€7.5m price tag on site of sister cinema to Stella Rathmines

Mount Merrion site has full planning permission for 48 apartments, writes Tina-Marie O’Neill

Offers in the region of €7.5m are being sought for the former Stella Cinema in Mount Merrion

Lisney’s commercial department is seeking offers of €7.5 million for a prominent 0.84 acre site with residential planning permission on Deerpark Road, Mount Merrion, south Dublin. The site is currently occupied by furniture retailer Flanagan Kerins.

The impressive building was originally designed as the Stella Cinema Mount Merrion by Higginbotham & Stafford – the same firm that designed the Stella Theatre in Rathmines in 1923. The Rathmines cinema was recently renovated by O’Donnell ...