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Detached three-bay single-storey former national school on T-shaped plan, built 1856, having projecting gable-fronted entrance porch to the centre of the main elevation (south-east). Now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof to main body of building having projecting cut stone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods; pitched natural slate roof to gable-fronted projection having projecting stone eaves course, rendered rubble stone chimneystack with cut stone coping, and with raised cut stone coping over gable to the south-east gable end. Squared uncoursed rubble stone masonry having flush dressed, bush-hammered block-and-start quoins to the corners to the front elevation (south-east) and to the north-east elevation, cement rendered rubble stone walls over projecting cement rendered plinth to other elevations. Square-headed window openings with flush dressed, bush-hammered surrounds and voussoirs, cut limestone sills, and with replacement timber casement windows. Three window openings to both the south-west and north-east elevations, blank elevation to rear (north-west). Square-headed doorway to the front face of gable-fronted projection having flush dressed rubble, bush-hammered surrounds and voussoirs, stone plinth blocks, and battened timber door. Cut stone date and name plaque over door incised ‘Meencarrigach National School 1856’. Set slightly back from road in the desolate rural landscape to the north-east end of Barnesmore Gap, and to the south-west of Ballybofey.
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