Shanvaghera National School

Detached five-bay single-storey national school, built 1935; opened 1935, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting bays centred on single-bay full-height gabled projecting porch; seven-bay single-storey rear (east) elevation. Closed, 1968. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan extending into lean-to slate roofs centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stacks centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having lichen-covered chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings centred on paired square-headed window openings with square-headed window openings to rear (east) elevation, cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing remains of six-over-six timber sash windows centred on four-over-four timber sash windows with six-over-six timber sash windows to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Set in unkempt grounds with rear (east) elevation fronting on to road.

A dilapidated national school erected to a standardised design for the Department of Education (cf. 31307201) representing an integral component of the twentieth-century architectural heritage of County Mayo. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a national school making an increasingly forlorn visual statement in a rural street scene.