The Davenport Hotel
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- Listed name
- The Davenport HotelRecorded 2026-09-11
- Listed address
- 8-10 Merrion Street Lower, DublinRecorded 2026-09-11
- Phone
- (01) 607 3500Recorded 2026-09-11
- Website
- https://www.davenporthotel.ie/?utm_source=googlelisting&utm_medium=organicRecorded 2026-09-11
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Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref S3067 as a Publican's Licence (Ordinary) Hotel - BF - 1902 Act (Public Bar) for THE DAVENPORT HOTEL at MERRION HALL AND PART OF THE REAR OF, 2,3 AND 4 MERRION SQUARE, MERRION STREET in DUBLIN CITY with PERSIAN PROPERTIES as licensee.[1]
An Irish Times diary in 2006 described Merrion Hall as raised in the 1860s to house 2,000 Plymouth Brethren and said it was then the Davenport Hotel.[2] In 2017, The Irish Times reported that the O'Callaghan Hotel Group planned to spend EUR30 million transforming three Dublin properties: the Stephen's Green Hotel, the Alexander and the Davenport.[3] The Irish Times reported in 2023 that a dispute over works concerned the Merrion Building property situated between the Davenport Hotel and 1 Merrion Square North.[4]
Sources (4)
- Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
- Irish Times · "An Irishman's Diary" · 2006-01-04
- Irish Times · "O'Callaghan group to spend €30m renovating three Dublin hotels" · 2017-10-17
- Irish Times · "Settlement reached in dispute over works at Merrion Square property" · 2023-01-18
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- Listed name · observed 2026-09-11
- The Davenport Hotel
- Listed address · observed 2026-09-11
- 8-10 Merrion Street Lower, Dublin
- Phone · observed 2026-09-11
- (01) 607 3500
- Website · observed 2026-09-11
- https://www.davenporthotel.ie/?utm_source=googlelisting&utm_medium=organic