St. Flannan's College
St Flannan's College, Ennis, Co Clare
Built 1875-1885
Courtesy of NIAHSt Flannan's College, Ennis, Co Clare
Built 1875-1885
Courtesy of NIAHReg. No: 20008139
Date: 1875-1885
Previous Name: N/A
Townland: Clonroad More
County: Co. Clare
Special Interest: Architectural/ Artistic/ Social
Rating: Regional
Original Use: School
In Use As: School
Detached U-plan seventeen-bay three-storey Gothic Revival school, built c. 1880, with five-stage breakfront entrance tower and gabled projecting end bays. Pitched slate roofs with horizontal bands of green slate, red brick chimneystacks, pyramidal tower roof, stone eaves brackets, cut stone copings and finials. Coursed cut limestone walls with string courses. Projecting cut-limestone porch with crenellations, corner buttresses, and pointed arch door opening having hood mouldings, inset plaque above and timber panelled double leaf doors. Cut-stone block-and-start surrounds to pointed arch window openings. Hood mouldings over some breakfront windows. Timber sliding sash windows. Retaining interior features. Fine entrance gates to site. Various extension including four-bay two-storey block, 1952, staff dining room, 1962, fifteen-bay two-storey block, 1968, and six-bay two-storey block, 1980.
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St Flannan's College, Ennis, Co Clare
Built 1875-1885
Courtesy of NIAHSt Flannan's College, Ennis, Co Clare - Courtesy of NIAH
St Flannan's College, Ennis, Co Clare
Built 1875-1885
Courtesy of NIAHSt Flannan's College, Ennis, Co Clare - Courtesy of NIAH
St Flannan's College door arch and window detail, Ennis, Co Clare
Built 1875-1885
Courtesy of NIAHSt Flannan's College door arch and window detail, Ennis, Co Clare - Courtesy of NIAH
St Flannan's College door arch and window detail, Ennis, Co Clare
Built 1875-1885
Courtesy of NIAHSt Flannan's College door arch and window detail, Ennis, Co Clare - Courtesy of NIAH
St Flannan's College stone detail, Ennis, Co Clare
Built 1875-1885
Courtesy of NIAHSt Flannan's College stone detail, Ennis, Co Clare - Courtesy of NIAH
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