What's the story with the big white house

Bussywussy

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

Dr Turk Turkelton

I believe they are constructing a motorcycle wall of death.

chewed

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

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

Thats where the new pharmacutical plant is going.

PauloMN

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

scudzilla

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

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

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

heldel00

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

BANES

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

NufcNavan

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

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

I believe they are constructing a motorcycle wall of death.

ha ha eat the peach!

PauloMN

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

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

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

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

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

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

andreac

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

Here's a better photo.

PauloMN

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

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

chewed

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

heldel00

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

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

chewed wrote: »

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

Yep it was

kc66

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

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 #

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

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

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.