Bath Road, Balbriggan

Area

16,234 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres)

Buildings

47 buildings touch it, 1,297 m² on the ground

Zoning

G4 OS - Open Space (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
R2 RS - Residential (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
S3 CI - Community Infrastructure (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective

Townland

Tankardstown

Planning applications on this parcel

• 15 May 2026Request additional information

  To the ground floor (a) change of use from residential to Dental Surge

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0393E

• 17 May 2021Refuse permission

  A new dormer-style two-bedroom detached dwellinghouse to the rear of e

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0276

• 12 Apr 2017Grant permission for retention

  Change of use from part residential to sessional pre-school facility t

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F17A/0206

• 20 Dec 2012Grant permission

  New two-bedroom townhouse with vehicular access to existing roadway an

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0062

• 20 Dec 2012Grant permission

  New two-bedroomed townhouse with vehicular access to existing roadway

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0061

• 12 Apr 2012Grant permission

  The development will consist of a change of use of part of existing re

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0108

• 5 May 2011Grant permission

  The development will consist of change of use from part residential to

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0171

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• DU002-024 Brickworks
  Description

  Brick Yard and Brick Field belonging to the Cumiskey family that operated out of a business premises in Drogheda Street in Balbriggan is depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map in fields 100m to the SW of Tankardstown Martello Tower (DU002-004----). Rectangular-shaped buildings annotated ‘Brick Works’ and circular-shaped Kilns depicted in the ‘Brick Yard’ on the 1863 OSi 25-inch map, with Clay Pit depicted in the Brick Field bisected by the Dublin-Belfast railway line.  Not indicated on the last edition of the OS 6-inch map.  Rectangular-shaped field (approx. dims. 116m NE-SW x 70m N-S) annotated ‘Brick yard’ on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map with a similar sized ‘Brick Field’ containing a small building and clay pit in the adjoining field to the S.  According to the Archaeological Impact Assessment Report; ‘The smallest brick fields established during the period c. 1750–1830 would generally cover a few acres, with the clay normally dug out in the first four months of the year to allow it to weather before brick production took place around April to September (Rynne 2015). From the 17th to the early 20th century bricks were generally fired in a clamp kiln, a rectangular arrangement consisting of alternate courses of bricks, however, by the early 1850s, more permanent kiln structures were beginning to be built including intermittent, up-draught beehive kilns that are circular in plan, as well as Hoffman kilns, in which drying and firing was a continuous process; the early forms of the latter kiln were also circular in plan’ (ibid., 169–170). The site of the brickworks either side of the railway line now forms part of Bremore Regional Park.  In early 2020, a total of 29.4 hectares of high-resolution magnetic gradiometer survey (Licence no. 20R0032) was completed within the park boundary, examining ten locations suitable for geophysical investigation (Cleary et. al. 2021). Nearly all the 19th-century over-bridges on the Dublin and Belfast line had elliptical arches of either brick or cut limestone, many of which were later removed and replaced with concrete ones (Rynne 2015, 369–70). The site for the Balbriggan brick works was most likely chosen for its proximity to the harbour, as this would have facilitated transporting the bulky cargo, and it is possible that the brick field owner(s) also possessed a small fleet of lighters and mud boats (ibid., 172). With the opening of the railway in 1844 it is likely that transport moved to freight trains. The early 1900s photo from the Valentine Collection illustrates what looks like the chimney of a Hoffman kiln; one such example at Castle Espie, Co. Down, dated to 1866, comprised a chimney 172 ft [52.4m] high with 24 compartments, each capable of containing 100 tons of limestone and with the capacity to manufacture 600 tons of lime per week (O’Sullivan & Downey 2005, 22). Hoffman kilns were used for both lime-burning and brick production during this period but given the kilns location it may have related to the brick works in this area (Cleary et. al. 2021, 14-15). Griffith’s Valuation of 1847-65 recorded that the land around the Martello tower was leased to Chas. & Thos. Comiskey for use as a brick-yard (Cleary et. al. 2021, 21). Recent excavations of post-medieval brick-production sites in Counties Clare and Limerick date from no earlier than the 18th century and uncovered brick-making clamps represented by rows (benches) of unmortared brick with deposits of black, burnt peat between them, brick-holes (clay quarries) and brick yards (Hull 2005). These demonstrate the type of sub-surface remains that may be uncovered within the Bremore Regional Park (Cleary et. al. 2021, 35).  Thom's Irish Almanac for 1903 listed William Cumiskey as a brick and tile manufacturer operating out of a premises on Drogheda Street, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin (Anon. 1903, 1630).    Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

• KK003-046 Enclosure
  Description

  On the W edge of a small island (dims. c. 230m N-S; c. 85m E-W) in marshy terrain, c. 50m E of the River Goul, in pasture. A roughly D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 30m N-S and E-W) identified as an earthwork on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 8 March 2010) by Jean-Charles Caillère. The roughly straight W-side (L c. 27m) is defined by the edge of the island, elsewhere the enclosure appears to be defined by a bank and outer fosse. See attached photograph: KK003-046----_01 Image ©2019 Maxar Technologies: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (8 March 2010) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 January 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

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