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Saint Columbanus Hall

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Saint Columbanus Hall
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Saint Columbanus Hall in Howth keeps its entrance tucked back while the two classroom ends stick forward. Even the school building has that familiar Irish condition: desperate to know who's coming, reluctant to answer the door.

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Detached three-bay single-storey school, built 1852, with projecting gable-fronted end bays and recessed entrance bay to north gable.ROOF: Double pitched roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks with terracotta pots. WALLS: Smooth rendered with recessed panel above windows in end bays. OPENINGS:Timber casements and sashes, concrete sills; tongue and groove doors

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11359021

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