CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, MOUNTJOY ROAD, MINOR MODEL SCHOOL
Date:
1858-59
Nature:
New model school to new 'Byzantine' design. Single storey except for left wing. Sig-sag ornaments, unequal quoins, camfered arrises, tracery headed windows, &c. Front and flanks of squared stone with half-hammered face. Second set of designs prepared by Board of Public Works, the first having proved too expensive.
Refs:
23rd Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland (1856), xvii; 25th Report (1858), xix; 27th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1858), 18; B 16, 12 Jun 1858, 416
CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, MOUNTJOY ROAD, MINOR MODEL SCHOOL
Date:
1875ca;1880ca
Nature:
Works at school, 1875c; enlargement of head master's house, 1880c. Various alts. and repairs. For S.H. Ferguson, head master.
Refs:
Printed testimonial of Henry McBride, 26 Sep 1895, to support application for position of Clerk of Works, Omagh Asylum (photocopy in IAA donated by Rose Mary Logue, Dundrum, Dublin 14).