The 1,500m2 library building for clients Monaghan County Council, is the council’s flagship regeneration project for the small Irish border town of Clones. It comprises a branch library and local history collection, serving Clones and its environs, and the administrative headquarters for the Monaghan’s County Library Service, incorporating book processing, and dispatch facilities and back stock storage facilities. The main library is a double height volume with punched windows offering direct views over the new public square and the Church of the Sacred Heart to the north. Large scaled roof light slots, provide daylight into the heart of the library plan. Spaces for exhibition, local history and outreach meetings are all readily visible to the visitor, in adjacent single volume spaces. The project is part of a masterplan by Keith Williams Architects which has created a new public square and new pedestrian links into the town centre. The building is clad in off white honed aggregate reconstructed stone panels, which give an appropriate civic dignity to the architectural expression, and the building has become a key landmark in the town.