Land parcel 1876192

Area

257 m²

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 164 m².

Zoning

M2 Z5: City Centre (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 9 Jan 2019Grant retention permissio

  RETENTION: Retention planning permission is sought for the division of existing ground-floor retail unit into 2 no. retail units with new entrance door.

  Retention permission · Dublin City Council, 2035/19

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• DU018-020036 Gateway
  Description

  The precise location of St. Kevin's Gate has not been identified. Clarke (2002, 21, E14) suggested that the gate may have been located on Wexford Street at the junction with Protestant row. The present location has been identified based on the 1326-7 and 1603 description of the site location. The gate may have been somewhere within the vicinity of this area marked on the OSi map. Referred to in historical documents as St. Kevin's Gate, it was situated in Wexford Street which was still known in the 19th century as St. Kevin's Port (McCready 1892, 42). The Urban Survey of Dublin (Bradley and King 1987, 1, 57) recorded that 'its precise position in the street, however, is unknown'. The Friends of Medieval Dublin marked the site of St Kevin's Gate to the E of St Kevin's Church at the junction between Wexford Street and Protestant Row (FMD map 1978, B17; Clarke 2002, 21, E14). According to Clarke (2002, 21) St Kevin's Gate was first mentioned c. 1213 in Archbishop Alen's Register (McNeill 1950, 41). At the Common Pleas held at Dublin in 1326-7 before Thomas Fitz John, earl of Kildare, justiciary of Ireland, an Inquisition into the extent of the boundaries of Dublin City recorded that; 'the pasture which extends as far as St. Kevin's gate and so by the way as far as Kilmerecaregan [area around Leeson Street] and by the boundary of the land of Dovenachbrok [Donnybrook] as far as Dodir [Dodder]. And from the gate of St. Kevins church (DU018-020078-), by the way towards the north, so far as the stone cross [Butter Cross DU018-020124-] where the old market was formerly, towards the west. Thence by the lane near the church of the Holy Sepulchre [DU018-020118-], going towards the north so far as an old lane, closed up, near the common of the vicars of St Patrick's church (DU018-020113-) extending as far as the street of that church' (CARD 1, 156-7). In 1603 the boundaries of Dublin City were described as from; 'the high way aforesaid [Dublin-Donnybrook Highway] at a shard uppon the west corner of the said Kilmakeregan [area between St. Stephen's Green and Donnybrook/possibly the area around Leeson Street], and rode alongest that high way to St. Stephin's green, and tooke the sowth syde of the green, to St Kevin's Gate, and torned in the lane nor[th]ward, tyll they came to the east end of the Butter lane [Great Boater Lane now Bishop Street], which was broken, and they entred therat; and in that lane lyeth an ould cross of stone' (CARD 1, 193). This description could place it at the top of Wexford Street at the cross-roads with Redmond's Hill. No gateway is shown at this location on Speed's 1610 Map of Dublin or on Rocque's 1756 Map of Dublin. The Down Survey map of Newcastle barony c. 1655 shows 'Kevvensport' standing on the SE corner of the outer defences of Dublin City with St Stephens Green to the E (Hib. Reg.). The present Kevin Street Lower was previously known as 'Kevin's Port' (Lennon 2008, 16). It is possible that there may have been two gates known as 'St Kevin's Gate' for the Dublin City Assembly Roll of 1465 recorded that the city granted the prior and convent of the Carmelite's (DU018-020049-) of Dublin, the laneway/street that went from the church of Saint Stephen's (DU018-020593-) to the church of Saint Kevin's (DU018-020078-) with the right to build a gateway at both ends of the lane (CARD 1, 321). See attached Friends of Medieval Dublin 1978 map showing possible site of a town gate (E14), referred to as St. Kevin's Gate (Clarke 2002) and Down Survey Map of Newcastle Barony, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 November 2022

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).

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 gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3207 (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.