Scoil Náisiúnta Aonghusa, school in County Louth

What is recorded here

Scoil Náisiúnta Aonghusa in Moneymore stands between two much later, flat-roofed additions, keeping its stone cross high above the pair. It has the air of a nun wedged between two lads at the back of a bus: ‘I’ll sit here. You’ve had your chance.’

Attached seven-bay two-storey school, built c. 1870. Irregular plan, gable-fronted projection to centre, north elevation, two-storey flat-roofed red brick and rendered school building, c. 1970, attached to east and west. Pitched artificial slate roof, stone verge coping to projecting bay, stone cross finial, cast-iron gutters on corbelled eaves, cast-iron hoppers, circular cast-iron downpipes. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling, plinth course, smooth rendered sill courses to ground and first floor windows, banded frieze with terracotta panels under first floor windows, channelled quoins. Square-headed window openings, moulded surrounds, keystone to ground floor openings, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows, tripartite window to ground floor of projecting bay, Venetian window to first floor, hood moulding, limestone sills, painted timber two-over two-sliding sash windows. Entrance door within 1970's school buildings to west and east. Located in school complex, bounded by wrought-iron railings on rendered plinths, entrance gates to west at square-profiled limestone piers with triangular caps, wrought-iron gates to east.

This is a handsome example of a school building dating from the end of the nineteenth century. The restrained façade has been attractively articulated with a projecting section containing fine window treatments. The rendered detailing contributes greatly to the architectural design and significance of the school.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 13619121

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