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Ballybay National School — Main Street

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Ballybay National School — Main Street
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Detached single-storey former boys national school, dated 1894, now in use as house, having projecting six-bay section to street flanked by short blank sections, with entrances to gable ends, and having single-storey return to south. Hipped natural slate roof to street elevation, pitched elsewhere; terracotta ridge tiles, ashlar copings to gables, and red brick and smooth rendered chimneystacks, and replacement rainwater goods. Catslide slate roof with squared stone chimneystack to south-east portion. Random rubble limestone walling with tooled ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins and dressed plinth, stone plaque to front elevation inscribed 'BALLYBAY NATIONAL BOYS SCHOOL 1894'. Roughcast walling to side and rear elevations. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds, replacement uPVC windows, and stone and concrete sills. Square-headed door openings with replacement uPVC doors. Set within own grounds to south-east of Ballybay town centre, and overlooking Lough Major to east.

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