The derelict property where tragic schoolgirl Ana Kriegel was murdered is to be converted into a nursing home.
Despite calls for it to be demolished Glenwood House is being fixed up to accommodate a 119-bedroom care facility.
Fingal County Council granted permission to Sherborough Properties for the protected structure off St Catherine’s Park in Dublin.
Ana’s naked body was discovered there three days after the 14-year-old went missing in May 2018.
The 14-year-old had been beaten, sexually assaulted and left to rot in the squalid hell-hole.
In 2019, two 14-year-olds, identified in court only as Boy A and Boy B, were jailed over Ana’s murder.
At the time then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar led calls for Glenwood House to be torn down. He said of the farmhouse near Lucan: “It’s very hard to pass that building without thinking of what happened there.
“It is not in my view a building of enormous architectural merit and I would like to see the designation lifted by the council and to have that building demolished.”
Glenwood House was bought for €10.5million by Sherborough Properties in the early 2000s. It has protected structure status and is privately owned by the O’Callaghan family, who run a hotel chain.
Planning permission was granted in 2016 for a 62-bed nursing home but a fresh application for a bigger project was lodged – and refused – a year later.
The latest planning decision allows for partial retention of the dilapidated country manor on 105 acres which was built around 1800.
Planners attached several conditions to the permission, including a €209,553 development levy and
additional charges payable to Irish Water.
Last year, Fingal County Council urged the owners to secure the site which it acknowledged had gained a level of “notoriety”.
Sherborough Properties did not respond to a request for comment.
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