Land parcel 1720574

Area

33,197 m² (3.32 ha, 8.2 acres)

Buildings

9 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 3,640 m².

Zoning

S5 Z15: Community and Social Infrastructure (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
G5 Z9: Amenity/Open Space Lands/Green Network (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 26 May 2026Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE We, The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland intend to apply for permission for development at the site of, and lands north of, the Casino Marino, a Protected Structure (RPS Ref. 4858) and National Monument (No. 302, RMP no. DU018-144), Casino Park, Malahide Road, D03HH70. The development will consist of the construction of a single-storey Visitor Centre with a floor area of 454sqm on the site of the partially built medico-legal building located to the north of the Casino Marino. The Visitor Centre will accommodate exhibition space, public café, office and associated sanitary, welfare and storage facilities. Restoration of landscape setting of the Casino Marino, to include removal of existing twentieth century ditch and wall, removal of temporary portacabin and replacement of the existing tarmacadam access road and vehicular parking area with a reinforced green maintenance/emergency access route to the Casino. Conservation and restoration of existing sections of late 18th Century (altered) stone and brick boundary walls to northern site perimeter. Relocation of public entrance, car and bus parking area from Casino Park; provision of 3no. new car parking spaces, pedestrian and vehicular maintenance/emergency access routes to the Visitor Centre; provision of ancillary single-storey standalone plant/store room and substation (floor area of 50sqm) north of the Visitor Centre; bin storage, 46no. bicycle parking spaces, hard and soft landscaping, lighting, signage, drainage and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 5141/26

• 1 Feb 2022Grant permission

  Planning permission is sought for free standing electronic illuminated scoreboard with associated advertising sign to be located at the south-east corner of the juvenile pitch and will have an overall dimension of 3.25m wide by 2.25m high and to be erected to a maximum height of 4m above pitch ground level.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3192/22

• 29 Nov 2021Application declared inva

  Permission sought for free standing electronic illuminated scoreboard with associated advertising sign to be located at the south-east corner of the juvenile pitch and will have an overall dimension of 3.25m wide by 2.25m high, and to be erected to a maximum height of 4m above pitch ground level.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3961/21

• 21 Apr 2021Grant permission

  Proposed single-storey detached prefabricated building located to the west of the clubhouse to be used for after school age childcare facility with perimeter fencing, service connections, and associated site development works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2630/21

• 14 Jan 2021Grant retention permissio

  Retention planning permission for the development will consist of the addition of 8 no. car parking spaces to the south of the site to allow for additional visitor parking provision.

  Retention permission · Dublin City Council, 2041/21

• 11 Jun 2020Application declared inva

  Ard Scoil Ris Marino Griffith Avenue Dublin 9 is applying for planning permission to erect a new Hurling wall 28.5 metres wide by 5 metres high and all associated site works adjacent to the playground and playing pitch.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1347/20

• 30 Apr 2020Grant retention permissio

  RETENTION of an existing 18.5 metre high telecommunications support structure carrying telecommunications equipment and floodlights, together with existing equipment container and associated equipment within a fenced compound as previously granted under local authority reference 3067/09. The development will continue to form part of meteor Mobile Communications Ltd existing and future telecommunications and broadband network.

  Retention permission · Dublin City Council, 2662/20

• 13 Aug 2019Grant permission and rete

  RETENTION: The development will consist of the addition of 3 no. car parking spaces to the south of the site. 2 no. car parking spaces relocated to the west with an addition of a further 3 no. car parking spaces and hard standing to west. An existing stair to the south, previously granted for recladding in fibre cement panels, will now be clad in render to match the existing.

  Retention permission · Dublin City Council, 3735/19

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

• O'Brien Institute, orphanage/children's home, school, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached eighteen-bay three-storey E-plan Gothic Revival former orphanage and school, built 1880-3 and dated 1882, having two-bay gabled entrance projection with open porch, and deeper two-bay projections to ends being front ends of wings having six bays to outer elevation of west wing and longer multiple-bay outer elevation to east wing with four bays at south end, full-height two-bay projection to middle and multiple-bay further pile to north end. Short multiple-bay single-storey link at mid-point of west wing connecting to largely detached chapel. Now in use as training centre and having various recent additions to rear and east sides. Pitched slate roofs with angled ridge tiles, iron cross finials to gables, replacement aluminium rainwater goods, red brick chimneystacks with limestone shoulders, corniced caps and clay pots, and having leaded lucarnes to main front slopes of roof. Red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, over plinth course with limestone coping, and having limestone bands at impost level and limestone stringcourses at sill levels. Pointed segmental-arch window openings to ground floor with sills integral to stringcourse, and partly recessed reveals; shouldered square-headed openings to upper floors, with chamfered reveals, chamfered sills to first floor, limestone lintels, pointed hood-mouldings to first floor with decorative brickwork and quatrefoil vents to tympanums, and having polychromatic arches above with brick and limestone voussoirs; top floor of end projections similar to first floor elsewhere, but have tympanums, each containing carved Portland stonework in form of foliate panels and central shield device within moulded roundel; all openings having two-over-two horizontal pane timber sliding sash windows. Entrance projection has lancet windows with chamfered brick reveals, limestone traceried frames with mullions and transoms and leaded trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoils to top of each window; cut stone stringcourse to impost level of lower lights; roundel with lettering 'The School of the Twin Sisters A.D. 1882' between windows. Pointed-arch principal doorway with chamfered brick reveals and timber battened double-leaf door with brass handles, flanked by pointed segmental-headed window openings with two-over-two pane windows, recessed within deep porch, latter having arcade of two pointed arches flanked by Gothic shaft piers and having hood-mouldings borne on cut stone impost course above decorative frieze; moulded panel to sill level; triangular barges with trefoil and other details and topped with fleur-de-lys finials; pedestal bearing statue of St. Joseph between gables and having sculpted hood integral to first floor sill level; approached by three granite steps with plinth walls and whole atop granite platform. Secondary entrances through lean-to porch at west having pointed-arch doorway with limestone surround, chamfered brick outer frame, limestone hood-moulding and having double-leaf timber battened door; further doorway in porch to chapel. Link block has pointed stained-glass windows with block-and-start limestone surrounds. Projection to east has hipped roof, pointed-arch top floor windows with fanlights over transoms, and slightly projecting chimneystacks. Building set at end of avenue from Malahide Road, behind grass margins and sports fields with training yards to northwest.

• O'Brien Institute, church/chapel, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached Gothic Revival former college chapel, built 1883, facing southeast and having six-bay nave, apse, three-stage square-plan bell-tower slightly projecting at south and with lower U-plan stairs tower slightly recessed from opposite end of front, connecting four-bay single-storey link to middle of east elevation connecting to former orphanage/school building, and former sacristy at north. Now in use as auditorium. Bell tower has octagonal-plan belfry stage with pointed segmental-headed openings and quatrefoil openings to alternate faces and octagonal-plan pyramidal roof with alternating red brick and limestone courses and surmounted by copper cross finial. Pitched slate roof with angled ridge tiles, leaded lucarnes, limestone cross finial to front gable of nave and wrought-iron cross finials to opposite gable of nave and to towers, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, to all except stair tower which is in stretcher bond, with limestone dressings, chamfered plinth course, band and moulded stringcourse at impost level, and stepped buttresses to front corners of nave and bell-tower. Window openings have limestone surrounds with block-and-start reveals and alternating limestone and brick voussoirs, chamfered sills, hood-mouldings with vegetal stops, generally pointed segmental heads, and generally having stained leaded lattice glazing to nave, link and stair tower. Long walls of nave have cusped lights, and front gable has rose window with moulded archivolt supported on shafts with vegetal capitals and quatrefoil stained-glass leaded lights set within square units of geometric tracery. Former sacristy has double square-headed window with chamfered limestone lintels and sills and two-over-two horizontal pane timber sliding sash windows and lateral brick chimneystack with limestone dressings. Metal louvers to window openings in bell-tower. Pointed-arch doorway to bell tower, with double-leaf timber battened door with three granite steps and limestone plinth walls, and pointed segmental-headed doorway to porch next to stair tower, with single-leaf timber battened door; otherwise having similar detailing to window openings. Interior has open arched timber roof trusses springing from sculpted limestone corbels, lavabo and otherwise modernized. Carpark to south, otherwise surrounded by grass margins.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3232 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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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.