Vicarstown National School, County Laois

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Detached nine-bay single-storey national school, built 1867-8; dated 1868, on a symmetrical plan with pair of single-bay single-storey lean-to porches framing single-bay single-storey gabled breakfront with half-attic. Set in relanscaped grounds with cast-iron colonnette piers to perimeter having curvilinear capping supporting looped flat iron gates. NOTE: The national school was designed by Charles Geoghegan (1820-1908) of Great Brunswick Street [Pearse Street], Dublin, and a panel is inscribed: "VICARSTOWN/MALE AND FEMALE/NATIONAL SCHOOLS/THESE SCHOOLS/WITH TEACHERS RESIDENCES ATTACHED/WERE ERECTED BY Mrs GRATTAN BELLEW/FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN/OF HER TENANTS/1868".

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12801404

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