The Royal School approved for windows upgrade

Cavan County Council has granted planning permission to the Cavan Protestant Board of Education for an upgrading of the The Royal School, Lurganboy, Cavan.

The permission allows for the replacement of windows to the front and rear elevations of the former kitchen block, together with all associated site works. The works are in the curtilage of a Protected Structure as defined under the Cavan Town and Environs Development Plan 2017 – 2020.

The local authority planners granted the permission subject to three conditions.

The Cavan Royal School was founded in 1608 as one of five Royal Schools established by King James I. The present purpose-built neo-Classical school was designed by Francis Johnston and built at a cost of £7,553 under the supervision of John Bowden sometime between 1815 and 1820.

The design of austere simplicity is well proportioned and balanced in all its three principal elevations.

The eastern elevation is articulated by pedimented end bays with tripartite windows of precise architectural detail, one of which survives. The school remains a very important example from the work of one of Ireland's leading neo-classical architects. As an institution the school is of great historical significance and the building gives an insight into the education of the Protestant ruling class from the beginning of the nineteenth century.