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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, June 20, 2016

MOTION NO. 16

MOTION: Councillor P. Foley

To ask that the Chief Executive to consider the purchase of the Orlagh Retreat Centre. The lands to the back are already Council owned and it would allow the Council to put an access road through this site as an enhancement to the Dublin Mountain Project.

REPORT:

Orlagh House is an extended Georgian house dating from 1790. Comprising 31 bedrooms, reception rooms, Oratory and kitchen facilities, it was until recently managed by its owners the Augustinian Order as a retreat centre. It is a protected structure the uses for which are limited and acknowledged by the vendor. It is not appropriate for the Council to engage in public debate about the value or otherwise of a property for sale, beyond the information contained in the vendors sales marketing material. In the context of this Council’s tourism aspirations for the Dublin Mountains I will arrange for the potential of the property to be further assessed.