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Detached six-bay single-storey former national school, dated 1935, having separate boy’s and girl’s entrances to the side elevations (north-east and south-west), and with single-storey flat-roofed cloakrooms and toilet blocks to the rear (north-west). Now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof (small slates) to main body of building having clayware ridge tiles, surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with smooth rendered chimneystack to the centre of the front pitch (south-east). Felt roofs to flat-roofed blocks. Smooth rendered walls; cut stone name and date plaque to south-west elevation (facing roads) having incised Gaelic lettering reading 'Scoil Leitin Bruic’, Scoil Naisunta, 1935'. Square-headed window openings having stone sills and remains of three-over three-pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. Timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars to flat-roofed blocks. Square-headed doorways to the side elevations (boys entrance to the south-west and girls entrance to the north-east) having original glazed timber door to girls entrance, replacement timber door to boys entrance, and with projecting rendered surrounds having projecting smooth rendered pilasters, shallow pointed parapets over and with cut stone plaques incised Gaelic lettering reading ‘Buacaillí, Boys’ and ‘Cailíní, Girls’. Set back from road in elevated site overlooking River Finn to the south. Located in the upland rural landscape to the north-west of Ballybofey. Single-storey rubble stone flat-roofed former toilet blocks to the north-east of site, served by flights of steps.
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