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Kilfinnane Girls National School — Chapel Street

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Kilfinnane Girls National School — Chapel Street
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Detached U-plan school, built in 1909, comprising four-bay single-storey recessed centre-bay, two-bay single-storey gabled end bays with lean-to to centre bay and front (north-east) elevation. Three-bay single-storey extension to rear (south-west). Pitched slated roof with limestone copings, red brick eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls having red brick quoins and plinth course. Pair of rusticated cut-limestone plaques inscribed: "KILFINANE [sic] GIRLS NATIONAL SCHOOL 1909". Round-headed openings to gabled end bays having red brick block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to centre-bay, north-west, south-east elevations, and rear elevation with red brick block-and-start surrounds and limestone sills having replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed bipartite opening to school, recessed centre-bay having red brick block-and-start surround, shared limestone sill and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening to lean-to to front with brick block-and-start surrounds having limestone details, glazed overlights over timber battened doors. Limestone steps to entrance. Square-headed opening to rear with brick block-and-start surround, glazed overlights over timber battened door. Pair of square-plan ashlar limestone piers with carved caps, plinths and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Pedestrian entrances with single-leaf cast-iron gates and ashlar piers. Roughcast rendered boundary walls with limestone copings and cast-iron railings.

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