The Old Distillery, Smithfield
Co. Dublin: the land, its zoning and planning, and every recorded sale since 2010
Parcel 2850162
- Area
- 944 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 4,791 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- M2 Z5: City Centre (Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective
- Townland
- —
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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).
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Land parcels
- 13
- median 469 m²
- Median price
- —
- 0 market sales since 2021, too few
- Zoning
- M2
- Z5: City Centre, 13 of 13 parcels
- Planning
- 1
- applications in the estate since 2010
Estimate About €451,000 for a second-hand apartment here at 2026 prices; one sale in two between €376,000 and €556,000. Refine the estimate
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, in the estate
13 parcels, from 119 m² to 1,232 m², median 469 m².
Outline of the estate: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Zoning
Development plan, in the estate
- M2Z5: City Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Development Plan 2022-2028, Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
13 parcels of this estate
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0. A parcel counts in the zone its centre falls in.
Planning applications
Sites in the estate, newest first
4 Nov 2025Grant permission
The proposed development will consist of the following: • The demolition of the existing warehouse building and associated outbuildings/structures at 1-6 Beresford Street (D07 T611); • The removal and part demolition of the existing boundary treatments. The existing stone wall to the north along Cuckoo Lane and existing decorative stone elements to the south east corner will be retained; • Reuse of the existing basement level for plant storage; • The construction of a residential-led mixed use development, ranging in height between 6-12 storeys. The development will comprise the following: • 191 no. residential units (57 no. 1 bed, 106 no. 2 bed and 28 no. 3 bed apartment units) with associated balconies on all street and internal courtyard elevations of the residential block; • 267 no. bedroom hotel; • Childcare facility (206 sqm); • 2 no. arts/cultural/community spaces (129 sqm and 450 sqm); • Retail unit (500 sqm); • Office/retail unit (844 sqm) (including 544 sqm mezzanine level) • A total of 9 no. EV car parking spaces, including 1 no. accessible car parking spaces, 4 no. motorcycle spaces, 353 no. sheltered bike spaces for residents, and 185 no. bike spaces at ground floor level throughout the development for short stay visitors, hotel use and staff use are proposed; • Relocation of the existing ESB substation along Beresford Street; • The provision of a new public plaza to the southeast corner of the site at the junction of Mary's Lane and George's Hill; • The provision of communal amenity space and a play area at ground floor level and communal roof terraces at level 6 and level 8; • Upgrades to the public realm surrounding the site, including improvements to the footpaths, roads and a new signalised junction at the junction between Mary's Lane and Beresford Street; • Removal of 4 no. on-street car parking spaces along Beresford Street and; • The development also includes landscaping, new boundary treatments, lighting, green/blue roofs, telecommunications infrastructure, site services and drainage connections, site clearance and all associated site works.
Permission, 189 homes · Dublin City Council, WEB5590/25
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Median price by year
Years with three market sales or more
| Year | Median price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | €115,000 | 3 |
Every recorded sale
5 sales, newest first
| Date | Address, as recorded | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2020 | APT 171, THE OLD DISTILLERY, SMITHFIELD | €330,000 |
| 2 Sept 2016 | 7 THE OLD DISTILLERY, SMITHFIELD, DUBLIN 7 | €241,500 |
| 17 Sept 2012 | 116 THE OLD DISTILLERY, SMITHFIELD | €135,000 |
| 28 Jun 2012 | APARTMENT 123, THE OLD DISTILLERY, SMITHFIELD | €96,000 |
| 24 Jan 2012 | APT. 158, THE OLD DISTILLERY, SMITHFIELD | €115,000 |
Source: Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority. Sales marked “not full market price” are left out of every median.