Land parcel 2848652

Area

4,825 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres)

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,168 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

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 2 recorded monuments.

• DU018-546 Barracks
  Description

  Aldborough House Barracks   A 19th-century barracks at Aldborough House was recorded in 2025 in the ‘Our Shared Built Military Heritage: The online mapping, inventorying and recording of the Army Barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921' a project that was funded by the North South Research Programme 2022-2024 and co-led by University College Dublin and The Open University' (Forbes and McGrath 2025).  The barracks was described in the inventory of the ‘Army Barracks of Ireland - Our Shared Military Heritage, 1690-1921’ as follows; ‘Aldborough House is a large Palladian mansion originally constructed in or around 1798 as a private residence and converted into a temporary barracks c.1812. It was intermittently used as a school and then as a permanent barracks from the 1840s. An infantry barracks, it had a capacity for seven officers, 276 infantrymen and four horses in 1867. It remained occupied by the army until 1895. There is a reference to ongoing negotiations to allow the police to occupy the barracks in 1896; however, there is no evidence that this occurred. By 1900 it was being used as a depot for the post office. In 1922, Aldborough House was occupied by the National Army during the Irish Civil War and used as a convalescence home for wounded soldiers. It remained a State property under the aegis of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs until it was sold into private ownership in 1999. No significant development has occurred on the site since then, except for emergency works after vandalism damaged the building. Currently abandoned but still extant, the gardens at the rear of the property have been redeveloped into local authority housing'.   Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on description taken from inventory of the ‘Army Barracks of Ireland - Our Shared Military Heritage, 1690-1921   Date of Compilation: 11 November 2025

• TS066-221 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture. A possible barrow (diam. c. 17m) identified as an earthwork on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 18 November 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is another possible barrow (TS066-220----) c. 110m to the SW. See attached photograph: TS066-221----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (18 November 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 January 2020

Architectural heritage

• Aldborough House, house, 1790–1800 · National interest
  Description

  Corner-sited detached seven-bay three-storey mansion over raised basement, built 1793-9 and dated 1796, facing east, to designs of Richard Johnson. Now unoccupied and in derelict state. Built on rectangular plan with pedimented three-bay central breakfront and Doric porch, with pair of single-storey advanced quadrant wings to forecourt. Hipped slate roofs on quadrangular plan with central lantern. Roof hidden behind deep moulded granite cornice with modillions spanning all elevations. Low granite parapet wall to central breakfront behind modillioned pediment having coade stone armorial crest to tympanum. Cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Coursed granite ashlar walls to front elevation with granite frieze below cornice having incised lettering to each plane, reading 'MDCCXCVI' to breakfront, indecipherable to either side. Granite platband forming continuous sill course to first floor (spanning all elevations) over rusticated granite walls to ground floor, with granite plinth course (spanning all elevations) over squared and coursed roughly-hewn calp limestone basement walls. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond to all other elevations with full-height bows to south side and rear elevations and deep moulded granite parapet cornice. Square-headed window openings with moulded granite architrave surrounds, granite sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows with horns. Pedimented windows to first floor of breakfront, granite frieze and cornice to first floor windows to either side and voussoired granite heads to ground floor with no sills. Gauged brick heads to window openings on all other elevations with wrought-iron grilles to basement windows and some ground floor windows. Prostyle tetrastyle Portland limestone Doric portico to breakfront with incised gilt lettering to architrave stating 'OTIUM CUM DIGNITATE' (LEISURE WITH DIGNITY), with dentillated cornice over. Three voussoired round-arched openings having double-leaf timber panelled doors to centre with embellished lintel frieze, and boarded-up windows. Door opens onto granite-paved platform with wrought-iron bootscraper and six granite steps with recent steel rails. Three-bay advanced quadrant wings to either side, that to south having four engaged Portland limestone Doric columns on raised granite plinth with blind arches and supporting plain frieze and dentillated cornice. North quadrant wing (currently obscured) as per south wing without engaged columns. Set back from street within its own grounds having bitmac forecourt enclosed to street by replacement low red brick wall and iron railings with pair of rusticated granite piers with profiled capstones and pair of iron gates, c.1950. Single-storey limestone building to northeast c.1860, formerly barrack building (50010084). Decorative pavilion block terminates south quadrant (50010083).

• Aldborough House, building misc, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey rendered former theatre pavilion, built c.1800, as pavilion terminating south quadrant wing to Aldborough House (50010082). Currently empty. Matching pavilion to north now demolished. Symmetrical three-bay decorative north elevation with bowed elevation to east, extending by three bays to south with three-sided canted elevation and lean-to to west. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to south and set behind granite parapet wall to north elevation. Central balustraded pedestal supporting coade stone sphinx and granite cornice spanning east bow. Plastered walls with rusticated granite quoins and coursed granite plinth course to front, north, elevation. Three decorative coade stone panels over each bay with decorative swags and festoons. Central round-headed opening with granite sill, now boarded up. Square-headed blind bays to either side with granite architrave surrounds and entablatures. Round-headed window openings with granite sills to remainder, largely boarded up with some spoked timber sashes visible. Blind round-headed niches to east bow and square-headed door opening now blocked up. Principal access via interior of house. Located in grounds of Aldborough House, opening onto tarmac surfaced area to forecourt. Enclosed to rear (Killarney Street) by rubble stone wall.

• Aldborough House, building misc, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey stone former barracks building, built c.1850, within forecourt of Aldborough House (50010082) fronting onto street. Currently not in use. Hipped slate roof with central profiled limestone ashlar chimneystack, and cast-iron rainwater gutters on corbelled eaves course and cast-iron down pipes. Coursed squared and snecked calp limestone walls with granite ashlar plinth course. Square-headed window openings with voussoired limestone heads, granite sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front, blind to rear. Arcaded south side elevation to entrance gates of Aldborough House with continuous impost course, blocked up to two bays, and replacement door to easternmost bay. Segmental-headed opening to west elevation with impost course continued from south elevation opening into recessed entrance porch having blocked up entrance. Former barracks building forms part of boundary walls of Aldborough House.

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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3233 (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.