Land parcel 5089632

Area

8,686 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres)

Buildings

5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 5,479 m².

Zoning

S5 Z15: Community and Social Infrastructure (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
C2.1 Z6: Employment/Enterprise (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 30 Aug 2023Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE (RPS Ref. 370) : the development will consist of the provision of 1 no. internal illuminated sign c. 0.7m in height and c. 1.4m in length within the existing building at ground floor level, adjacent to the south-western elevation of Block 2, facing Baggot Street Lower.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4396/23

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

• Miesan Plaza, bank/financial institution, 1970–1980 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-block office complex over concealed basement on square-plan arrangement set around water feature, built 1972-78, as headquarters for Bank of Ireland. Renovated 2017-18. Now in commercial office and bank use. Block 1 to rear of site, seven storeys over double-height ground floor, forty-eight bays by sixteen bays. Two blocks at right angles to Baggot Street – Block 2 to south, four storeys over high ground floor, twenty-four bays by twelve bays; Block 3 to north, three-storey over high ground floor, twenty-four bays by twenty-four bays. Flat roofs throughout, with set-back attic storey. Reinforced-concrete frame, with glazed curtain wall clad in extruded bronze manganese. Curtain wall four windows wide to each structural bay, bronze aprons, spandrel panels, continuous vertical ribs and tinted glass. Colonnaded ground floors with metal-framed glazed screen walls set back on all elevations, with integral square-headed door openings. Plinth of Block 1 clad in stone panels. Fronting on Baggot Street Lower, with granite-paved entrance plaza between blocks, leading to raised entrance to Block 1. Stepped entrance from street comprising wide shallow steps flanked by low granite-clad walling. Sculpture 'Plaza Reflections' (1975) by Michael Bulfin on lower plaza and 'Red Cardinal' (1978) by John Burke on corner with James's Street East.

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_3234 (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.