wacky houses

Are you referring to the actual Mother Teresa house- out near Inchicore (or Walkinstown?) direction? A classic, ’tis true.
What about the house over near Croke Park that’s sandwiched between the railway line and the canal? (Not sure of the road- as a southsider I make it my business not to know too much about DNS :rolleyes: )

My friend lives in a free-standing folly-tower in the garden of his parents’ house, but I wouldn’t call it a house in its own right- no kitchen or jacks. Also, it should be a protected structure but it’s not (though they do take very good care of it), so he mightn’t appreciate a film crew putting it on the map.

Have you thought about barge dwellers in places like Hazelhatch (on the Dublin-Kildare border) or Sallins (not Dublin)?
Or the park-keeper’s house in St Stephen’s Green?

I’m scratching my head to think off-hand of others…

EDIT: What about Harry Crosbie, who lives in a warehouse overlooking Grand Canal Dock?
EDIT2: Or the woman who lives above the Happy Ring House on O’Connell St.? Or anyone who lives in 100 St Stephen’s Green? I know the houses aren’t odd, but the locations are certainly unusual.

Any more and I’ll have to charge you a consultancy fee. 😉

Aaaand…
The Irish Landmark Trust is guardian of a remarkable group of buildings available for short-term letting, though none is occupied year-round as a house. Light-houses, gate-lodges, etc. I’m sure they have a URL. Not sure how many are in Dublin, though.
Also, Nationwide did a feature on the organisation not so long ago, so the ground might be too freshly trodden for you.

A five minute report on ‘wacky houses’. Methinks a comment on the quest for novelty and anything that can be understood in 5 minutes as the staple diet offfered by most TV a bit more appropriate here. What is it MTV for the architecturally mildly interested but don’t push it?

@newdecade wrote:

Is the house between railway and canal just before you get to Marino? It’s green and white little cottage???!
And Harry Crosbie, who lives at Grand Canal Docks warehouse, is that the warehouses near Bolands Mill?

I think the lady of the Happy Ring House moved out so they are no longer residents of O Connell Street….

The little house is on the left as you go out of town over a bridge- you’re probably right that it’s the Marino road, but I can’t be sure.
I think Harry Crosbie’s place is on the spit of land that separates Grand Canal Dock from the Liffey, facing onto the dock (Hannover Quay?). Boland’s Mill is on the other side of the dock.
I heard on the radio recently- Pat Liddy interview- that the lady was still living on O’Connell Street, though it could have been recorded some time ago.

Lest anyone thinks I’m giving away personal details of the above owners, all of this info is not only in the public realm, it has been broadcast on the radio in the last couple of years too. I’m no stalker. 🙂

I cannot remember when/if the Malahide tower was sold, saw it in the Irish Times Property pages a few years ago.
The Martello at Bray was converted in the 1970’s and I heard that a bathroom was built into one of the walls, 12 foot thick.
The next one along the coast is on Killiney beach, south of the station, was sold (after a long time and big price reduction) circa 2001 for about 1 million. Was owned by an American,
The next is quite elevated, on Killiney Hill road, and as mentioned in an earlier posting is being re-done. Views from this will be superb.
Dalkey Island’s tower is I think now locked with a steel door.
The tower at Bullock (Bartra) is being renovated/converted and there was (is?) a row with An Taisce about a bridge link to a proposed dwelling.
Sandycove tower houses the Joyce Museum.
There was a tower I think on the site of the Peoples Park in Dun Laoghaire – now destroyed. Something in the hidden recesses of the mind tells me it was used in the Harbour works.
Seapoint and then Sandymount, latter looks a bit sad, varnish on doors should be redone.

They were also built on the Chesapeake.
Nice, but not as nice as Staigue Fort.

That green area around it has since been tarmaced, hasn’t it?