placenamesDundalk
Dún Dealgan
At Marshes Upper, industrial architecture has acquired a new role in education while retaining a distinctive modernist setting.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Dún Dealgan · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dundalk · English · main form
Place & story
Ronnie Tallon’s factory
The former P. J. Carroll tobacco factory on Dublin Road was built in 1967–70 to Ronnie Tallon’s design. Its low steel-and-glass form separates administrative accommodation from manufacturing space. A walkway crosses a decorative pool at the entrance, beside Gerda Frömel’s steel sculpture Three Mobile Shapes. The architectural inventory gives the building a national rating, recognising its architectural, artistic, historical, social and technical interest. It records an ambitious industrial landmark on Dundalk’s southern outskirts. [2]
A different kind of production
Conversion brought the factory into Dundalk Institute of Technology’s campus. The institute’s account identifies its later role as the School of Informatics and Creative Arts, accommodating computing, mathematics, music and creative media. Recording studios, television facilities and editing rooms put new activities inside a building originally designed for cigarette manufacture. The change of use gives the surviving industrial structure a continuing place in the district’s working life, through education rather than its original manufacturing process. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Louth
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.00582, -6.39231
- Mapped area
- 26.18 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1705 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dundalk. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Former P. J. Carroll factory, NIAH13900744 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- P. J. Carroll’s Building: campus and facilities · Dundalk Institute of Technology
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.