An Taisce has called for Fingal County Council to move to protect a listed historic building on Dublin's northside, designed by the architect of the White House, after it was damaged by another fire.
Five units of the Dublin Fire Brigade brought the blaze at Belcamp College in Dublin 17 under control at around 8.35am.
The college, which was bought by developer Gerry Gannon in 2004 for €105m from the Oblate religious order and subsequently taken into NAMA, has been subjected to repeated arson attacks in the past.
This morning's fire damaged parts of the building that had not been damaged by earlier fires.
Belcamp College was designed by Kilkenny-born architect James Hoban, who also designed the White House in Washington, and it also featured an oval room that was gutted in a previous fire.
The house was built in the 1770s with the Oblate fathers founding the Catholic college as a boarding school there in 1893.
We've finished at the Belcamp College fire, 5 units attended the incident including our foam tender from Tara St pic.twitter.com/IMU4MkTmCt
— Dublin Fire Brigade (@DubFireBrigade) July 22, 2016
An Taisce said "failure to put the building to a new use and to protect the buildings from break-ins and vandalism has caused significant damage including the gutting of the late 19th Century school adjoining the 18th Century house, which was left inadequately secured during the years of the property crash".
It continued: "Fingal County Council must urgently intervene to establish the current ownership of the building and any continuing involvement of NAMA and to ensure that the roof is repaired and further damage averted".
