Coke Lane, Smithfield

Area

148 m²

Buildings

1 building touches it, 509 m² on the ground

Zoning

M2 Z5: City Centre (Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 7 recorded monuments.

• DU018-020312 Bridge
  Description

  This bridge which spans the River Liffey was built in 1776 and occupies thesite of Arran Bridge, built in 1683 (Dillon Cosgrave 1977, 5 (2nd ed. ); Maher 1932, 12; Tutty 1981, 25-26).

• DU018-020313 School
  Description

  The site isidentified as the site of the medieval school of St Thomas Aquinas. Excavations in 1998 on thenorthern portion of the site extending from Bridgefoot Street to Island Street contained archaeological soils. In places there is c. 2.5m of archaeological deposits. (O'Rourke 2000, 45-46).

• DU018-020314 Bridge
  Description

  The Dublin City Development Plan (1991, No. 15) shows the 'site of Bridge'at Bonham Street N (Bradley & King 1987, 3).

• DU018-020318 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  De Courcy describes a former dwelling W of Fr. Matthew's Bridge which was associated with the Ussher family in the Sixteenth century (1996, 401-402). This backed onto the river Liffey. Perrot's survey of 1585 provide some dimensions (L 32.5m, wall T.1.25m, wall H 5.9m). This apparently occupied the site of a house mentioned in 1284 when it was granted to Robert de Notyngham and later restored in 1317 by John de Grauntsete(op cit 402). No visible trace

• DU018-020530 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Dublin Environmental Inventory. Dept. of Architecture, UCD. lists house No. 12. Date uncertain.

• DU018-020531 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Dublin Environmental Inventory, Dept. of Architecture, UCD, lists House No. 15. Date uncertain.

• DU018-556 House - 17th/18th century
  Description

  Arran Quay Watch House    Watch House is depicted on the northern side of of the River Liffey at the west end of Arran Quay, at the junction with Bridewell Bridge (DU018-020312-) and Queen Street.  Annotated ‘W.H’ on Rocque’s 1756 map of Dublin. On this map a building is depicted standing on the north side of the River Liffey, immediately to the east of Bridewell bridge (now Mellow’s Bridge). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of Compilation: 13 November 2025

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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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