Renaissance of the petrol stations sold for housing.Byline: Ian Carey AT the height of the property boom, developers snapped up all the premium sites they could get their hands on - including many of Dublin's petrol petrol: see gasoline. stations. One such site on the capital's southside, for example, was due to be transformed into a luxury seven-storey development containing 31 apartments. But as the property market crashed, developers and potential buyers began having second thoughts. The plans for that halfan-acre site, in the exclusive suburb of Mount Merrion Mount Merrion (Cnoc Mhuirfean in Irish) is a predominantly upper-middle class suburb roughly 5 miles (7km) south of Dublin City centre, Ireland, situated on and around the hill of the same name, which forms the first foothill of the Dublin Mountains. , were shelved - and the plot sold. The Earlsfort Group, which bought the site in 2007, may be pleased to have sold up, but it may not see the funny side of its next incarnation incarnation, the assumption of human form by a god, an idea common in religion. In early times the idea was expressed in the belief that certain living men, often kings or priests, were divine incarnations. - as, eh, a petrol station. And this is far from the only development to experience such a fate, it seems. Joe Barrett Joe Barrett was a very successful Gaelic footballer from County Kerry in Ireland in the 1920s. Joe won six All-Ireland senior football finals medals with Kerry in 1924, 1926 and the 4-in-row teams of 1929 to 1932, when he was also captain. , director of Apple Green service stations explained: 'Over the last four or five years we have seen developers getting interested in service stations as potential sites for apartments. 'Developers saw them as having great potential as they were roadside, usually on around an acre - and often in a good location. 'But now more and more prime locations are coming on the market as developers abandon plans for apartments. We're expanding at the moment. We just opened a filling station in Ballinteer.' The original service station was to be turned into two apartment blocks, with an underground car park and two penthouse penthouse Enclosed area on top of a building. A penthouse can be an apartment on the roof or top floor of a building or a structure on the roof housing the top of an elevator shaft, air-conditioning equipment, or stairs leading to the roof. flats with spectacular views of the city. However, after some initial rejections from the planning authority and the property crash, the group cut its losses and sold up. It is to be replaced by a sixpump island, cafe, shop and deli. And the former Shell station on the Merrion Road Merrion Road (Bóthar Mhuirfean in Irish), in Ireland, runs south from Ballsbridge on Dublin's southside to the Merrion Gates, where it becomes the Rock Road. Landmarks on Merrion Road include:
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