What is this place?

[OisinT]

Does anyone know what this place is/used to be? It looks abandoned and like a total waste of good property.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=&daddr=53.354224,-6.265555&hl=en&geocode=&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=19&sll=53.354033,-6.265892&sspn=0.001486,0.004128&ie=UTF8&ll=53.354021,-6.265632&spn=0.001486,0.004128&t=h&z=19

[GrahamH]

It's the very substantial theatre built for Coláiste Mhuire, Oisin - one of the largest of its kind in the city in fact. It is faced in yellow brick and of a 1960s idiom not unlike the doomed Royal Dublin Hotel. The huge double doors punched into the house face on Palace Row give access to a wide corridor which marches through the house out into the covered passageway seen in the aerial view, and into the theatre. Apparently it's still in decent nick too.

[OisinT]

thanks... I had no idea it was connected to Coláiste Mhuire, another waste of a great building and location. I saw a bit of activity at Coláiste Mhuire about 2 months ago, but nothing since. Anyone know what they're up to there?

[tommyt]

thanks... I had no idea it was connected to Coláiste Mhuire, another waste of a great building and location. I saw a bit of activity at Coláiste Mhuire about 2 months ago, but nothing since. Anyone know what they're up to there?

Previous info here:

http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=7261

[OisinT]

Previous info here:

http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=7261

Thanks.... still no movement on it in over 12 months I guess. Shame, could be a great boom to parnell square.

[Paul Clerkin]

I'd love to see inside it....

[notjim]

From Dorset St

[OisinT]

Some scaffolding has gone up behind Coláiste Mhuire last week or 2 weeks ago. I saw lots of movement on the roof today and it looks like some demolition is happening on the roof.
Anyone know if something is finally going to be happening here?