Land parcel 4983907

Area

8,536 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres)

Buildings

23 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 7,466 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

• 24 Jun 2024Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE The development will consist of works to and the change of use of an existing two-storey over partial basement building known as "The City Lodge Rear Annex" (a Protected Structure, RPS no. 3818), from healthcare to office use for medical administration associated with the HSE provision of public services and ancillary accommodation (approx. 404 sq m). The works include the demolition of existing boiler room to West elevation (approx. 3 sq m); infill of existing partial basement and associated external lightwell (approx.. 40 sq m); internal layout modifications including interlinks to "The City Lodge Front Building" previously refurbished under planning ref. 3282/13; replacement and reprofiling of existing roof; refurbishment of external facades; infill of existing door opening to West elevation; inclusion of new window and entrance door to South elevation; inclusion of new accessible ramp to South elevation; inclusion of louvre screen to existing plant room roof to East elevation; and all associated site development; landscaping and related site works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3896/24

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.

• DU018-141 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Pre-development testing in 2003 revaled a section of ditch of medieval date (Wth 5.5m, D 2.5m). Medieval pottery and a piece of dressed Dundry stone were uncovered (Hayden, A.2006, 140 in Excavations 2003).

Architectural heritage

• Meath Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached twelve-bay two-storey hospital building, built 1930-32, with flat-roofed later link connecting with L-plan three-bay two-storey block of similar form and detailing. Hipped slate roofs to both blocks, with two red brick chimneystacks to smaller building, slightly projecting to north elevation and one to south end of larger building, roof of latter block also having three copper roof vents with classical detailing to sides and having ball finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walling to front and side elevations, with rendered base and having soldier course of stretcher and header bricks at level of window and door heads and also forming lintels to same. Yellow brick walling to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and timber sliding sash windows throughout. Main block front and side elevations having six-over-six pane windows to first floor and six-over-nine pane to ground floor; rear has six-over-six pane to first floor, three-over-six pane to ground floor and some one-over-one pane to each floor and some four-over-eight pane to ground floor. Smaller block has three-over-six pane to first floor, flanking one-over-one pane window, and six-over-six pane to ground floor; three-over-three pane and three-over-six pane to north elevation. Square-headed doorways, those of larger block having granite surrounds; principal entrance having carved surround, moulded cornice and geometrically glazed overlight; both having timber panelled doors. Smaller block has doorway set into windbreak, with overlight and covered with copper hood. Buildings set at extreme west end of hospital complex.

• Meath Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay three-storey hospital over raised basement, built 1822, with central three-bay pedimented breakfront and three-bay side elevations. Extended to rear in 1865 and 1874, and having eight-bay four-storey block added c. 1880 at right angle to southeast; and various twentieth-century additions. Hipped skirt slate roof with seven red brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Eight-bay block has pitched slate roof and three chimneystacks. Pediment with carved granite cornice and coping, cut granite tympanum inscribed 'Meath Hospital', and inscribed 'County Dublin Infirmary' to frieze below. Roughly squared coursed calp limestone walls, having tooled limestone quoins and granite stringcourse over basement to both blocks. Principal entrance comprises tripartite granite doorcase with pilasters having scrolled console brackets supporting frieze and moulded cornice; replacement double-leaf glazed timber door and plain overlight and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash side-lights. Elliptical retaining arch above entrance with cut granite voussoirs and vermiculated keystone, and inset carved granite plaque inscribed 'Meath Hospital 1771'. Entrance approached by flight of eleven granite steps flanked by rendered balustrade and piers surmounted by lamp standards. Square-headed window openings with granite sills and brown brick surrounds. Early block having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to lower floors of flanking bays and replacement uPVC windows to top of floor of same bays and to breakfront. One-over-one pane windows to later block, with six-over-six pane to northern four bays of second floor of east elevation. Sections of rubble stone wall surrounding.

• Meath Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey T-plan hospital, built 1896, having three-bay central breakfront to front (north) elevation flanked by four-bay wings, with full-height veranda to inner three bays of rear elevation, and having lower two-storey block to rear with three-bay south and five-bay east and west elevations. Hipped slate roof to main block, with two ashlar granite chimneystacks having carved cornices. U-plan slate roof to rear block, with slighter hipped roof to valley, and three brown brick chimneystacks; cast-iron rainwater goods. Brown brick chimneystacks to return with carved limestone cornices and some clay pots. Ashlar granite to breakfront, middle bay slightly recessed over slightly advanced porch, having carved dentillated granite cornice over ground floor. Rusticated snecked limestone walls to flanking bays, with cut granite eaves and plinth courses, ashlar granite quoins and carved granite platband between floors. Rusticated limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins to rear. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and granite sills; yellow, brown or red brick surrounds and voussoirs to wings and rear block. Round-headed main doorway has carved granite surround and keystone, and replacement door, approached by recent steps and wheelchair lift concealed behind wall. Rear veranda comprises cast-iron columns to two levels with decorative wrought-ironwork to spandrels and parapets and to valence to ground floor.

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. 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.