Here is The Studio Map’s mini-directory to film studios located in Ireland. This organic post will be updated regularly to include broadcast/TV studios and links to new studios that are in the construction or planning stages. We invite all Irish-based production crew, managers or studio operators to contribute comments, advice and news here, regarding studio developments in Ireland.
Ireland is home to several world-class film studios but there is a thrust to expand the facilities because of international demand. Its popularity for productions is down to excellent tax breaks, fantastic rural locations, well-regarded English-speaking crew (a big attraction for US film companies), membership of the EU and Ireland’s renowned hospitality.
List of Irish Film Studios:
• Ashford Studios – Ashford, County Wicklow
Website: http://www.ashfordstudios.com • Phone: +353 (0) 404 78700 •
Email: info@ashfordstudios.com
• Troy Studios – Limerick
Website: http://troystudios.ie • Email: film@troystudios.ie
• Ardmore Studios – Bray, County Wicklow
Website: http://www.ardmore.ie • Phone: +353 1 286 2971
• Email: film@ardmore.ie
• Telegael Studios – Bohoona East, County Galway
Website: http://www.telegael.com • Phone: +353 91 558600 •
Email: info@telegael.com
• Kite Studios – Kilcoole, County Wicklow
Website: http://www.celticgrips.ie/kite.html
• Phone: +353 87 292 4191
• Studio 14 – Dublin
Website: http://www.studio14.ie/ • Phone: +353 86 2669002
• Font Hill Studios – Dublin
Website: https://www.fonthillstudios.ie/
List of TV and Broadcast Studios:
• RTE Studios Ireland – Dublin
Website: https://studios.rte.ie/ • Phone: +353 208 3492
• IADT – Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
Website: https://iadt.ie/about/campus-info/resources-facilities • Phone: +353 1 239 4000 • Email: info@iadt.ie
List of Studios Under Construction or Awaiting Planning Permission
• Silver Rock Studios – a new purpose-built studio, in Tipperary, launching in 2022.
• Greystones Media Campus – County Wicklow. 270,000 sq. ft. of sound stages.
• Ashbourne Studios – Ashbourne, County Meath. 88,000 sq. ft. of sound stages.
• Grange Castle Business Park – Kilmahuddrick, Dublin – 12 sound stages.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Mick Haupt via Unsplash
As a producer, The Studio Map is an invaluable tool for both my production teams and myself. It actually saves hours of trying to source and then review individual studio websites, all with varying specifics on offer that can quite frankly cause confusion. The clarity of this site versus other production guides allows the viewer a clean, swift search with all the finer details immediately to hand so they can make a fast decision on the right location. As a producer who shoots on a global scale I am glad to see TSM develop further beyond the UK and US to now providing key information for other countries including Ireland, which is renowned for its film production, crew and facilities. However, I would love to see the recommend studios here noted in more specific detail on their own page akin to the other UK and US versions as that is the key factor to save time and as we all know in production there is never enough time!
Thanks, Audrey, for the comment about the usefulness of The Studio Map. There’s so much more I want to add to the scope of the guide, in terms of user features, as we expand globally.
Hopefully over the next few years this list will expand and more will become available!
Great resource for a Location Manager like myself to have.
Karl