Loughnane’s Joinery in Monivea, Co. Galway is a bespoke joinery and fire door specialist catering for the high end of the market. While the company has been trading for the last 41 years, the Loughnane family has been synonymous with carpentry and joinery for much longer.
The first carpenters in our family can be traced back to 1796,” James Loughnane proudly explains.
“Loughnane’s Joinery was set up by my parents John and Rose in 1976, but we go back a lot further. As seventh generation carpenters, we’d like to think we know a thing or two about the trade. Quality and craftsmanship have been our hallmarks through the generations.”
James runs the family business along with his brother John Jnr, who is a chartered accountant by profession. They employ 30 highly skilled staff at their 45,000 square feet manufacturing facility in Monivea, which is a short drive from Athenry, the M6 Motorway and Galway city, and a further 10 fitters on a sub-contract basis. Loughnane’s Joinery is equipped with state-of-the-art machinery to give its customers the best quality and was one of the first companies in Ireland to invest in CNC technology. The company guarantees complete customer satisfaction by keeping up to date with new trends, ideas and innovative designs. It makes to order, so your doors, kitchen products, stairs and furniture are always unique.
Having traditionally supplied the Irish kitchen industry with an unparalleled choice of woods and kitchen door styles, Loughnane’s Joinery is now better known as a leading supplier of fire doors to the commercial, education, healthcare, residential, retail and hotel sectors. An ability to work closely with project managers, architects, engineers and developers, and adapt to their requirements, has been central to its success.
“During the recession, we moved away from making kitchen products and stairs to fire doors and specialised furniture for commercial clients because that’s where the market was. Fire doors now account for 50 per cent of our overall business. We still manufacture kitchens for the UK market and fit staircases for private customers, but they’re only a small part of what we do,” James says.
Loughnane’s Joinery can offer veneered, laminated or paint grade flush doors which can be supplied with hard wood slipping and in a variety of designs and vision panels. The doors can also be supplied raw, primed or fully finished in FD30, FD60 and FD90 options. Mobility door widths are also available. Lead lined doors, for use as radiation barriers in X-ray departments, and acoustic doors, for use in sound studios, libraries and hospitals, are another speciality.
All of Loughnane’s fire doors are backed up by the Exova BM TRADA Q-Mark, which is regarded as one of the most rigorous certification processes available for construction products. While this demonstrates that the door meets the legally acceptable minimum standards, the Q-Mark manufacturer scheme provides additional reassurance that your products are fit for purpose through ongoing compliance to the original product specification. Loughnane’s Joinery is also in the process of obtaining CE marking for its fire doors.
The company has completed numerous major projects down the years and is currently carrying out the joinery fit-out of bedrooms, fire doors, minibars and wall panels as part of a €50 million revamp of Adare Manor, which could see the Co. Limerick venue become a contender to host golf’s Ryder Cup in 2026. The main contractor on the project is John Paul Construction. Another ongoing project involves the fit-out of fire doors, a bar and panelling at Kylemore Abbey in Co. Galway for Carey Contractors. Loughnane’s Joinery is also fitting out fire doors, screens, panelling and ceilings at Trinity College Dublin for Monami Construction and is undertaking the external and internal joinery works at Clifden Community School in Co. Galway for JJ Rhatigan. In addition to this, the joinery is fitting fire doors at Shannon Crematorium for Conack Construction.
Loughnane’s Joinery has been heavily involved with the extension of Ashford Castle in Co. Mayo in the past couple of years. It was the main joinery contractor for the 70’s Wing renovation and the Spa, and recently completed a 30-room fit-out in the Victorian wing.
“We also did the fit-out of 57 bedrooms in the East Wing and 16 rooms in The Lodge. We undertook these works for the Red Carnation Hotel Group, who have brought Ashford Castle to a new level in terms of comfort, class and service. The scope of works for the bedrooms in the 70’s Wing included bespoke internal architectural joinery doors, bespoke decorative architraves, customised vanity units and wardrobes,” James explains.
Westport Town Hall, St. Angela’s School in Cork, Stryker Corporation, also in Cork, and Lough Rea Spa Hotel in Loughrea, Co. Galway are other projects Loughnane’s Joinery has been recently associated it. The Westport Town Hall closed its door in 2008 and was renovated into a state-of-the-art theatre in 2015. Loughnane’s Joinery was contracted by L&M Keating to fit out the internal joinery, with Cherrywood being used throughout the development. L&M Keating was also the main contractor on the St. Angela’s School project. The works at the Lough Rea Hotel were carried out to the reception and dining area.
Loughnane Joinery’s reputation for manufacturing superior bespoke joinery products has seen it win prestigious contracts to supply furniture to Chelsea FC in London and to St. Andrew’s – the home of golf – in Scotland.
Loughnane’s Joinery
Monivea,
Athenry,
Co. Galway.
Telephone: 091 849024
Fax: 091 849294
Email: [email protected]
Taken from Building Ireland Magazine, August 2017, Vol 3 No 7
