Carlow primary school lodges planning permission for 'much needed' extension and renovations
Scoil Phadraig Naofa, Rathvilly are seeking planning permission for a new classroom and some other renovations to the school
Carlow County Council has received a planning application for an extension and renovation works at Scoil Phadraig Naofa, Rathvilly.
The primary school's Board of Management submitted the application just this week in which it states they have been granted funding by the Department of Education "to construct this much needed additional accommodation extension."
The application details plans to demolish an existing storage shelter, provide a new single storey extension which will consist of one classroom and extend an existing one, as well as other renovation works.
The plans read: "the demolition of an existing standalone storage shelter (floor area to be demolished = 34.5sqm) and provision of a single storey extension to side / front of existing School Building (existing floor area = 1,054sqm), consisting of 1 no. Classroom, extension to Existing Classroom, and minor internal alterations, (proposed additional floor area = 117sqm), amendments to existing staff car parking area layout and the provision of 1 no. new accessible parking space, together with all associated site works."
Carlow County Council are due to make their decision on 7 September 2025.