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22 Nov 2025

LIVE: Plans submitted to change part of 300-year-old building in Tipperary into new café

The Office of Public Works have asked the council for permission to change the use of one floor in the historical building from a museum to a café.

LIVE: Plans submitted to change part of 300-year-old building in Tipperary into new café

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Plans to open up a new café in a Tipperary museum have been submitted to Tipperary County Council for consideration.

The plans relate to Damer House on Castle Street in Roscrea, a large building built around 1728 which now opens to the public as a heritage centre.

Plans submitted for the eighteenth-century building include: change of use from a visitor centre/museum to a café in the ground floor of the annex building.

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The Office of Public Works, who filed this planning application, also wish to reopen a window and two internal doors that were once in use in the building.

Damer House is a Protected Structure and is recorded on the Tipperary County Council record of protected structures (RPS No. TRPS924).

Tipperary County Council is scheduled to make a decision on the proposal by January 17 2026.

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