Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Old Schoolhouse
Aghagay, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- School
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Old Schoolhouse, High Street, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8JD
- Townland
- Aghagay
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.18456, -7.36234
- Date of survey
- 01 November 2000
- HB reference
- HB12/02/029
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1808 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
The building is now completely ruinous and much overgrown. Aligned roughly E-W and set within a V-junction with garden to front. Principal elevation faces S and is 5 window openings wide; end gables are blank – that to right is abutted by small addition. Rear has a central door opening with a window opening to either side.
Historical information
The 1835 Ordnance Survey Memoir notes that the school was erected n 1830 “at the expense of the incumbent who gives £4 per annum towards the support of the master”. It is cited as a school house on all three editions of the OS 6” map.
The first HMBB survey card of 1983 describes it as a “single storey building with hipped slated roof. Walls roughcast and whitened over rubble and brick. South front has five casement windows, small panes and label mouldings over lintels. Small end porches with shed roof and sheeted entrance doors. Front about 50ft.”
Primary sources:
1. Ordnance Survey Memoir, Galloon Parish, Co Fermanagh (1835).
2. OS 6” map, 1st edition (1834), Co Fermanagh sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/4/40/1).
3. OS 6” map, 2nd edition (1857), Co Fermanagh sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/4/40/2).
4. OS 6” map, 3rd edition (1907), Co Fermanagh sheet 40 (PRONI OS 6/4/40/3).
5. HMBB survey card, 1983.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
The school house is now completely ruinous and covered in heavy undergrowth.
Nearby in the register
- 39 High StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- Methodist ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- 44 High StreetHouseunder 1 mi
- Corner HouseHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.