MMRA Membership 2018-19
MMRA subscriptions for 2018-19 can now be paid online through MyEasyPay.
Membership is open to all Households(including Apartments and residential shops) in the Mount Merrion Estate as defined by the MMRA Rules and Constitution. Membership allows residents to influence the direction of the association, and ultimately positively benefit our area.
Subscription is €20 per annum per household or €10 for OAP households.
Your support, by means of annual subscription, provides the funding for the Mount Merrion Residents Association to operate. If you are not already a member, please consider joining.
We are always seeking new association members and candidates for our Executive Committee. If you would like to get involved, please email us at mmra@mountmerrion.ie
Taking in charge of Slip Road on The Rise Mount Merrion – DLRCC Citizen Space
DLR CC has given notice of its intention to consider the making of a declaration that the slip road on The Rise be taken in charge and be declared as a public road (which includes footpaths).
The Slip road runs parallel to The Rise Mount Merrion starting at the junction of Chestnut Road and continues for 88.2M to its junction with The Close. The latest date for receipt of objections or representations is 4.00 p.m. on Friday, 21st December 2018.
read morePublic Meeting: DLR Joint Policing Committee Tues 20th November 7pm Talbot Hotel
A Public meeting of the Joint Policing Committee will take place on Tuesday 20th November, 7pm in the Talbot Hotel Stillorgan. This public meeting happens once year and is an opportunity for the public to raise issues and address questions on relevant matters to senior members of An Garda Siochána and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. All welcome.
read moreWWI, The RMS Leinster and Mount Merrion
Despite a population of less than 20, Mount Merrion lost a life to The Somme.
read moreMount Merrion Monthly Clean-up Tuesday November 6th 10.30am
November’s monthly clean up will take place this . Please join Clare Kelly and the team to pick up rubbish in the suggested area for about an hour, and then adjourn for a complementary coffee in Michael’s on Deerpark Road. MMRA High visibility jackets, pickers and blue bags will be available. Meet at Mount Merrion Community Centre at 10.30am. If you are free, do come... read more
Two Mount Merrion sites brought together for sale at €32m
Irish Times article October 31, 2018... read moreLiving With Loss Talk Thursday November 1st
A free public information evening about Bereavement with guest speaker Niamh Fitzpatrick (Psychologist, sister of Capt. Dara Fitzpatrick). The Alex Hotel, 40—41 Fenian Street, Dublin 2, 5.30pm-8pm.
read moreGarda Alert: Fraud over Phone
Fraud over the phone, please do not give your bank details to any person or organisation due to recent offences in the area. Blackrock Community Garda. read moreTalk Wednesday 17th October 7pm-9pm: A Framework of hope for Dementia in Ireland
Professor Lawlor is Chair, Irish Dementia Awareness Campaign Co-Director, Global Brain Health Institute Chair, Dementia and Neurodegeneration Network Ireland. The talk will focus on the concept and importance of hope and how we can create a framework of hope for dementia in Ireland. Venue: Sion Hill Theatre, Cross Avenue, Blackrock. The event is free of charge.
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Mount Merrion is a suburban estate in South County Dublin developed on lands once the seat of the Viscounts Fitwilliam. Centred around the Deerpark, a public park first landscaped by the 5th Viscount, and the remains of the house he built there in 1711, Mount Merrion today is generally considered to be bounded to the North by The UCD campus at Belfield, to the East by the N11 and Booterstown and Blackrock, to the South by Stillorgan and Kilmacud, and to the West by Goatstown and Clonskeagh. *Lower Kilmacud Road residents on the right-hand-side from Stillorgan Shoping Centre, odd numbers 101 to 167, including 111a, are within Mount Merrion demense. The Mount Merrion Residents Association, founded in 1935, is the oldest residents’ association in continuous existence in Ireland. It represents the following roads:
- Callary Road
- Cedarmount Road
- Cherry Garth
- Chestnut Road
- Clonmore Road
- The Close
- Cypress Road
- Deerpark Road
- Fosters Avenue
- The Fosters
- Glenabbey Road
- Greenfield Road
- Greygates
- Iris Grove
- Lower Kilmacud Road (partial)
- Mather Road North
- Mather Road South
- Mount Anville Road
- North Avenue
- Owenstown Park
- Redesdale Crescent
- Redesdale Road
- The Rise
- Roebuck Ave
- St Thomas Road
- St Thomas Mead
- South Avenue
- Sycamore Road
- Sycamore Cresent
- Sycamore Avenue
- Thornhill Road
- Trees Avenue
- Trees Road Lower
- Trees Road Upper
- Wilson Crescent
- Wilson Road