Saint Brigid's Well Brewery

Attached eight-bay two-storey building with attic, c.1830, on an L-shaped plan originally forming part of brewery complex with square-headed carriageway to ground floor, and two-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay to left. Extensively renovated, c.1980, with some openings remodelled. Now in alternative industrial use. Pitched roof on an L-shaped plan (gablets to some window openings to first floor in form of half-dormer attic windows) with replacement artificial slate, c.1980, clay ridge tiles, replacement square rooflights, c.1980, rendered coping to gables, and replacement plastic rainwater goods, c.1980, on timber eaves retaining fragments of original cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted random rubble stone walls to main block. Painted replacement cement rendered walls, c.1980, to projecting end bay with round-headed panel enclosing openings having channelling to remainder. Square-headed window openings (some remodelled, c.1980) with some shallow segmental-headed window openings to first floor having replacement concrete sills, c.1980. Replacement timber casement and fixed-pane timber windows, c.1980, to all window openings. Square-headed door openings with painted red brick ‘voussoirs’ to main block, and replacement timber panelled doors, c.1980. Square-headed carriageway to main block with timber boarded sliding door. Set back from road in shared grounds with tarmacadam forecourt.

An important component of the industrial heritage of Dungarvan, this building forms one of the earliest-surviving components of a brewery that operated on site from the early nineteenth century. Although extensively renovated in the late twentieth century, some of the original form and massing remains discernible.