What's the story with the big white house

Bussywussy · 21-01-2017 10:10PM #1

Anyone know what's going on at that big house next to Kilsaran? Seems to be a big project.

Dr Turk Turkelton · 22-01-2017 12:01AM

I believe they are constructing a motorcycle wall of death.

chewed · 22-01-2017 01:35PM

Bussywussy wrote: »

Anyone know what's going on at that big house next to Kilsaran? Seems to be a big project.

Shire Pharmaceuticals are setting up there.

http://www.idaireland.com/newsroom/shire-to-expand-biotechno/

scudzilla · 12-02-2017 08:44PM

So what's the story with the big white house by the old Plantagen nr Dunboyne?

I drive past it most days and was always intrigued by the warning signs of Loose Dobermans on site, was totally surrounded by tree's.

Now all the tree's are gone, the house is so lit up you can probably see it from space and there's some big construction work going on behind it

martinr5232 · 12-02-2017 09:16PM

Thats where the new pharmacutical plant is going.

PauloMN · 12-02-2017 09:48PM

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/shire-receives-planning-permission-for-co-meath-plant-1.2894932

scudzilla · 12-02-2017 09:57PM

Thanks

What has the white house got to do with it all, if anything? Wondering why all his tree's have been lobbed down

bladespin · 13-02-2017 01:05PM

Isn't it part of the site? I can remember when it's 'grounds' were huge, one of those 'someday' houses we pass occasionally, it'd be a shame it it was to go.

Vego · 13-02-2017 10:08PM

Always reminded me of Dallas ... Chances if them keeping it and converting to offices ...

heldel00 · 13-02-2017 10:15PM

Is this the house that you can see from the M3 going into blanch?

BANES · 13-02-2017 11:43PM

Actual fact: that house was based on Southfork ranch from Dallas on the telly. Classy

NufcNavan · 14-02-2017 12:49AM

So they're the lads mucking up the roads. One JCB sent a big clump of muck at my window that I'm surprised didn't leave a crack.

Argo foc yourself · 14-02-2017 02:02PM

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

I believe they are constructing a motorcycle wall of death.

ha ha eat the peach!

PauloMN · 14-02-2017 11:53PM

NufcNavan wrote: »

So they're the lads mucking up the roads. One JCB sent a big clump of muck at my window that I'm surprised didn't leave a crack.

Yep they're making a bit of a mess of the road there alright!

paul71 · 16-02-2017 09:21PM

Argo foc yourself wrote: »

ha ha eat the peach!

Am I really so old that only me and a few others know about this and the motorcycle wall of death?

Dr Turk Turkelton · 16-02-2017 10:12PM

paul71 wrote: »

Am I really so old that only me and a few others know about this and the motorcycle wall of death?

Unfortunately I'm there with ya buddy.
Used love that movie when I was a kid.

paul71 · 17-02-2017 10:02AM

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Unfortunately I'm there with ya buddy.
Used love that movie when I was a kid.

It got me thinking of films made in Meath on my way to work this morning, so the one mentioned here, Eat the Peach, Braveheart are obvious but there was a WW2 film made in Trim Castle back in the 1970s too. I think it had Lee Marvin in it but cannot remember the name.

Pudsey64 · 17-02-2017 10:47AM

paul71 wrote: »

It got me thinking of films made in Meath on my way to work this morning, so the one mentioned here, Eat the Peach, Braveheart are obvious but there was a WW2 film made in Trim Castle back in the 1970s too. I think it had Lee Marvin in it but cannot remember the name.

The Big Red One.

Kintarō Hattori · 17-02-2017 10:55AM

Interesting.... is it viewable from Google Maps or does anyone have any photos?

andreac · 17-02-2017 12:09PM

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Interesting.... is it viewable from Google Maps or does anyone have any photos?

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.4471983,-6.4736351,3a,75y,105.8h,80.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sb-LLbPURv-o71pN3aERiFQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Cant really see it as the trees are covering it.

chewed · 17-02-2017 02:40PM

Here's a better photo.

PauloMN · 17-02-2017 03:09PM

JR's house from the private jet.... can just about see the pillars.

https://goo.gl/maps/993rZrdQhJS2

chewed · 17-02-2017 05:50PM

I think the house used to be owned by the Peters family (County Club owner).

heldel00 · 17-02-2017 09:19PM

As a child I was always told that that house was owned by yer woman from "where in the world" and her husband that played the piano on the late late!

MastiffMrs · 19-02-2017 08:30AM

heldel00 wrote: »

As a child I was always told that that house was owned by yer woman from "where in the world" and her husband that played the piano on the late late!

The guy who played the piano owned a red brick house near Rathbeggan lakes. It's in behind black railings

MastiffMrs · 19-02-2017 08:31AM

chewed wrote: »

I think the house used to be owned by the Peters family (County Club owner).

Yep it was

kc66 · 19-02-2017 01:10PM

heldel00 wrote: »

As a child I was always told that that house was owned by yer woman from "where in the world" and her husband that played the piano on the late late!

That was another house close by.

heldel00 · 19-02-2017 03:13PM

kc66 wrote: »

That was another house close by.

We were also told that Jack and Vera Duckworth lived in another house further up the road so my parents were never the most reliable source of information!

Scotty # · 28-02-2017 01:09PM

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Unfortunately I'm there with ya buddy.
Used love that movie when I was a kid.

Twas on the telly over the xmas. Great for a bit of Ireland in the 80's nostalgia. I'd forgotton Pay Kenny had made a cameo in it.

https://youtu.be/aDYHjG5Tnds?t=1h14m11s

The whole movie is on Youtube.

JupiterKid · 05-04-2017 07:14PM

I remember when this house was built - back in the early 80s. It was THE original "McMansion!"

BTW why on earth is a pharmaceutical plant going in there as opposed to in a town such as Navan or Trim? That seems like very very poor planning to me.

bladespin · 05-04-2017 09:16PM

JupiterKid wrote:

BTW why on earth is a pharmaceutical plant going in there as opposed to in a town such as Navan or Trim? That seems like very very poor planning to me.

Motorway with easy airport access, not to mention colleges close by, ticks many boxes for the company.

What's the story with the big white house

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