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Scoil Íosagáin — Saint Patrick's Road

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Scoil Íosagáin — Saint Patrick's Road
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Detached two-bay single-storey convent national school, dated 1924, having advanced gable-fronted three-bay wings to either end of the main elevation (east). Extended to the north in 1967 and again at least once in recent years. Pitched natural slate roofs with some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls. Plaque to centre of main elevation. Square-headed window openings with six-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed doorways to either end of main central block having timber doors flanked by channelled pilasters over projecting plinth pedestals with moulded lintel over, and with tripartite fanlights over having plain rendered surrounds. Set back from road in extensive grounds to the south-west of the centre of Buncrana. Tarmacadam playgrounds and forecourt to site. Site bounded to the west by rubble stone boundary wall with coping over. Gateways to site comprising rubble stone gate piers on (square-plan) having metal gates.

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