Report - Irlandus Circuits Factory Nov 2018, Co Armagh

[Urbex_NI]

This is an old explore from 2018 of the old Irlandus Circuits Factory in Craigavon/Lurgan

This site was opened in 1972 and closed in 2005 (According to Company House). I know they made passive electronic components and printed circuit boards for the higher end of the market and they were used by data and telecoms equiptment manufacturers. I cannot find any images of the site from when it was in operation..

Irlandus was owned by Californian based company SMTEK International until there was a management buy out of the Lurgan site putting it into local hands. I believe at some point it was also called DDL Electronics.

I know the site was a lot bigger but the factory was demolished due to a fire several years ago leaving only the admin/office block.

Nothing inside this place apart from fixtures and fittings which i weirdly find interesting.

This site has now been completely leveled apart from the tall steam chimney.

Thanks for reading

 

[dweeb]

Good to see stuff coming out of Ireland, keep 'em coming!

 

[Karlschneider]

I attended the opening of the new DDL circuit board production line at this factory in June 1990. The opening ceremony was also attended by Richard Needham MP, who was a Northern Ireland minister at the time. He had just been embarrassed because one of the paramilitary groups had intercepted a phone call from him in which he said “I wish the old cow would resign”, referring to the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. I was sitting on a table with one of the Northern Ireland Office press officers, who thought it was very amusing!