Restoration

Cloneyhurke House extension with limecrete floors and lime plastering

Extension to Historic Country House

Cloneyhurke House is a two storey over basement country house built in the late 1700s. Mid West Lime were engaged to construct a  living dining area to the rear of the house and carry out re-roofing, insulation, new sliding sash windows, stone front entrance rebuild and addition and plaster repairs externally and internally. Country House …

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The Countess Dunraven Fountain, Adare, Limerick after stone restoration and new lime pointing front view

Restoration of Fountain in Limerick

Refurbishment / Restoration of Fountain: The Countess Dunraven Fountain in Adare Co. Limerick   The Countess Dunraven Fountain restoration proved to be a most challenging project. The location of the site within the centre of Adare village brought with it certain restrictions which had to be overcome. The works were completed by our team without …

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Strokestown Park House - stone wall repair

Mausoleum Stabilisation works at 17th Century Church, Strokestown Park House, Strokestown, Roscommon

Mid West Lime were PSCS on this challenging project of Mausoleum Stabilisation works. A section of the external wall of a brick and stone-built mausoleum had suffered extensive movement as a result of major vegetation and a sycamore tree growing on the vaulted roof structure. The tree had been cut and the roots injected some …

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Reroofing and Patch Repair of Masonry

Reroofing and Patch Repair of Masonry & Pointing to a Late 19th Century Coach House

This project was run as part of REPS under supervision of  the Heritage Council . The building secured funding to remove the existing roof and replace damaged rafters and lathes and to relay the salvageable slates along with some replacement salvaged slate.  Parging was then carried out to the underside of the slates using a …

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Raking out and re pointing of St Bridgets Church, Templebraden, Pallasgreen, Co Limerick

Raking out and re pointing of St Bridgets Church, Templebraden, Pallasgreen, Co Limerick

Mid West Lime were the nominated subcontractors for this project, the raking out and re pointing of St Bridgets Church, Templebraden, Pallasgreen, Co Limerick This project involves the raking out of inappropriate sand and cement pointing that is not original to the structure and re pointing in a mortar that matches the original mortar. There …

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