Century-old Waterford grain store to be razed to allow €300m development

Waterford City and County Council is to demolish, within weeks, a derelict 113-year-old grain store on a quayside site earmarked for a €300m development project.

It was one of only two such structures built in Ireland, alongside a surviving counterpart in Belfast, and was deemed “an important structure” by the Natural Inventory of Architectural Heritage.

However, the local authority has voted unanimously to demolish the nine-storey disused building, the last remaining structure on the North Quay.