St. Flannan's College

St Flannan's College, Ennis, Co Clare

Built 1875-1885

Courtesy of NIAH

St Flannan's College, Ennis, Co Clare
Courtesy of NIAH

St Flannan's College, Ennis, Co Clare

Built 1875-1885

Courtesy of NIAH

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Reg. 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.