Housing development likely for Eircom training centre

Hamilton Osborne King is suggesting a guide price of over £5 million for a former convent on 4

Hamilton Osborne King is suggesting a guide price of over £5 million for a former convent on 4.5 acres at Glandore Road, off Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9, which goes to auction on November 16th. The property is being sold on behalf of Eircom, which has been using the two-storey building as a training centre. It is close to an apartment site being developed on a joint venture basis by PJ Walls and Morrison Homes. A feasibility study of the Eircom site by architects Anthony Reddy and Associates suggests that the site could accommodate a mixture of 112 to 198 houses and apartments. The same agency expects to secure over £1.5 million for a site of less than a quarter of an acre close to the Morrison Hotel at Lower Ormond Quay and Great Strand Street, Dublin 1. It goes to tender next month.