Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/01/083

Address :
Site of former Kearney School 5 Newcastle Road Kearney Portaferry Co Down BT22 1QQ

Townland:
Kearney

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
School

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Demolished

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OS Map No:
207/6

IG Ref:
J6433 5155

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Site, at the junction of Newcastle Road and Kearney Road (c.3 miles SE of Portaferry) a of former, single storey, mid 19th century school house, demolished 1974 with a single storey dwelling house built on site. When surveyed in November 1970 it was described as 'Single / sty bldg. Roof slated. Chimneys rendered. Gabled ends. Projecting verges and eaves. Walls random split rubble. 4 - casement windows. 2 / light. Horizon. astrags. Ward [wood?] shutters. Door at R/H, sheeted & glazed panel blocked. Condition poor. Unoccupied. Front about 32 ft'

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

The building formerly on this site was a National School built in 1853. The school closed in 1930 and was demolished in 1974. To the north of this site, roughly half a mile along the Newcastle Road is a converted school now used as dwelling, which was the original Kearney School established in 1823 with grants from the Kildare Place Society. This particular school was replaced by the National School in 1853. References- Primary sources 1 'Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II', ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), p.15 [The memoirs provide a description of the original Kearney school.] 2 PRONI OS/6/3/32/2 Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st rev., 1860, Down sheet 32 3 PRONI Second valuation, Parish of Ballytrustan, 1861 (in print) 4 PRONI OS/6/3/32/3 Ordnance Survey maps, 2nd ed., 1899-1900, Down sheet 32 Secondary sources 1 Amy Anderson, "Some aspects of Education in the Portaferry area Part II", in 'Journal of the Upper Ards Historical Society No.9' (1985), pp.2-5

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Site of former National School of 1853, demolished in 1974 with a modern single storey house now in its place.

General Comments

Date of Survey

12 August 1997