77 Bolea Road

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Two room cottage stepping down from Bolea Road. Upper room slate roof with chimney on each gable. Lower room former thatched roof now corrugated metal, stepping down to third room. There is also a barn covered by corrugated metal. Curly River a room and a half width further down hill. Main facade faces south west onto yard with corrugated metal outbuildings. Bolea Road against north west gable. Two strap iron gates between road and yard.

One metal window to upper room on south west elevation. One four pane timber sash to lower room and sheeted timber entrance door. One door to barn. Small lean-to abutting barn on south east gable no upper windows.

North east elevation facing Bolea has two metal windows to upper room, then a sheeted door to the lower room and a four pane sash window. No windows to barns. A sheugh runs parallel to the wall one metre from the building.

Historical information

Upper room was used as school house. Door to yard may be more recent. Building mentioned in Ordnance Survey Memoirs as:

‘School in Mullane… built in the year 1775 at an expense of 10 pounds collected among the inhabitants some of whom gave personal labour towards the erection instead of money. The house is built of stone and thatched and in good repair. 27 and a half feet long by 13 feet broad, the side walls five feet high. In the year 1818 the Kildare Street Society gave 10 pounds towards some repairs and since that period for enlarging and furnishing the schoolhouse and other school requisites, the additional sums of 23 pounds 1s 7d. The society gave in addition … sums to the master (list of years 1825 - 1832). This school is now connected with no society and the master derives his income altogether from the parents of the children (eight pounds per annum). He has now on his books two children of the established church, 27 Presbyterians and three Roman Catholics, 24 males and eight girls. This school is situated on the southern boundary of Killbready and is popularly called Killbready school.'

References:

O.S. Memoirs Vol 11
Owner (1997)

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

D. Plan Form
H+. Alterations enhancing the building
I. Quality and survival of Interior

Criteria for listing: historic interest

X. Local Interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance

Evaluation

A rustic style late 18th century small school building of one classroom, formerly thatched, later supported by Kildare Street Society, now a dwelling house. A quaint vernacular style building nestling with its gable into the side of the road.