Balbriggan Library is a located in a Carnegie Free Library, built in 1905 and an extension, built in 2006. The original protected library building, which now houses a lecture room on ground floor level and librarian's office on the 1st floor, is built in Scottish Baronial style. The walls are Portmarnock red brick with limestone dressings and feature numerous limestone carvings and plaques, the interior features moulded cornicing and a timber window architrave. A special feature of the original building is the corbelled circular plan clock tower/turret. The clock tower's spire is supported by limestone brackets and terminates in a weathervane.

The library was renovated in 1981 and renovated and extended in 2006 as part of the re-development of George's Square. The three-storey extension, to the rear and side of the original building, houses the adult lending library and exhibition space on the ground floor and the children and young adult lending library on the 1st floor. There is a shared meeting and conference rooms on the 2nd floor and 2 levels of integrated parking at basement level, providing a total of 114 parking spaces.

For further information please contact Fingal County Council Library Authority