Recent L&A stonework & restoration — near Leixlip.
We're the stonemasons trusted with the €350,000 restoration of The Wonderful Barn's historic walls, right here in Leixlip. Stone wall repair, lime repointing, render removal and heritage restoration — with free site visits and 20+ years' experience.
Leixlip sits right on the Dublin–Kildare border where the Rye Water meets the Liffey, and it's a town of two halves for stonework. There's the old core — Leixlip Castle, the historic village, the estate walls and, of course, the landmark Wonderful Barn — and then the huge modern growth around it, from housing estates to the big employment campuses. We work across both.
For the older stone, we use traditional methods and lime mortar, which is what Leixlip's period walls and cut stone were built for. For newer homes, we build solid new boundary and feature walls, entrance pillars and natural-stone cladding. We're based in Navan, a straight run over, cover Leixlip regularly, and we're fully insured with a free-site-visit-first approach.
Recent L&A stonework & restoration — near Leixlip.
You've probably passed it — the striking corkscrew towers off the Barnhall road. We were trusted with the €350,000 restoration of the historic boundary walls that enclose The Wonderful Barn: structural rebuilding where they'd failed, and full repointing of hundreds of metres of old rubble-stone wall, all in traditional lime mortar, to conservation standards. It's the kind of protected-structure work that only comes to a team that can prove it does this properly — and it's right on Leixlip's doorstep.
Drag the slider to see one of the wall sections — from failed and eroded stonework back to sound, sympathetically repointed heritage wall.
It's the biggest heritage project in the area, and it's ours. If you've historic stone in Leixlip that needs the same care, you're in the right hands.
See the full case study →Repair, rebuild and new boundary, garden and retaining walls.
Learn more →Lime-mortar repointing and heritage work on period & protected buildings.
Learn more →Strip old pebbledash & cement render, then repoint or re-render in lime.
Learn more →Stone entrances, gateways and pillars built to suit your property.
Learn more →Chimney, house and lime-mortar repointing done to last.
Learn more →Real projects across Kildare, Dublin and Meath.
View gallery →"I would like to thank this firm for the stonework on a large project. Both the work and the employees were of the highest quality and did more than expected of them. I would highly recommend this company."
Kimmage Hardware · Google review"I can not recommend Arthur and his team highly enough, they started on the agreed date and nothing was a problem after that... 10/10 in everything they done for me, very professional team of guys."
Alan Bow · Google reviewYes — we carried out the €350,000 restoration of the historic boundary walls at The Wonderful Barn in Leixlip, one of Kildare's best-known 18th-century landmarks and a protected structure. It involved structural rebuilding and full repointing of hundreds of metres of old rubble-stone wall in traditional lime mortar. See the case study →
Yes. Leixlip has plenty of older stone — around the village, the castle and the Rye Water — that was built to breathe. We repoint it in lime mortar, not hard cement, so the stone stays sound and damp isn't trapped in the wall.
We can. Alongside the historic core, Leixlip has grown enormously, so we do a lot of new work too — boundary and feature walls, entrance pillars and natural-stone cladding to lift the front of newer homes.
Yes. We strip old pebbledash and hard cement render off houses and walls, then repoint the brick or stone, expose it, or re-render in breathable lime. It's one of our most requested jobs across Kildare and Dublin. More on render removal →
Yes, no charge and no obligation. We'll call out, look at the job, talk through the options and give you a clear, itemised quote.
From historic wall restoration to a new entrance or getting old render off — tell us what you have and we'll arrange a free site visit and an honest quote.