Land parcel 2588560

Area

585 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,455 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

• 12 Mar 2025Grant permission

  Amendments to the previously granted planning permission (Ref: 2894/20) for the conversion of the 1st, 2nd & 3rd floors from vacant office to residential use:The amendments include the construction of a three storey extension at first floor level & a single storey extension at third floor level to accommodate 6 one-bedroom apartments & 3 two-bedroom apartments at the 1st, 2nd & 3rd floor levels (9 units in total) with internal alterations and all associated site works.

  Permission, 9 homes · Dublin City Council, WEB1515/25

• 5 Mar 2025Application declared inva

  The development will consist of Amendments to the previously granted planning permission (Ref: 2894/20) for the conversion of the 1st, 2nd & 3rd floors from vacant office to residential use: The amendments include the construction of a three storey extension at first floor level & a single storey extension at third floor level to accommodate 6 one-bedroom apartments & 3 two-bedroom apartments at the 1st, 2nd & 3rd floor levels (9 units in total) with internal alterations and all associated site works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1446/25

• 16 Mar 2022Refuse permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Provision of Off Licence (10sqm) subsidiary to the main retail use.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3541/22

• 17 Feb 2022Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Provision of Off Licence (10sqm) subsidiary to the main retail use.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1149/22

• 22 Jun 2020Grant permission

  Planning permission for conversion of 1st, 2nd & 3rd floors from office space to residential consisting of 2 no. 2-bed apartments at first floor level, 2 no. 2-bed apartments at second floor level and 1 no. 1 bed apartment at third floor level. (5 apartments in total) all accessed from 34 Lower Abbey Street.

  Permission, 5 homes · Dublin City Council, 2894/20

• 31 Oct 2019Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of: (1) Change of use of the upper floors within no. 8 O'Connell Street Lower from residential along with change of use of the existing commercial floorspace within no. 3 Harbour Court to provide for a boutique hotel consisting of an overall total of 23 number en-suite bedrooms on first, second, third and fourth floor of No. 8 O'Connell Street and to the ground, first, second and third floor of No. 3 Harbour Court. (2) Associated internal reconfiguration works to provide for the boutique hotel to include provision of a reception area, wc, kitchen, bicycle/storage area at the ground floor of no. 3 Harbour Court, associated signage to the exterior no. 3 Harbour Court, change of finishes externally to existing link corridor between no. 8 O'Connell Street Lower & No. 3 Harbour Court, upgrading of existing internal lift within no. 8 O'Connell Street Lower and alterations to roof finishes and replacement of windows to No. 3 Harbour Court, connection to existing site services and all associated and ancillary works. (3) The development will also include for provision of 1 no. 1 bed apartment at second floor level within no. 8 O'Connell Street Lower.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4329/19

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

• Iarnród Éireann Travel Centre, museum/gallery, 1820–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey commercial building, built c.1825, destroyed in 1916 with front façade retained and largely rebuilt c.1920. Shopfront to ground floor inserted c.1950. Flat roof hidden behind parapet wall with chimneystacks to both party walls. Coursed squared granite ashlar walls with deep moulded granite cornice to parapet. Square-headed window openings with granite sills, moulded architrave surrounds and replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Lugged architrave surrounds to first floor windows with pulvinated frieze and granite pediments resting on granite blocking course and full-span granite cornice to ground floor. Shopfront comprising polished granite surround with pair of chrome-framed display windows and glazed entrance to west.

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_3206 (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.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

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.