School in Lisglennon, County Mayo

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Detached three-bay single-storey school house with half-dormer attic, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan with outline of single-bay single-storey gabled advanced or projecting porch. In use, 1901. Disused, 1911. Pitched slate roof on timber construction with clay ridge tiles, ivy-covered rendered off-central chimney stack with capping not visible, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Part ivy-covered fine roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings (east) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing remains of six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening (west) with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings to gables to side elevations with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one one-over-one timber sash windows. Road fronted with overgrown verge to front.

A school house forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside the ruined Ballysakeery Church (Ballysakeery) (see 31302204) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31302205

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