Boland’s Bakery

Boland’s Bakery was the largest bakery in Dublin in the late 19th century. The company sold a range of products, such as bread, biscuits, cakes, confectionery and flour. The original bakery was located close to Capel Street between Mary Street and Little Mary Street. The company had a number of production facilities around the city such as the buildings around Grand Canal Dock including Boland’s Mill as well as a distribution network including their own stores.

In the late 1970s Boland’s merged with Jacobs Biscuits Limited, to form Irish Biscuits Limited, with much of the production moved to premises in Belgard, Tallaght. In 2004 production at the Tallaght facility stopped.

1835 – Boland’s Mills, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin

Former mill building, part of the large Boland’s milling complex. The remainder of the complex has been demolished for redevelopment.

1870 – Boland’s Bakery, 133-136 Capel Street, Dublin

Architect: Charles Geoghegan

Designed as a bakery for Patrick Boland and incorporating an earlier Presbyterian church in Mary’s Abbey (a laneway to the rear).

1874 – Boland’s Bakery, Grand Canal Quay, Dublin

Architect: Charles Geoghegan

Also known as the City of Dublin Bakery,

1880 – Boland’s Bakery, 14 Cumberland St., Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin

Boland’s Bakey at one time had a network or shops as well as bakeries around Dublin.

1880s – Boland’s Bakery, 9 Georges St., Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin

One of the Boland’s retail shops around Dublin, this shop on George’s Street was a fine Victorian building,

1951 – Boland’s Biscuit Mills, Grand Canal Street, Dublin

Architect: Samuel Stevenson & Sons

Built on the site of a building occupied by Éamon de Valera during the 1916 Easter Rising,

1959 – Boland’s Biscuits, Deansgrange, Co. Dublin