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New Italianate 6-bay, 2-storey school. Tenders invited, Jul 1858. FS laid summer, 1858. Being roofed by end of following Oct. Opened, Oct 1859. Ground floor storey rendered in Portland cement; upper part of Belfast red & white bricks. Builder: Farr, Armagh. Stonecutters: McCullough & Morrow. Painter: Maxwell.
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Armagh Guardian, 2 Jul 1858,14,21 Oct 1859; B 16, 30 Oct 1858, 731; 17, 19 Nov 1859, 766; Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Insitute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), list of works; R. McKinstry, R. Oram, R. Weatherup, P. Wilson, The Buildings of Armagh (UAHS, 1992), 92; ; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 120.
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