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Castlehacket National School — BIGGERA BEG

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Castlehacket National School — BIGGERA BEG
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Detached five-bay two-storey school building, built c.1845, now derelict. Pitched slate roof with moulded limestone corbels to eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Two ashlar limestone gabled chimneystacks with moulded string courses and cornices. Dressed limestone walling to front elevation, rendered elsewhere, having plinth course and sparrow-pecked quoins. Evidence of former presence of further bay or bays to north end. Square-headed openings with sparrow pecked surrounds and limestone sills, missing fittings except for single two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to ground floor front. Set back from road with field stone boundary wall to south-east and single-storey flat-roofed outbuilding to rear.

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