation of lean-to having rendered stepped approach, raised render reveal and remains of timber battened door. Glazed timber door to interior of lean-to. Flat-roofed toilet block to south. Situated within own grounds on an elevated area with concrete slab paving. Enclosing rendered and roughcast rendered boundary walls having render coping, wrought-iron railings and rendered square-profile piers. Render stepped approach, with double-leaf wrought-iron gates to front (north-west).

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