What is recorded here
Detached three-bay single-storey former national school, dated 1931, on T-plan, with gabled projection to front elevation. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves and smooth rendered eaves course, yellow brick on stretcher bond chimneystacks with chamfered ashlar coping and terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with sandstone date plaque with chamfered edges to front. Square-headed window openings with ashlar sandstone sills having four-over-four horned timber sash windows to front elevation, six-over-nine to side elevations and six-over-six to rear elevation. Square-headed door openings with battened timber doors, and ashlar sandstone thresholds to north and south sides of gabled projection. Random rubble wall with rendered coping dividing former yard to rear and intercepting single-storey toilet block comprising shallow monopitched corrugated-metal roofs and random rubble walls. Set within own grounds enclosed by random-rubble walls with rendered coping; smooth rendered piers with chamfered ashlar coping to south-west of boundary wall.
Although no longer in use, this simple rural school has retained its architectural integrity and detailing including timber windows and slate roof. It appears to have had separate classrooms for girls and boys. The yard to the rear is also divided. It represents an important part of the social heritage of the area, having served the rural education system from the first half of the twentieth century.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40902120
This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.
Places near here
Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Attila Terbócs, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- DAYVEHUSE, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Corinna Schleiffer, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Patrick Mackie, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- MoorsoP, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
outbuilding552 yd
Old ChurchChurch · 1416 yd
CrockaulinMountain / peak · 2.8 mi
Inishowen Maritime Museum and PlanetariumMuseum · 3.6 mi
White StrandBeach / strand · 5.5 miMore historic places in County Donegal · All of County Donegal

What do you know about this place?