Conservation Archives - Craftstudio Architecture

17th May 2024

Castleblayney Town Library

Castleblayney Town Library Hope Castle Gate Lodge is now the new home of Castleblayney Library. Located on Market Square, the building is one of two gate lodges, built in the 1870’s to frame the entrance to the Hope Castle Estate. The buildings form an important ensemble within the town and create a fine formal gateway..

30th November 2022

Station House

Station House The Station House is a co-working and enterprise hub in the former station master’s house of Monaghan Train Station. The renovation, extension and conservation of the building, a protected structure, was completed in March 2021. The completed project provides high-quality, affordable hot desks, flexible offices, meeting rooms, boardrooms and communal spaces. Its objective..

30th November 2022

Cathedral Restoration

Cathedral Restoration The Cathedral of Saints Patrick and Feilim is located in the heart of Cavan Town, standing on an elevated site at the end of Farnham Street. Built in a monumental neo-Classical style between 1939 and 1942, along with Galway Cathedral it is one of the last large-scale cathedrals to be built in Ireland...

16th May 2020

Old Monaghan Train Station

Old Monaghan Train Station This project involves the renovation of the Old Monaghan Train Station as office accommodation for our practice. The former railway station is a landmark building within Monaghan town. Designed by Sir John Benjamin MacNeill, an eminent Irish civil engineer of the 19th century, Monaghan railway station was a principal station building..

14th May 2020

CO:WORX Edgeworthstown

CO:WORX Edgeworthstown The former Ulster Bank is a landmark building in Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, located the North of Main Street, it is a protected structure built in the Queen Anne Revival style. It ceased operating as a bank in 2017, and was acquired by a local community group; CO:WORX, with a view to creating a..

20th February 2018

Old School, Killygarry

Old School, killygarry Our project to refurbish, extend and convert the Old Killygarry School to a family home as featured on RTE 1 show; The Great House Revival. This involves the renovation and extension of a 1894 built, two classroom national school in Co.Cavan. Abandoned in 1997, after the construction of a new school, it..

31st October 2017

Hope Castle Gate Lodge

Hope Castle Gate lodge Built in 1870, Hope Castle Gate lodge, a protected structure, is an extremely important building in the architectural heritage of Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan. Together with its mirror image opposite and a fine formal gateway between, it forms the entrance to the Hope Castle and the Lough Muckno Estate. Hope Castle has..