Land parcel 2447939

Area

85 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 175 m².

Zoning

R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) 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 3 recorded monuments.

• DU014-020001 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  According to Adams (1881, 492) there was an extensive brick mansion here, the property of Sir James Ware (1594-1666), noted scholar, antiquarian and Auditor-General of Ireland. The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes Ware's Meakstown holdings in some detail: 'There is upon ye premises a dwelling house of Brick with other office houses therto belonging-as a barne & a stable. Also an orchard and Garden Plott Valu'd by ye Jury at 300 li'. Together with 140 acres of land, the Meakstown house constituted the most valuable of Ware's Dublin properties, granted to him in 1638 (Simington 1945, 202). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 22 January 2015

• DU014-020002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The site is to the rear of a dilapidated farmyard on a T junction. This location is based on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (1838), which places the legend 'Site of Castle' directly to the south of the roadside farm buildings still visible today, almost exactly in the centre of the present farmyard. This identification is consistent with the OS Name Book for Santry parish, which states: 'the offices and out-houses stand on the site of Castle which formerly fronted the road'. Not visible at ground level. Monitoring (Licence no. 05E0044) was undertaken at the reputed location of Meakstown Castle in advance of development. It followed from two test excavation untaken at the site in 1999 (Licence no. 99E0351/Ext.). No definitive remains of Meakstown Castle were found in either assessment. The monitoring also failed to uncover similar definite archaeological remains relating to the castle. The site of the castle was occupied by farm buildings covering an area of c. 1 acre. Boulder clay was identified under the foundations and it was clear that the ground level was significantly reduced when these sheds were built in the middle of the 20th century. The absence of any buildings on the site on John Rocque’s map of 1760 suggests that the castle site may be located elsewhere. The most likely candidate is the site of Meakstown House (DU014-020001-), located on the northern side of St Margaret's Road immediately to the north of the supposed site of the castle (O’Donovan Excavations.ie 2006:657). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 22 January 2015

• DU014-113 Habitation site
  Description

  Excavation (Licence no. 05E044EXT) undertaken at the site in advance of a residential development indicated that it had been used for domestic occupation and agricultural activity during the medieval period. Ditches, drains and cobbling were uncovered. There was only limited evidence for medieval structural remains including an L-shaped ditch representing the foundation remains of a square or rectangular structure. It is likely that the main dwelling was located somewhere outside the area of excavation. A large assemblage (1,003 sherds) of medieval pottery was recovered, all of which was derived from vessels that had been produced in the Dublin and/or Leinster area. There were no examples of imported wares. Of note among the metal finds were a possible arrowhead, a French jetton and two medieval buckles. The features and finds uncovered indicate the site was occupied during the late 12th – 15th centuries (McQuade 2007). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015

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 rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3176 (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.