Gort na gCloch Social Housing Development, St. Josephs, Clifden, Co. Galway

Gort na gCloch is a development of 26 units, including 6 no. one-bedroom houses, 7 no. two-bedroom houses, 5 no. three-bedroom houses, 4 no. one-bedroom apartments & 4 no. 2 bedroom apartments for Galway County Council.

St. Josephs in Clifden, Co. Galway was a former Mercy Convent and later an Industrial School & Laundry dating back to 1862.  

A combined conservation and new build housing project - The site contained two vacant buildings, a former school building known as St. Joseph’s Convent School (Block A), listed as a Protected Structure and a former laundry building (Block B). 



The existing buildings were in a very poor state of repair and were in need of refurbishment to ensure their future long-term survival.