The Cloister, 49 Abbey Street, Ennis Co Clare
Change a bar and restaurant into multi-use community, exhibition, and heritage spaces.
248016 · Clare County Council · Lodged 20 December 2024
- Reference
- 248016
- Authority
- Clare County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 20 December 2024
Summary
AI-generatedThe project involves changing the use of a bar and restaurant into multi-use community, exhibition, heritage, and tourism spaces. It includes retaining the ground floor cafe and kitchen, installing an internal platform lift, creating an external 'Art Wall', and carrying out internal and external decoration.
Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.
Official record
Development description
To carry out the following development: the proposed works include for the following: a) change of use from bar and restaurant to multi-use community spaces, exhibition and heritage space, tourism space, the retention of existing ground floor cafe & existing kitchen (over two floors) and the retention of bar licence; b) addition of accessible platform lift internally to make all three floors accessible; c) addition of a universally accessible toilet and changing places toilet to ground floor; d) provision of storage internally: e) stripping out of superficial decoration such as carpets, internal walls and ceiling fittings; f) creation of 'art wall' on ground floor exterior onto abbey street in order to facilitate engagement with art in the public realm including digital display and projected media; g) internal and external decoration; h) signage externally. In accordance with the habitats directive, appropriate assessment screening has been carried out on the project. An environmental impact assessment (eia) screening determination has been made and concludes that there is no real likelihood of significant effects on the environment arising from the proposed development and as such an eia is not required. This development proposes works to a protected structure (rps no. : 736 / niah no. : 2000141 as noted in the clare county development plan 2023-2029 volume 4 and that is part of a national monument (no. 170/ rmp cl033-082001 - ennis friary complex)
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“The use of land for ‘mixed use’ developments shall incl. the use of land for a range of uses, making provision, where appropriate, for primary and secondary uses e.g. commercial/retail development as the primary use with residential dev. as secondary”
National zoning type: City/Town/village Centre, central area
Objective set by the Ennis and Environs (2023–2029). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.
Read the zoning objectives in the development planBuilt & sold
What happened next
Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.
Recent sales nearby
within 500 m| Address | Date | Price | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Francis St, Ennis, Co Clare | Mar 2025 | €150,000 | 147 m |
| 12a Bindon Lane, Bank Place, Ennis | Jan 2025 | €200,000 | 195 m |
| 2 Fergus Row, Ennis, Co. Clare | Apr 2025 | €212,000 | 207 m |
| 12 Bank Sq, Bindon Lane, Ennis | Feb 2026 | €197,500 | 214 m |
| 23 Park Row, Francis St, Ennis | May 2026 | €355,000 | 233 m |
| Court View, Lifford, Ennis | Feb 2026 | €190,000 | 235 m |
| 18 Steeles Terrace, Lifford, Ennis | Jun 2026 | €255,000 | 341 m |
| 19 Springfield Orchard, Ennis, Co Clare | Dec 2025 | €218,000 | 348 m |
Nearby properties, not this site — a guide to local values.
Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) and the Residential Property Price Register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Records are matched to this application by location and may not be exhaustive; always confirm against the official source before relying on them.
Key dates
Timeline
- Application received20 December 2024
- Decision due6 April 2025
- Decision issued10 March 2025
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