Contacting owners of RIC Barracks is ongoing saga

IDENTIFYING and contacting the owners of the RIC Barracks in Clondalkin is an ongoing saga, with South Dublin County Council again detailing their difficulties in doing so.

At the recent area committee meeting for Clondalkin, Cllr Eoin Ó Broin asked the council to describe their efforts to contact the owners of the former RIC Barracks on the Old Nangor Road in Clondalkin.

The reasoning behind the question is that the building “has been abandoned for some time, and is becoming increasingly overgrown with ivy”.

In response, the council explained how at “various times” its Enforcement and Licencing, and Environment, Water and Climate Change departments made efforts to contact the owner of the property.

These efforts include posting notices on the property and having “conversations with estranged relatives of the owner”.

Efforts to contact the property owner also included calling to business premises operated by the owner, written correspondence to a business premises, and phone calls to the business.

According to the council, ownership of the land is not registered on the land registry and transferring of ownership “has not been completed”.

The private property has been vacant for several years and last year, the council said that attempts to serve notices or gain authorised access to facilitate a proper inspection of the property have been “exhausted as the owner is in absentia”.

The old RIC Barracks is subject to an objective in the South Dublin County Development Plan 2022 – 2028.

This objective is “to investigate the purchase and development of the old RIC Barracks on the Old Nangar Road which is a Protected Structure within the present Architectural Conservation Area”.

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