Project:        Carlingford Castle – Improvement works

Client:          OPW

Designer:    OPW

Location:    Carlingford Co. Louth

Brief Overview:

King John’s Castle, also known as Carlingford Castle, is an enclosure castle and National Monument located in Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland. The scope of the scheme included a number of modern interventions to the building fabric as well as number of repairs to the castle

Key Elements:

• PSCS role for the duration of the works.
• Hard landscaping – >500m2 of paving – concrete & stone including Wicklow granite, pigmented polished concrete (to bespoke colours) and rounded limestone cobble.
• Provision of new electrical installations for internal and external lighting work. Electrical works included the lighting up of the new footways, rails, galleries, flood lighting, access bridges and viewing areas.
• Cabling and duct work for all new installations including upgrades to existing storm water and interface with existing utilities on the site-water, storm water, wastewater, ESB .
• Construction of new polished concrete surfaces inside and outside the castle.
• Extensive bespoke structural steel access facilities were constructed, to include purpose made simply supported gallery structure, access stairs, rails, access bridges and access portal.
• Installation of metal ramps, stairs, gallery, handrails and other components.
• Installation of new information signs
• Rebuilding of masonry wall using lime mortars. Works included lime mortar masonry repair of existing high heritage importance walls.
• Access improvement works were performed with concrete footways installed all around and throughout the castle as well as associated soft landscaping works.