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Knockmahon National School

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Knockmahon National School
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Detached six-bay double-height national school, dated 1956, retaining some original fenestration with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed parallel range to north-west having pair of two-bay single-storey flat-roofed return blocks with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed water tower to west, and three-bay single-storey flat-roofed flanking shelters to north and to south (on a curved plan to south) having open arcades. Part refenestrated, c.1980. Pitched slate roof to main block with clay ridge tiles, roughcast chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat concrete roofs to remaining portions. Painted roughcast walls with cut-stone date stone/plaque. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills. Replacement aluminium casement windows, c.1980, to main block retaining 6/6 timber sash windows to remainder. Square-headed door openings with glazed timber doors, and sidelights. Square-headed openings to shelters forming open arcade on concrete piers. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site.

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