Renamed Hampton House, the former Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation has been recently redeveloped as a large residential complex and nursing home, whose refined residences are attracting wealthy north Dubliners. Surrounded by a three-metre-high wall, the ecclesiastical-themed residential scheme off Drumcondra's Grace Park Road enjoys now up-lit church buildings as its centrepiece.
The Carmelite order took up residence in the Monastery of the Incarnation in 1858, just a few years after the Famine, and used to run a boarding school to help finance the poor school later on closed after an outbreak of scarlet fever. By 2010, the number of nuns at Hampton had dropped to five, so the monastery was bound to closure. Having lived their lives of prayer in silence and community for the past 175 years, the Carmelite sisters responded to the combination of market forces and their order’s own financial needs with the off-market sale of their convent in the village.
One of the sale conditions of the site was the restoration of the chapel designed by the architect Edward Welby Pugin, author of over 100 Catholic churches across Ireland and the UK. Being a "listed building”, Hampton Church could not be knocked down, but was deconsecrated and deprived of all its religious objects before being refurbished and taking centre stage of the site redevelopment
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