Louth County Museum

Attached eight-bay five-storey stone former distillery, dated 1799, now a museum. Extension to west dated 1877, return to south-east. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, painted timber bargeboards, moulded cast-iron gutters on painted timber fascia, circular cast-iron downpipes. Squared coursed rubble walling with dressed limestone quoins; red brick walling to wall tops south-east block. Segmental-headed window openings, block-and-start red brick jambs with gauged brick lintels, bull-nosed soffits and reveals, granite sills, timber casement windows, window openings to ground floor blocked with brick; round-headed window opening to east elevation. Round-headed door opening to 1877 extension, stepped red brick surround, block-and-start jambs, timber-and-glazed doors with sidelights and overlights, original cast-iron hinges visible; segmental-headed door opening west of main door, block-and-start brick jambs, timber-and-glazed door; segmental-headed door opening to east elevation set above ground level, block-and-start brick jambs, granite threshold, metal doors; segmental-headed door opening to north and to south extension, timber doors. Street fronted.

Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, painted timber bargeboards, moulded cast-iron gutters on painted timber fascia, circular cast-iron downpipes.

Respectfully restored, this substantial building is an important feature within the historical landscape of Dundalk. Originally part of a distillery, it is a memento of Dundalk's industrial past. Later used as a tobacco warehouse from the 1930s onward, it was donated by Carrolls Tobacco Company to Dundalk Urban District Council in 1989. Refurbished as a museum, the building remains an important part of the social and historic fabric of the town and county.

Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, painted timber bargeboards, moulded cast-iron gutters on painted timber fascia, circular cast-iron downpipes.