Kilcullen company aids award-winning Dublin restoration

Photos by Murphy Surveys.

A Kilcullen company provided essential input into an award-winning project to restore an historic Dublin Georgian tenement building, writes Brian Byrne.

Murphy Surveys documented the site at 14 Henrietta Street for the restoration work, which earlier this year won the Best Conservation/Restoration Project and Best Overall Project at RIAI Irish Architecture Awards.

The building, part of a street built around 1720, was highly dilapidated and walls and floors had been affected by fire. Murphy Surveys captured scans and created 360-deg imagery and highly detailed drawings to 1:10 and 1:20 scale. These included internal elevations and ortho-rectified imagery to keep a historical record of the site.

The project also included the use of Ground Penetrating Radar to capture the location and position of subsurface utilities in the adjacent streets and footpaths.

Tours of the site have just restarted after the completion of the project, commissioned by the operators of the site Dublin City Council. The restoration took 10 years.

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