Description | Cavan County Council Library and Ramor Theatre |
Type | Civic, Cultural, educational |
Location | Virginia, Co. Cavan |
Size | 1,500sq.m |
Team | Cooney Architects: Frank Cooney, Ricardo Tolentino, Lara Garcia, Pedro Pinto, Bryan BradyKeys & Monaghan Architects: Eamonn Monaghan, Natalie Taylor |
The Ramor Theatre, Parochial house and new Library are set in the Historic Plantation town of Virginia, Co. Cavan. The Ramor Theatre provides the county and surrounding parish’s with a creative breakout, it will now form part of the new Library and cultural hub, of the new Virginia public library. The 2 storey buildings, will provide a multi-storey complex of learning, while supporting the adjoining institution of a working theater. The new library building was carefully placed on the steeply sloping site, to engage the busy main street it faces at the front and the Blackwater river at the rear. |