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2025 Historic Structures Fund (HSF) - Recommended Grant Offers
- Published on: 27 March 2025
- Last updated on: 27 March 2025
List of recommended grant offers by the National Built Heritage Service (NBHS) in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, for all projects under the 2025 Historic Structures Fund.
| Name and Address of Project | Applicant | Description Of Works | Funding Allocated |
| Castle Saunderson, Castlesaunderson, Co. Cavan | Cavan County Council | Vegetation clearance and stabilisation works to stabilise this ruined structure and maintain it as a visitor attraction. | €170,000.00 |
| Former Railway Goods Shed, Railway Road, Co. Cavan | Binnacle Ltd. | Repairs to roof and rainwater goods to facilitate the future public use of this disused industrial building. | €70,763.88 |
| Billis Mills, Watermill by Billis Bridge, Drumollard, Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan | Katarina McNabb & Christopher Liu | Repairs to joinery and masonry structure of this unique ‘double mill’ as part of ongoing restoration of this rural industrial heritage complex. | €50,000.00 |
| St. Flannan’s Cathedral, Shantraud, Killaloe, Co. Clare | St. Flannan’s Cathedral Killaloe Select Vestry | Phase 4 of extensive conservation works to conserve this 13th century cathedral. Works in 2025 focus on the repair and re-slating of the North Transept. | €114,600.40 |
| St. Anne’s Church, Shandon, Cork City | Cork City Council | Works will restore this renowned four-faced clock tower, in what is a landmark on the Cork city skyline, to make the structure safe and repair its mechanism. | €250,000.00 |
| Alms Houses, Glanmire, Cork City | Augusta Construction Limited | Repairs to roof, windows and rainwater goods of these Gothic style houses to facilitate their reuse as residential homes. | €150,000.00 |
| St. Laurence Cheshire Home, Lotamore, Co. Cork | Cheshire Ireland | Repairs to rainwater goods, windows and render. Works will facilitate the use of this building as part of the wider accommodation complex operated by Enable Ireland. | €114,400.00 |
| Kinsale Museum, Kinsale, Co. Cork | Cork County Council | Repairs to internal plaster, external ironmongery, masonry walls and drainage for this former Courthouse building which is prominent within the town centre. | €72,403.74 |
| Sirius Arts Centre, The Old Yacht Club, Westbourne Place, Cobh, Co. Cork | Board of Sirius Arts Centre | Repairs to roofs including part of main pavilion roof, annex flat roofs, East wing roof, rainwater goods repair, and other detail items to be reinstated. Works will facilitate the use of previously inaccessible parts of this arts centre as a new community hub. | €130,000.00 |
| Former Warehouse, The Mall, Ramelton, Co. Donegal | Carmel Patterson | Repairs to roof and rainwater system to secure this structure and facilitate plans to bring it back into use as town centre residential properties. | €150,000.00 |
| Former Prior Endowed School, Lifford, Co. Donegal | Donegal County Council | Building envelope repairs, renewal and treatment of rot damaged timber, and associated structural repairs. Works will facilitate the planned use of this structure as a location for the Donegal County Archive. | €130,000.00 |
| 20 Dominick Street Lower, Dublin 1 | Youth Work Ireland | Repairs to rainwater goods, windows and render at largest surviving Georgian building on this city centre street, which now houses Youth Work Ireland and facilitates their youth programmes. | €200,000.00 |
| Christchurch Cathedral, Christchurch Place, Dublin 8 | Board of Christ Church Cathedral | Repointing and conservation of stonework & conservation of ironwork and stained glass to the south clerestory of the nave of this important cathedral. | €159,000.00 |
| Glandore House, Glandore Park, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin | The Links Creche Southside Ltd. | Repairs to roof, windows and rainwater goods. A former nursing home, works will help facilitate its development as a childcare facility for the local community. | €130,000.00 |
| Lehaunstown Park House, Laughanstown, Dublin 18 | Windyridge Lehaunstown House Ltd | Repairs to masonry, render and rainwater goods. Works will facilitate reuse of this property as a farm shop and garden centre. | €130,000.00 |
| St. Columba’s Church, Swords, Co. Dublin | The Select Vestry of St. Columba’s Church – Parish of Swords, Clonmethan and Kilsallaghan | Part of phased conservation works to this early nineteenth-century church within a medieval complex, including repairs to windows and lime mortar pointing. | €66,020.00 |
| Former Railway Station, Oughterard, Co. Galway | Owenriff Investments Ltd. | Repairs to roof, windows and rainwater goods of this nineteenth century former railway station. | €130,000.00 |
| Donaghmore Workhouse, Dunacleggan, Donaghmore, Co. Laois | Laois County Council | Repairs to roof, chimney and rainwater goods to prevent water ingress and damage to the infirmary block of this visitor attraction. | €200,000.00 |
| Carlingford Library, Newry Street, Carlingford, Co. Louth | Louth County Council | Repairs to seven arched steel windows to bring part of this local authority library back into use by the public. | €42,500.00 |
| St. Patrick’s Church, Newport, Co. Mayo | St Jarlath’s Diocesan Trust | Restoration and repair to the sandstone masonry facade of the main bell tower at this prominent church. | €130,000.00 |
| St. Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan Town | RC Dioceses and Parishes of Clogher, St Macartan’s Diocesan Trust | Continuation of the ambitious programme of conservation work at this cathedral, including stone conservation work to the spire, pinnacles, tower and south transept. | €200,000.00 |
| Hill Street House, Magherabane, Cloghan, Co. Offaly | Anthony Garahy | Repairs to roof, rainwater goods and lime render of this example of domestic early nineteenth-century urban architecture, which still features original roof timbers and thatch under its 1970s roof covering. | €85,887.75 |
| St. Finian’s School, Peamount Hospital, Peamount Road, Newcastle, Co. Dublin | Peamount Healthcare CLG | Repairs to roof and structural timber of disused timber building which formed part of a tuberculosis sanatorium. Works will facilitate plans to function as a training and community centre. | €130,000.00 |
| Railway Footbridge, Moate, Co. Westmeath | Westmeath County Council | Restoration of this currently inaccessible cast iron footbridge, including conservation of decorative ironworks and installation of new deck to reinstate public access. | €125,510.63 |
| Church Street & Lloyd’s Lane, Athlone, Co. Westmeath | David Keane - Murphy McGerr Architecture Ltd. | Conservation works to two adjoining town-centre properties in Athlone at Church Street and Lloyd’s Lane, including provision of ‘living-over-the-shop’ accommodation. | €68,780.94 |
| Rathaspeck Church, Churchtown, Rathaspeck, Co. Wexford | Church of Ireland RCB (Representative Church Body) | Repairs to roof, rainwater goods and windows at this disused rural church, with links to nearby Johnstown Castle. Works will facilitate plans to reuse the building for community and cultural use. | €100,620.00 |
| Ballast House, Crescent Quay, Co. Wexford | Wexford County Council | Repairs to roof, rainwater goods and render at this prominent town centre building. In local authority ownership, works will facilitate reuse plans to bring the property back into use as office space. | €130,000.00 |
| Russborough House, Blessington, Co. Wicklow | c/o Pauline Swords, Alfred Beit Foundation | Stone restoration to 61 distinctive decorative limestone urns on the roof parapet to the main house, the east wing principal elevations and the two colonnade at this heritage-focused tourism attraction. | €160,069.16 |