Residential

Striking period family home a lion’s roar away from Dublin zoo

Built in 1900, Meenmore on Marlborough Road in Dublin 7 has been tastefully updated and modernised to happily house a family

Meenmore, at No 7 Marlborough Road, is on the market for €1.025 million, located on an imposing red-brick terrace that imposing terrace retains the original architectural features of the late Victorian era. Picture: Keith Owens

Travelling along the North Circular Road, near to the Phoenix Park, it could be easy to miss the discreet cul-de-sac of Marlborough Road leading off. The 13 houses on the road were constructed in 1900 for officers of the British Army stationed at the then Marlborough Barracks, now better known as McKee Barracks.

The imposing terrace of redbrick, bay-windowed homes retain the original architectural features of the late Victorian era of which Meenmore, No 7 ...