Cluain Lara
Cluain Lara, at Old Railpark just outside Maynooth, Co. Kildare, is named in the Government's IPAS County Kildare 2025 inspection collection, which includes a Q2 2025 inspection report for the site. According to KFM Radio, citing the Department of Integration, the facility is used to accommodate people seeking international protection and has 11 rooms catering for up to four people each, for a total capacity of up to 44; reporting indicated the rooms were brought into use in January 2023 and that residents were single men. Three meals per day are provided on site.
Capacity
44
people (reported)
Per night
€84
per person (benchmark)
Annual
€1.3m
estimated
Background
The site is at Old Railpark, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. Irish international protection accommodation is provided through IPAS (the International Protection Accommodation Service), under the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. For how the system works and what it costs, open the cost panel on the interactive map with Ireland selected.
Cost
Irish IPAS accommodation is funded by the State. At a blended benchmark of about €84 per person per night (the 2024 whole-system average reported by RTÉ), the 44 people reported here imply roughly €1.3m per year. This is an order-of-magnitude figure for context only, not a site-specific invoice — over 90% of IPAS accommodation is commercially provided and emergency rates run far above State-owned centres.
Sources
gov.ie (IPAS, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth) · 2025. View source
Coordinates geocoded from the published address/town via OpenStreetMap; status reflects the cited reporting and may have changed since.