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Convent of Mercy — Ballyporeen

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Convent of Mercy — Ballyporeen
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Detached single-storey school, built c. 1885, having six-bay east elevation, four-bay west elevation, lower single-bay entrance porch to north end, and recent prefabricated flat-roofed classroom extension to south. Hipped slate roof with central rendered chimneystack, sheeted eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble sandstone walls with dressed limestone quoins. Pointed arch window openings with brick voussoirs and surrounds, limestone sills and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with Y-tracery to upper sashes. Square-headed timber battened door and pointed arch window to porch. Rendered walls with rendered piers to site boundary with decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

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