Notice of the 88th Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting of the Mount Merrion Residents Association will be held in Mount Merrion Community Centre in the Fitzwilliam Room on Tuesday 16th April 2024 at 8pm. Only fully paid up members of MMRA are invited to attend this meeting in order to review the affairs of the association. Doors open at 7.30pm to register for entry to the Fitzwilliam Room.
Subscriptions for 2024 may be paid on the night at the door to the official collector/ subscription coordinator.
It is important that members attend the AGM — members decide the policies to be pursued over the following 12 month period.
Officers, current members of the Executive Committee completing two years service and members co-opted to the Committee during 2023/4 to fill vacancies, may be re-elected. Also, fully paid up members, duly proposed and seconded, may apply for vacancies on the Exec Committee.
Members will have an opportunity to voice any opinions or concerns and to have your say as to the path the MMRA will take in the future.
I look forward to being with you all on the 16th April 2024.
Kate Canning
President MMRA.
The draft agenda for the annual general meeting can be read here.
St Thomas’ Church Fete
St Thomas’ Church are holding a Spring Fete next Saturday, 27th April. All are welcome.
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Buck Whaley by David Ryan
The May meeting and talk of the Mount Merrion Historical Society will take place in the Community Centre at 8.00pm on Thursday 2nd May, 2024. Non members are welcome.
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Mount Merrion Historical Society Annual Outing
The Annual Outing of the MMHS will take place on Saturday 18 May to Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, and Russborough House.
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Have Your Say!
What do we mean by the “character of Mount Merrion”? Let’s start a discussion.
read more88th Annual General Meeting – Draft Agenda
Here is the draft agenda for the MMRA AGM to be held on Tuesday 16th April 2024 at 8pm in the Community Centre.
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Vintage Tea Party
Come and join us for our Vintage Tea Party in aid of the Friendship Club Mount Merrion on Sunday 28th April 2024 at 2pm in the Community Centre.
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Fundraising Sale of Art by the late Marie O’Hanlon
Marie O’Hanlon, of Deerpark Road, passed away on Christmas Day. There will be a sale of her artwork in aid of Purple House (cancer support) in the Community Centre next Sunday (7 April).
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Dublin Anatomy 1600-1900 – Presented by Conal Hooper
The April meeting of the Mount Merrion Historical Society will take place in the Community Centre at 8.00pm on Thursday 4th April, 2024. Non members are welcome.
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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.
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
- 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
At its peak, Mount Merrion rises to 82m (269ft) above sea level.