1876 – Former Bank, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Architect: Sandham Symes A fine and vigourous building by Sandham Symes who also designed a fine branch for the same bank in Kilkenny. Designed in an Italianate style, the five bay, two storey building...
View Article1878 – St. Mary Magdalen’s Dominican Church, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Architect: G.C. Ashlin Designed in a French Gothic style and built in 1878, the Dominican church is finished in rusticated limestone. The side entrance to Dominick Street has a small tower over the...
View Article1879 – St. Mary’s Sunday School, Drogheda, Co. Louth
A small three bay building of rusticated limestone and brick trimmings opposite St Mary’s Church of Ireland. A plaque on the building announces that it was “Erected by Thomas Plunket Cairnes 1879″. It...
View Article1880 – St Peter’s Church, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Architect: O’Neill & Byrne The centerpiece of Drogheda north of the Boyne is the tall and graceful French Gothic church by O’Neill & Byrne. Set into the hillside, it is approached up a flight...
View Article1892 – St. Mary’s Church, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Architect: P.J. Dodd Designed by a local architect, P.J. Dodd, St Mary’s is another large Catholic church in a gothic style. The exterior is dominated by the slender tower and spire. At ground level...
View Article1874 – Cord Burial Ground Church, Drogheda, Co. Louth
A small gothic mortuary chapel with a particularly high pitched roof. The building is finished in rusticated limestone. Dedicated 21 June 1874. In the corner of the graveyard is the east gable of a...
View Article1890s – Clarke’s Bar, Drogheda, Co. Louth
A fine late 19th century building and interior. The exterior is rendered with decorative window surrounds and a fine shop front. The interior with its low counters, snugs, and drawer units from a time...
View Article1905 – Former Library, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Built as a Carnegie Library in 1905, this simple mid terrace building features Jacobean gothic detailing and Art Nouveau lettering. Related Posts: 1905 – Carnegie Library, Anglesea Street, Cork 1905 –...
View Article1936 – College of Further Education, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Architect: W.H. Byrne Built as Drogheda Technical School and now the College of Further Education, this is a fine example of the early Modern Movement in Ireland. The entrance to the school is...
View Article1951 – Post Office, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Architect: Office of Public Works Designed by Seymour Rice and Ronald Tallon (later of Scott Tallon Walker) while staff of the Office of Public Works. The main public office has an airy bright interior...
View Article1950s – Teelan’s Shop, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Fabulous shop exterior from the 1950s with intact lettering and wild octagonal windows. The interior is a similar time warp. Long may it survive. Related Posts: 1896 – Firstactive Bank, Drogheda, Co....
View Article2006 – Boyne Bridge, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Architect: Roughan O’Donovan Imposing structure over the Boyne on the Drogheda bypass, this cable-stayed bridge is a local landmark for its striking engineering. Related Posts: 1855 – Railway Viaduct,...
View Article1785 – Rokeby Hall, Dunleer, Co. Louth
Architect: Thomas Cooley Designs for Rokeby Hall by Thomas Cooley but supervised by Francis Johnston after his death, for Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh. Robinson has previously hired both...
View Article1873 – School, Euston Street, Greenore, Co. Louth
Built in 1873 to provide educational facilities for the children of the workers at the large port and railway facilities. The village of Greenore, at the mouth of Carlingford Lough, grew up in the...
View Article1875 – Railway Hotel, Greenore, Co. Louth
Architect: James Barton Impressive railway hotel built by the Dundalk, Newry & Greenore Railway in the 1870s as Greenore was becoming an important transit point with the completion of the railway...
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1883 – Design for Post Office, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Architect: W.I. Chambers A design for Nos. 75-76 Clanbrassil Street in Dundalk. Published in The Irish Builder, December 15 1883.(Read more...)The post 1883 – Design for Post Office, Dundalk, Co. Louth...
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1570 – The Wooden House, Drogheda, Co. Louth
The Wooden House, Drogheda; erected 1570 by Nicholas Bathe at the junction of Laurence and Shop streets; taken down 1824. From The Dublin Penny Journal, September 15 1832: “It occupied the angle formed...
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1886 – The Dundalk Club, Roden Place, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Architect: John L. O’Hanlon Still standing today, with remarkably intact exterior with some fine decorative ironwork. “The new premises for the Dundalk Club (Limited) have been erected in Roden-place,...
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1892 – Church of the Immaculate Conception, Louth, Co. Louth
Architect: W.H. Byrne Constructed between 1890 to 1892, extensively fire damaged in 2005, started during renovation work, leaving only the exterior walls and spire standing. Re-opened with modern...
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1922 – Oliver Plunkett Church, Blackrock, Co. Louth
Architect: Ralph H. Byrne One of the better designed churches of the early 20th century that largely managed to escape the granite-clad barn template of later years is the Church of St. Oliver Plunkett...
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