Commercial Property

Listed Abilene House in Blackrock to be converted into secondary school campus

Council gives permission to change the use of protected structure for new post-primary school on the 1.2 acre site

The Department of Education’s proposed €11.4m converted Abilene House flanked by two four-storey education blocks on its 1.2 acre site on Newtownpark Avenue in Blackrock. Image: gnet3d.com

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has given the Department of Education permission to change the use of Abilene House, a protected residential structure on Newtownpark Avenue, to create a new post-primary school and two new four-storey school blocks on the 1.2 acre site.

Abilene House was built in 1790 as a farmhouse on the Proby Estate and later, following an extension giving it a total of 335 square metres, the two-storey house became home to ...