Main Street, Doon, Co. Limerick
Approved in Sept 2025. No sign of building yet.
- 6 Dec 2024Received
- 26 Aug 2025Conditional
- 29 Sept 2025Final approval
- 28 Sept 2030Approval runs out
Earlier approval here ran out with no sign of building: 221320 (2023), 21349 (2021)
- Status
- Approved
- Decision
- Conditional · 26 Aug 2025
- Council
- Limerick City and County Council
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Site
- 1.81 ha
What’s proposed
conversion / change of use of three storey convent building to accommodate 23 No: independent community living use apartments. The proposed works consist of the following: 1. The provision of a new entrance roadway to the east side onto main street (R505). 2. Removal of sections of boundary walls to main street. 3. Construction of a new car park. 4. Removal of later 20th century extensions. 5. Addition of two three storey end block extensions. 6. Provision of a commercial kitchen on the ground floor of the proposed east block extension. 7. Provision of seating in the east ground floor wing of the convent. 8. Provision of new door ope to southern courtyard to restaurant terrace. 9. Provision of PV panels on the south facing roof slope of the central convent block. 10. Alterations to the internal layouts. 11. Repairs to the historical fabric of the building. 12. All associated site works. Sisters of Mercy Convent Doon is on the NIAH (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) Schedule, Ref No: 21809006. The Convent building complex and curtilage is a candidate Protected Structure
Planning details
- Reference
- 2461219
- Local authority
- Limerick City and County Council
- Status
- Granted with conditions · register status “APPLICATION FINALISED”
- Received
- 6 Dec 2024
- Decision due
- 26 Aug 2025 · decided 26 Aug 2025
- Decision
- Conditional on 26 Aug 2025
- Site area
- 1.81 ha from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
Nearby 7 · 500 m · 12 months
- GrantedKilmoylan Lower , Doon , Co. Limerick
- Granted3 Assumption Terrace , Doon , Co. Limerick
- GrantedMain Street , Doon , Co. Limerick
- GrantedKilmoylan Lower , Doon , Co. Limerick
- GrantedScoil na Braithre , Doon , Co. Limerick
- RefusedFormer St. Joseph's Secondary School , Lisgaugh , Doon Co. Limerick
- RefusedDoon Social Farm , Lisgaugh , Doon Co. Limerick
- GrantedMain Street , Doon , Co. Limerick
- Appeal decidedBottle Hill , Doon , Co. Limerick
- GrantedToher Road , Lisgaugh , Doon Co. Limerick
- GrantedKilmoylan Lower , Doon , C0. Limerick
- GrantedFormer Sisters of Mercy Convent Doon , Lisgaugh , Doon
- WithdrawnToher Road , Lisgaugh , Doon
- WithdrawnFormer Sisters of Mercy Convent Doon , Lisgaugh , Doon Co. Limerick
Homes nearby
Zoning
The main town centre — retail, offices, civic uses, apartments.
Zoned to protect agriculture, rural enterprise and biodiversity. New houses are restricted to demonstrated local need.
An established residential area. The objective is to protect existing residential amenity as well as to provide housing — which is the objective a neighbour's objection to an overbearing extension is usually argued under.
Reserved for the schools, creches, community and health facilities a neighbourhood needs.
Protections nearby 250 m
- NIAH-recorded building · 18
- Recorded monument · 3
Where this comes from
National planning feed (NPAD), fetched 18 Sept 2026, 15:44.
Source: National Planning Application Database · fetched 18 Sept 2026, 15:44
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
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| National Planning Application Database | CC BY 4.0 | 18 Sept 2026, 15:44 | open |
Summary
2461219 is a planning application to Limerick City and County Council for conversion / change of use of three storey convent building to accommodate 23 No, received on 6 Dec 2024; permission was granted with conditions on 26 Aug 2025.