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Belcamp House

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Fathers, and became a boarding school for boys. School facilities were built onto the original house but the original house still stands intact today. St Mary's Chapel was added to the complex in the early 1900s, and a two-storey red-brick accommodation wing. The chapel was adorned by 12 stained
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Planning permission was granted for the conversion of the main house into apartments, with a restaurant and childcare facility in one wing, and for 165 homes on the surrounding 15 hectares. Further housing proposals, including for five blocks of apartments, were to follow.
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The house was based on a similar model to the White House in Washington, and it included an "oval office". It is a three-storey over basement, seven-bay structure with a rusticated granite ground floor facade.
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As of summer 2018, the lands were in development. Gannon Homes at one time planned up to 2,000 residential units, but only a few hundred have yet been considered for planning permission.
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The estate features woodland and rolling grounds, and the at-times steep-sided valley of the Turnapin or Mayne. The Turnapin Stream, one of the two main branches of the
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were pupils at the school. Another former student at Belcamp was Fr Stewart Joseph Phelan OMI, who served as Navy chaplain in the Great War on HMS
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The house was much damaged by vandals and fire following the closure of the school in 2004, when it was sold to property developer
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Northwest of and behind the Hall is a walled garden. Now in poor repair, it once supplied the house with fruit and vegetables.
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and some local residents had concerns about the historic building and public rights of way on parts of the land.
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was a student at the college, he also helped Belcamp win the Leinster Colleges football final in 1965.
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A castellate monument was erected to George Washington, possibly the first such in the world.
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The school produced some successful Gaelic football sides, winning the GAA Secondary Schools,
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in 1921, 1965, 1967 and 1968, and twice runners-up in the All-Ireland Schools final (for the
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Chapel of the Novitiate of the Oblate Fathers of St. Mary Immaculate -Belcamp Home
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worked as an English and Irish teacher in Belcamp. The golfer
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Buildings listed on the Fingal Record of Protected Structures
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The college was established in 1893 as a juniorate for the
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by John Mulligan, Irish Independent, 5 January 2016.
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Georgian house and former school in Dublin, Ireland
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Belcamp House is located in Dublin
Georgian
Coolock
Coordinates
53°24′27″N 6°11′15″W / 53.407597°N 6.187444°W / 53.407597; -6.187444
James Hoban
Sir Edward Newenham
www.belcamp.ie
Malahide Road
Balgriffin
Dublin
James Hoban
White House
Washington, D.C.
Oval Office
James Hoban
White House
Sir Edward Newenham
George Washington
Oblate
Harry Clarke
Brendan Gleeson
Philip Walton
Tony Doyle
Thomas Groome
Frank Cummins
Leinster Colleges Senior Football Championship
Hogan Cup
Father Tom Scully

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