Saint Malachy's Convent

Attached multiple-bay single-storey school, built c. 1845. Pitched slate roof, skylights, uPVC rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walling, cut limestone gable ridges. Segmental-headed window openings, painted reveals, sills, containing fixed pane timber windows. Square-headed door opening in cut stone surround, under glazed ceramic plaque, flanked by cut stone chamfered shafts, containing timber sheeted door. Located in courtyard to north of Convent of Mercy complex, accessed from school via gate at wall attached to convent burial grounds. Accessed from Mill street also.

Reputedly the site of the original school of the Convent of Mercy when it first opened in Dundalk in the years immediately after the famine. The school greatly expanded later and the building was reworked c. 1910, with a very handsome stone doorcase containing a fine example of a ceramic plaque in the Art Nouveau style, which adds to its artistic significance. The building continues to play an important role in the educational life of the community.