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MERRION HALL AND PART OF THE REAR OF, 2,3 AND 4 MERRION SQUARE, MERRION STREET, Dublin

AddressMERRION HALL AND PART OF THE REAR OF, 2,3 AND 4 MERRION SQUARE, MERRION STREET
CountyDublin
Licence refS3067

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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)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. Irish Times · "An Irishman's Diary" · 2006-01-04
  3. Irish Times · "O'Callaghan group to spend €30m renovating three Dublin hotels" · 2017-10-17
  4. Irish Times · "Settlement reached in dispute over works at Merrion Square property" · 2023-01-18

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