School in Bredagh, County Leitrim

What is recorded here

The School in Bredagh has little pointed gablets over its upstairs windows, like a row of dunce caps. Harsh treatment for the only things in the classroom that let the light in without putting their hand up to ask.

Detached five-bay two-storey former school, built c.1840, on a T-plan with single-storey return. Now disused. Pitched tiled roofs with replacement brick chimneystacks and stone coping. First floor windows in east and west elevations are set into eaves and have stone gablets. Lean-to roof to return. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber casement windows with tooled stone surrounds. Tooled stone doorcase with timber battened door. Random stone wall encloses site. Wrought-iron gate to entrance with ashlar limestone piers and pyramidal caps.

The former primary school at Carrigallen is an attractive architectural composition. Decorative motifs such as gablets, which rise from the front and rear elevation give the structure added character. In addition simple tooled stone surrounds add to its aesthetic value. Although no longer in use, this former school is of social interest to the community.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30812001

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