From the Iveagh Market to the Rialto cinema, some of the striking historic buildings around the city that are being allowed to fall to pieces
The council said it was still involved in a number of legal proceedings in relation to the Iveagh Markets and could not comment further. Mr Keane did not respond to queries. Funding of €9 million for essential conservation work to halt the structural decline of the Iveagh Markets in Dublin’s Liberties was approved by the Government this week.Dublin’s Victorian fruit and vegetable market was closed for redevelopment in 2019.
These plans did not survive the economic crash and in 2011 the council announced considerably more modest revamp of the building as a retail and wholesale food market. The following year it began repairs to the roof and in 2013 it drafted plans for the redevelopment with the intention of opening the new market in mid-2015.
Five years ago, Reliance Investments Ltd, a company associated with machinery hire firm Pat O’Donnell and Company, was granted permission to develop the house for offices and construct two new five-storey “office wings” in its grounds, despite criticism of the scheme by the Department of Heritage and conservation organisations.
The council spent €80,000 dealing with a rodent infestation and emergency stabilisation works, but the building remained derelict. In June 2021 it secured the agreement of city councillors, owned by Robert and Michael McCarthy, for €550,000. The company last year secured permission for its conversion into six apartments above a ground-floor shop.
In 2015, the building was taken over by squatters claiming to be anarchists, and was given the moniker the “Barricade Inn”. This group of squatters stayed for almost 12 months. A group of buildings located next to the Cobblestone Pub at No.77 King Street North in Smithfield. Planning permission was sought to develop a nine-storey, 114 bedroom hotel on the site but this was rejected by Dublin City Council in 2021. More than 700 objections were received by the council and an online petition racked up 35,000 signatories.
A three storey building with traditional brick upper facade and sash windows, it is one of the oldest remaining structures along Parnell Street. The site was first placed on the Derelict Sites Register in 2009, after the buildings had been boarded up a number of years previously. The stated owner, a Patrick Joseph Gallagher, opposed this in 2019, along with council planning inspector Colm McLoughlin who stated after review that the property was not in his opinion a derelict site.
However, the units were never redeveloped and the firm went into receivership in 2012, with Smith and Williamson Freaney appointed as the receivers.In December of 2021, Majack Hour Ltd, a Northern Ireland-based company, applied for “strategic housing redevelopment”. The grounds at Liffey Vale are planned to open on to a series of paths which will be built to allow universal access through a range of natural features, including woodland, wetland and the river itself.2-3 Mark’s Alley West, Dublin 8:The two houses were constructed in 1847 and were set to be demolished as part of plans for a new 37-bed hotel development.
It was not the first time plans for a repurposing this site have fallen through, with developer Eamonn Walsh seeking planning approval for a 38-apartment development back in 2004 that was refused by both the council and Bord Pleanála. No.10-13 Conyngham Road, a row of Victorian houses which are now derelict and owned by CIÉ. Photograph: Alan Betson
Windsor Motors vacated the premises in the late 1990s, with no one else taking up tenancy and it has remained vacant since. Aungier Street Properties bought the sites in 2015 for €1.4 million. The secretary of Aungier was Seán Browne, who is now a director at Balmar. Permission was granted but never acted upon. In 2012, Maybourne reapplied to have permission for an off-licence to be included, but this was denied.No.162-165 James Street was purchased by the HSE in March of this year. Photograph: Google Streetview
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