Schoolhouse at Annaghmore Sligo, Collooney

Schoolhouse at Annaghmore is an attractive rural building located by the Owenmore River and surrounded by mature woodland. This unique holiday home sleeps 4 guests comfortable and is filled with character and style.

The welcoming hall leads through to a light filled sitting room where an open fire which adds a welcoming glow to the double height living room and dining room area. The pretty country kitchen in duck egg blue is well equipped and has all you need for a comfortable self-catering holiday. Behind the sitting room you will find a cosy seating area with wood burning stove, a perfect place to get lost in a book. Guests can also avail of a separate shower room downstairs.

Both bedrooms are furnished beautifully. The two pretty double bedrooms are located on the first floor, up a gorgeous handmade wood staircase. There is an additional bathroom on the first floor which has a bath tub.

This holiday home has oil fired central heating throughout. To the rear of the holiday home there is a patio area with garden furniture perfect for alfresco dining. Savour the pretty garden views, whilst you listen to the gentle sound of the flowing river located nearby. Outside, the homes guests can benefit from safe, off-street parking.

Strandhill Beach is an area of great natural beauty located 21 minutes’ north of the unique self-catering property. Located 5 miles west of Sligo town with panoramic views of Knocknarea and Benbulben and is a popular surfing spot, plus it has a number of amazing walks.

Sligo town is known for its literary heritage and rugged countryside. Ruined medieval Sligo Abbey has carved tombs and a 15th-century altar. Sligo County Museum displays memorabilia of local poet W.B. Yeats, paintings and Stone Age artefacts. The Model is a contemporary arts centre featuring works by 20th-century Irish artists.

Property History
Built in the 1860s, The Schoolhouse, Annaghmore is an attractive rural building picturesquely located by the Owenmore River and surrounded by mature woodland. The building retains many original decorative features including ornamental wooden bargeboards and lattice windows surmounted by wooden hood mouldings. The most striking feature is the projecting oriel window on the upper east gable.The L-shaped one and a half storey building originally comprised of a two-storey accommodation area (the schoolmaster's residence) and a double height schoolroom. Some 19th Century schoolhouse furnishings still survive including the schoolhouse fireplace, coat hooks and chalkboards.

This charming rural schoolhouse on the Annaghmore Estate which has been owned by the O'Hara family for several centuries, features distinctively Tudor Revival decorative elements.

Built in the 1860s as a school for the estate tenants' children, it is an attractive rural building picturesquely located on the banks of the Owenmore river and surrounded by mature woodland.

There is local folklore surrounding the last tenant of the schoolhouse. Hughie Savage was a bachelor who farmed on the other side of the Owenmore river and kept cattle in the mountains.

He lived at Annaghmore without electricity or running water and did not have a bank account. He kept all his money in a tin box which legend says is still buried somewhere at Annaghmore since it has never been found!