Boston Irish Construction LLC

Boston Irish Construction is a Cambridge-based general contractor built around one name: Cathal Crossan, who owns and runs the company and turns up as the point of contact in review after review. It describes itself as a design-build shop handling residential and commercial construction, renovation, and restoration, with a stated service area running from Watertown and Brookline to Back Bay, Roxbury, and Charlestown. Thirteen Google reviews back that up, and all thirteen are five stars. The most recent ones read the same way the pattern has held all along. In June, a client had a storm-damaged three-season patio converted into a full covered deck, describing Cathal as communicative throughout and willing to talk through options rather than just showing up with a plan already decided. In May, two more reviewers landed on the same thing from different jobs — a window and wooden-floor replacement at Emmets Bar & Restaurant, and a separate wood-floor job delivered on budget — both crediting him with staying responsive and following through on what was promised. There's one thing worth noting rather than worrying about: outside the company's own site, almost everything written about it — on Birdeye, Threads, BuildZoom, a local contractor roundup — turns out to be the same handful of Google reviews being echoed, not independent accounts. That's not a red flag, but it means this five-star record rests on one primary source rather than a spread of them, so it's worth reading the Google page directly rather than any secondhand summary of it. Boston Irish Construction looks like the right call for a defined renovation project — a deck, a floor replacement, a full room or unit rebuild — where having the owner himself running the job matters more than a big crew. Get the scope and budget in writing and confirm license and insurance details directly; nothing here raises a complaint or a missed deadline, and recent reviews line up with the year-plus of history behind them.