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Saint Joseph's National School

Handball alley
Saint Joseph's National School
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Saint Joseph's National School in Ramolin has a back-to-back handball alley: two sides hammering away at a wall, neither obliged to look at the other. Someone managed to build a family disagreement.

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Freestanding "back-to-back" handball alley, built 1935[?]; extant 1945, with part creeper- or ivy-covered cement rendered boundary walls to perimeter. Now disused. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Saint Joseph's National School.
A ""back-to-back"" handball alley representing an interesting component of the twentieth-century architectural heritage of Shrule.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31312210

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Bmcgeene, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Nigel Thompson, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; The original uploader was Dppowell at English Wikipedia ., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5; Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; C Michael Hogan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Steve & Jemma Copley on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Rick Crowley, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Maigheach-gheal, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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