Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MAYO, BALLINROBE, CHARTER SCHOOL

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. MAYO, BALLINROBE, CHARTER SCHOOL
Date: 1738/39
Nature: Opened 1738 for 40 pupils or 1739 for 32 pupils. Described by Daniel Augustus Beaufort in 1787 as 'wretched' building 'in great decay' near the 'new Jail'.
Refs: Gentleman's & Citizen's Almanack (1750), ?; Angel, History of Ireland (1781), 79; Journal of the Rev. D.A. Beaufort, 1787