48| McAleer & Teague
New Head Office for McAleer & Teague Ltd. Celebrating their 60th year in business, Dromore construction company McAleer & Teague Ltd. have just moved into new premises in the Tyrone town...
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ust over sixty years ago, Barney McAleer and Terence Teague set up their own building firm in the Tyrone town of Dromore. Back in 1953, their early work included local authority housing and small private housing projects. Through experience and success they developed a reputation for top quality craftsmanship at a good price and began to take on larger housing projects (including work for NIHE), schools and many of the Wellworth’s Stores of the 1970s and 80s. In 1972, McAleer & Teague was awarded a contract to build 376
houses at Strathroy near Omagh – one of the largest projects in NI at the time, valued at £2m and certainly set the company on the path to becoming one of Northern Ireland’s top builders. This was the first of many high profile projects for the company. McAleer & Teague Ltd. went on to undertake specialist works for the National Trust at Castlecoole, Florencecourt and Crom Castle. The company also carried out much of the building work for the Wellworth stores that expanded across Northern Ireland in the seventies and eighties and built the premises for the supermarket chain in
Newry, Cookstown, Armagh, Omagh, Strabane and Enniskillen. There were also major renovations at Cookstown and Magherafelt Leisure Centres and a new extension at the Loreto Convent in Omagh. Two new chapels were also built in Drumquin and their hometown of Dromore. These would lead on to the award winning refurbishment and conservation scheme at the Grade A listed St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh in 2003 and a number of other notable church restoration projects at St. Mary’s Church in Killyclogher, St. Mary’s Church in Drumragh, Tyrone & Fermanagh Hospital’s RC Church, the Holy Trinity Church in Cookstown .
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McAleer &Teague also worked on the History Park at Gortin, Omagh and completed major extensions to the pilgrimage site at Lough Derg. The company also pioneered the use of timber framed construction for private housing in the Republic of Ireland in a pilot scheme that involved the building of 26 private houses with solar heating and increased insulation. Another pioneering project was the creation of the new Itec Centre in Enniskillen which saw a steel frame dropped into the centre of the building so that the exterior of the listed building was untouched but the interior could be enhanced to modern requirements.