page_title: Ballymun Flats
hierarchical_section_title: Ballymun Flats
caption_attribution_description: English: Tower in ballymun as of April 2007
context_page_description: The Ballymun Flats refers to a number of flats—including the Ballymun tower blocks, seven landmark residential towers built in the 1960s—in Ballymun, Dublin. In total there were 36 blocks of Ballymun flats. While nothing unusual by global standards, and small compared to Eastern European or Swedish norms, they were experimental for Ireland.
  They were all demolished in the early 21st century; from October 2013 all three remaining blocks were empty, and last one was demolished in September 2015.
  The 15-storey blocks actually had 17 storeys including the entrance floor and the plant room on the roof.
  The Plunkett tower, one of the original named after the signatories of the Proclamation, was a 42-metre, 8,500-tonne building. It housed 90 families in 30 three, two and one-bed units.
  There were also four-storey and eight-storey blocks.
context_section_description: The Ballymun Flats refers to a number of flats—including the Ballymun tower blocks, seven landmark residential towers built in the 1960s—in Ballymun, Dublin. In total there were 36 blocks of Ballymun flats (7 fifteen-storey, 19 eight-storey and 10 four-storey blocks). While nothing unusual by global standards, and small compared to Eastern European or Swedish norms, they were experimental for Ireland.
  They were all demolished in the early 21st century; from October 2013 all three remaining blocks were empty, and last one was demolished in September 2015.
  The 15-storey blocks actually had 17 storeys including the entrance floor and the plant room on the roof.
  The Plunkett tower, one of the original named after the signatories of the Proclamation, was a 42-metre, 8,500-tonne building. It housed 90 families in 30 three, two and one-bed units.
  There were also four-storey and eight-storey blocks.
caption: An April 2007 image of Joseph Plunkett Tower, the last remaining tower, in Ballymun. In the background the Sillogue Road flats can be seen.
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