Carlow County -
Ireland Genealogical Projects (IGP
TM)
Erin Foods Cannery
Cannery
Road / Oak Park Road. Carlow
The old factory offices
This image belongs to Dermot O'Brien.
The old factory offices
This image of the factory before the fire
Source of pictures: Dermot O'Brien
on Old Carlow Photos Facebook. and Google Street view.
The factory was first built around
1926.
Erin Foods opened their factory on
the Cannery Road in 1962.
An enormous fire at the site in
December 2014 gutted the former factory, with some 900 bales
of straw which were stored on the site intensifyed the blaze
and leading to concerns about the asbestos within the
building. Ther wer
The former Erin Foods Factory became
a Waste/Refuse depot sometime in 2017 and is owned by Ray
Whelan Ltd.
