Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/21/092 B

Address :
Teacher's residence 6 Goragh Road Mullaghglass Co.Armagh BT35 6PZ

Townland:
LATT

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
House

Former Use
House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
252/15

IG Ref:
J0649 3000

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

One-and-a-half-storey former teacher’s residence located on Goragh Road, approximately 3 miles NNW of Newry, Co Down. The house is located to the immediate W of Mullaghglass Primary School (HB16/21/092A) and to the immediate E of the ruins of Mullaghglass church and burial ground (SMR: ARM026:001). Symmetrical façade to front (S) with central door opening containing replacement door beneath pitched roofed open porch, single window opening either side on ground floor level, and two window openings within pitched dormer at attic level. All windows are replacement uPVC double-glazing. Rendered chimney stack on each gable. Single window opening on ground floor of W gable; E gable not seen at time of survey. Rear elevation (N) is abutted by single-storey lean-to return on left side. Materials: Windows – UPVC with painted stone cills Walls – Painted rough-cast Roof – Natural slate roof RWGs – metal Setting Former teacher’s residence is set back off road with garden to front and path leading to front door. Rubblestone walling to S and W boundaries with rounded concrete coping. Small yard to rear. Located to the immediate W of Mullaghglass Primary School (HB16/21/092A) and to the immediate E of the ruins of Mullaghglass church and burial ground.

Architects

Historical Information

The current dwelling house was constructed in 1907-8 as a detached teacher’s residence for the adjacent Mullaglass School (sometimes spelled Mullaghglass in historic records). The dwelling house replaced an earlier teacher’s dwelling which was initially attached to the neighbouring schoolhouse and subsequently became incorporated into it. The neighbouring school was originally constructed c1827, as a Kildare Place Society School. Griffith’s Valuation of c1862 records the site as a ‘Scriptural school house’ valued at £4.10s. A house valued at £3.5s leased by John Francis, the school master, from Roger Hall of Narrow Water Castle is also listed. The 1861 OS map shows that the teacher’s dwelling house was, at that time, contiguous with the school, and this is further confirmed by the 1906 large-scale map and by a surviving sketch of the school and the former master’s house which appeared in the Newry Reporter in 1906. In 1873, the running of the school was taken over by the National School Board. In 1907, following the gifting of the of the schoolhouse, teacher’s residence and adjoining land to the Armagh Diocese Board of Education by the landlord, Captain Roger Hall, the schoolhouse was ‘thoroughly renovated’ and the building of a new teacher’s residence was ‘under consideration’ (Belfast Newsletter). A loan of £250 for the new teacher’s residence was sanctioned by the National School Board the same year. This work had been completed by 1908, when it was noted in valuation records and in National School Board records. At the same time, the former teacher’s residence was incorporated into the schoolhouse (which was at that time a single room) to give another classroom. The first resident of the new teacher’s house was Francis Atkinson who is recorded in the 1911 census as a 41-year-old Anglican teacher of local birth living with his English born wife and their young daughter. Atkinson resigned in 1912. The next inhabitant was Joseph G J Burrows, principal from 1912 to 1915 and a former winner of the Carlisle and Blake prize, a prestigious annual award to the most deserving principal teachers made by the Senior Inspectors of the National School Board. Burrows was followed by two teachers who were in post for almost 60 years in total; Joseph G Thornberry, principal of the school from 1916 until his retirement in 1945, and Joseph Wray who likewise remained until his retirement in 1975. Raymond Menoun followed as principal and appears to have been the last teacher to live in the teacher’s residence, leaving the school c1983. Information supplied by the school staff indicates that the house was subsequently occupied by school caretakers and has been vacant in recent years. A historic photograph, most likely dating from around 1960 and held by the school, shows the teacher’s residence. The house largely retains today the form and features seen in this photograph, although it is unclear whether the house might originally have featured additional decorative detailing. The windows and doors have been replaced in recent years. References: Primary Sources 1. Day, A and McWilliams, P (eds) (1990) Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland: Vol 1 Parishes of County Armagh 1835-8 Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University 2. PRONI OS/6/2/26/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1834-35) 3. PRONI OS/6/2/26/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1861) 4. PRONI OS/6/2/26/3 – Third Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1906) 5. PRONI OS/6/2/26/5 – Fifth Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1956) 6. PRONI VAL/1/B/244A & B Townland Valuation c1835 7. PRONI VAL/2/B/2/37C– Griffith’s Valuation (c1862) 8. PRONI VAL/12/B/15/22A-F – Annual Revisions (1865-1929) 9. PRONI VAL/12/A/3/84 – Valuer’s Notebook (1909) 10. PRONI VAL/3/C/2/5 – First General Revaluation 1936-1957 11. PRONI VAL/4/B/2/24 – Second General Revaluation c1956 12. PRONI VAL/14/B/309 – Third General Revaluation 1975-1987 13. PRONI VAL/14/C/276 – Third General Revaluation 1987-1993 14. PRONI ED/1/13/126 – Mullaglass School Grant Aid application (1873) 15. PRONI ED/1/13/135 – Mullaglass School Grant Aid application (1873) 16. PRONI ED/6/3/2/2 – Folio 53, Roll No 10948/1019 (1905-1954) 17. PRONI ED/14/B/141 Mullaghglass National School (1922-1924) 18. PRONI SCH/792/1 – Registers Mullaglass School (1901-1958) 19. PRONI SCH/792/5 – Inspector’s Observation Book (1875-1952) 20. Newry Reporter, 21st August 1906 21. Belfast Newsletter, 8th April 1907 22. Newry Reporter, 27th July 1912 23. Newry Reporter, 15th July 1915 24. Newry Reporter, 3rd October 1918 25. Banbridge Chronicle, 19th January 1924 26. Lurgan Mail, 23rd April 1932 27. Belfast Telegraph, 21st August 1945 28. Newry Reporter, 2nd October 1945 29. Newry Reporter, 3rd July 1975 30. Newry Reporter, 2nd June 1983 31. Census of Ireland 1911 32. Information supplied by Mullaghglass Primary School

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

One-and-a-half-storey former teacher’s residence located on Goragh Road, approximately 3 miles NNW of Newry, Co Down, located to the immediate W of Mullaghglass Primary School (HB16/21/092A). Due to the loss of historic fabric and detailing such as the original windows, there is insufficient special interest to meet the criteria for listing.

General Comments

Date of Survey

30 August 2023