Land parcel 5126881

Area

135 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 538 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

• 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

• Shop/retail outlet, 1915–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay five-storey commercial building, rebuilt in 1917, with recent shopfront to ground floor. Flat roof hidden behind red brick parapet wall with masonry coping and squat brick piers. Red brick chimneystack to south party wall with moulded profile. Cast-iron hopper and downpipe to south end. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with channelled granite quoins framing first second and third floors, with granite frieze and modillion cornice over third floor. Shallow brick pilasters framing top floor with granite cornice to base of parapet wall. Square-headed window openings with granite architrave surrounds, granite keystones and sills and original two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Plain granite ashlar frieze over second floor windows with rusticated granite ashlar walls to first floor framing original timber-framed canted oriel window with moulded cornice and timber casement windows resting on continuous granite cornice to ground floor. Recent shopfront is flanked by original granite console brackets. Bronze plaque to shopfront commemorating founding of Conradh na Gaeilge at site.

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.