Glencairn House

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Glencairn House is the official residence of the British Ambassador to the Ireland. Glencairn has been the official residence of successive British Ambassadors to the Republic of Ireland since the 1950s.

The house is situated on the Murphystown Road in Leopardstown in South County Dublin, adjacent to exit 14 of the M50 motorway.

The house and its surrounding estate was sold by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in April 1999 for GBP£24 million without having purchased an alternative residence. In 2000 an alternative site was purchased at nearby Marlay Grange.

The Ambassador continued to live at Glencairn while the Marlay Grange site was refurbished. A subsequent cost appraisal showed that it would in fact be more cost effective to repurchase Glencairn than to continue with plans to refurbish Marlay Grange.^{[citation needed]}