School / A.D. 1843". The building it marks has had more than one life, and the plaque is perhaps the most straightforward thing about it. What began as a plain rectangular schoolhouse has accumulated additions over the decades until its plan became an L-shape, with a lean-to against one gable, a two-storey rear wing, and a further single-bay addition grafted onto that. The front elevation presents four bays of blocked rectangular window openings, a detail that gives the facade a slightly sealed, inward quality.

The original structure was already plotted on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, which suggests construction was underway or imminent at the time of the survey. The school that opened in 1843 was built of random-rubble sandstone, a technique using unshaped stones laid without regular coursing, then rendered over on the exterior. The corners are finished with alternating brick and stone quoins, a small decorative flourish that was common in institutional buildings of the period. Coursed ashlar chimneys, built from precisely cut and dressed stone, sit atop the gables, giving the roofline a tidier appearance than the walls below might suggest. National schools of this era were a product of the Board of National Education, established in Ireland in 1831, which oversaw the construction of hundreds of such buildings across the country in the decades that followed.

By the time the building was recorded, it had been vacant for some period. Since then, it has been refurbished and converted into a residence, which means the institutional character of the original is now layered beneath domestic use. The playground to the rear and the outside toilet block remain as traces of what it once was.