Offices & Industrial Spaces

Ireland's industrial history is written into its landscape in ways that are easy to overlook. The mills that processed grain and wool during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The factories that drew rural workers into urban employment during the twentieth. The office buildings that replaced them, often on the same ground, with no particular acknowledgement of what came before — and the older buildings repurposed as offices that carry their original histories behind the suspended ceilings and partition walls.

The reports from these locations tend to share certain characteristics. Machinery sounds in buildings where no machinery has operated in decades. Figures seen on factory floors after closing. Lifts that operate without passengers. An unease in particular rooms or on particular floors that long-term staff know about and newcomers discover for themselves.