Final phase of homes being built at former Magee Barracks site in Kildare

Construction of 29 new homes as part of a development of almost 400 homes at the former Magee Barracks site in Kildare.

The overall project spanning an 11 hectare site has an estimated construction value of €60m.

Planning permission was granted to Dublin-based Ballymount Properties Ltd for 375 new homes and a creche.

This included the demolition of 17 buildings including a range of former barracks buildings, the Officers’ Mess building and a water tower structure.

Also in the designs is a neighbourhood centre comprising of three shop units, a café and gallery and a two-storey creche. 

Magee Barracks was the site of a British Army barracks since the early 1900s and subsequently was a depot for Garda Síochana in the 1920s.

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A new barracks was built on the site in 1938 and was named after gunner James Magee.

In 1996, there were approximately 165 army personnel and 30 civilians employed at the barracks but the facility closed in 1998.

The barracks was later used as a reception centre for Kosovar refugees and asylum seekers.