Slate & copper roofing · Galway · since 1962
Third-generation slate specialists for period homes across the west of Ireland. Surveyed honestly, dressed by hand, guaranteed for the weather that is actually coming.
The firm
Tom Feeney nailed his first Bangor Blue in 1962. His son John took over the hooks and the ladders in 1989. Today John's daughter Máire runs the scaffold, and the three of them still argue about head laps at Sunday dinner. We are small on purpose: one crew, one job at a time, no subbies on your roof.
Most of our work is within an hour of Galway — terraces in the Claddagh, farmhouses in Connemara, chapels and schoolhouses that have kept their slate for a century and deserve to keep it for another.
The craft
Scroll through the build-up we hang on every job. Nothing exotic — just the correct assembly, in the correct order, fixed with copper because copper outlives us.
What we do
DOCKET Nº 01
Strip, survey the timbers honestly, re-felt, re-batten, and hang new or reclaimed slate. We photograph everything we find and price the difference before we touch it.
DOCKET Nº 02
Valleys, ridge rolls, flashings, bay and dormer roofs — folded on the bench, dressed on the roof. Bright for the first year; quietly brown for the next eighty.
DOCKET Nº 03
Slipped slates, failed flashings, a stain spreading on a ceiling. We answer the phone in the weather that caused it, make it safe, then fix it properly.
Materials
GWYNEDD, WALES · 53.17° N
Heather-blue, 500 million years old, splits like a book. The aristocrat.
GALICIA, SPAIN · 42.42° N
Dense graphite grey, ruler-flat, honest value. Our working standard.
RECLAIMED · c. 1880–1940
The slate half of Ireland grew up under. We buy, grade and rehang them.
CO. KERRY, IRELAND · 51.92° N
Green-grey Irish stone for conservation work that must match exactly.
“Feeney reslated our 1840s terrace with the original Bangor Blues. Standing on the street now, you cannot tell where the old roof ends and theirs begins — which is precisely the point.”
— Conservation architect, Salthill (roof Nº 371)
Contact
Send the form or ring the office. A survey is a ladder, a notebook and an honest hour — we charge nothing for it within County Galway.
091 555 214