Land parcel 5134514

Area

607 m²

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,564 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

• 27 Nov 2020Refuse permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of: (i) Repair and refurbishment of existing single storey and two-storey structure (a Protected Structure) (ii) Construction of a part 5-storey, part 6-storey hostel development consisting of the following: (a) 4 no. floors of hostel accommodation above existing single storey building and 4 no. floors of hostel accommodation above existing two-storey building; (b) 49 no. bedrooms comprising 44 no. double bedrooms and 5 no. triple bedrooms (8 no. at first floor, 11 no. at second floor, 11 no. at third floor, 11 no. at fourth floor and 8 no. at fifth floor); (c) 2 no. kitchen facilities, 1 no. pantry, cold room, fridge, sluice room, storeroom, plant room, laundry room, meeting room, administration, reception, 2 no. changing rooms, 3 no. showers and 3 no. WC all at ground floor level; 2no. communal areas (52.8 sqm and 23 sqm) at first floor level; 1 no. communal area (22.7 sqm) & a roof terrace (50 sqm) both at fifth floor level; and (d) 10 no. external bicycle parking spaces. the hostel will be accessed from both Island Street and Usher’s Island. The development includes all associated boundary treatments, inclusive of refurbishment of existing entrance gateway on Usher’s Island, site works and engineering necessary to facilitate the development.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3821/20

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 7 recorded monuments.

• DU018-020312 Bridge
  Description

  This bridge which spans the River Liffey was built in 1776 and occupies thesite of Arran Bridge, built in 1683 (Dillon Cosgrave 1977, 5 (2nd ed. ); Maher 1932, 12; Tutty 1981, 25-26).

• DU018-020313 School
  Description

  The site isidentified as the site of the medieval school of St Thomas Aquinas. Excavations in 1998 on thenorthern portion of the site extending from Bridgefoot Street to Island Street contained archaeological soils. In places there is c. 2.5m of archaeological deposits. (O'Rourke 2000, 45-46).

• DU018-020314 Bridge
  Description

  The Dublin City Development Plan (1991, No. 15) shows the 'site of Bridge'at Bonham Street N (Bradley & King 1987, 3).

• DU018-020318 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  De Courcy describes a former dwelling W of Fr. Matthew's Bridge which was associated with the Ussher family in the Sixteenth century (1996, 401-402). This backed onto the river Liffey. Perrot's survey of 1585 provide some dimensions (L 32.5m, wall T.1.25m, wall H 5.9m). This apparently occupied the site of a house mentioned in 1284 when it was granted to Robert de Notyngham and later restored in 1317 by John de Grauntsete(op cit 402). No visible trace

• DU018-020530 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Dublin Environmental Inventory. Dept. of Architecture, UCD. lists house No. 12. Date uncertain.

• DU018-020531 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Dublin Environmental Inventory, Dept. of Architecture, UCD, lists House No. 15. Date uncertain.

• DU018-556 House - 17th/18th century
  Description

  Arran Quay Watch House    Watch House is depicted on the northern side of of the River Liffey at the west end of Arran Quay, at the junction with Bridewell Bridge (DU018-020312-) and Queen Street.  Annotated ‘W.H’ on Rocque’s 1756 map of Dublin. On this map a building is depicted standing on the north side of the River Liffey, immediately to the east of Bridewell bridge (now Mellow’s Bridge). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of Compilation: 13 November 2025

Architectural heritage

• Store/warehouse, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay two-storey warehouse, built c.1830, having fourteen-bay west elevation, and single-storey extension with pitched corrugated-iron roof to west elevation. Now disused. Remains of hipped corrugated-iron roof. Rubble limestone walls with cut limestone quoins to west and north elevations, rendered walls to front (south). Square-headed window openings having yellow brick block-and-start surrounds and granite sills. Metal grilles and bars to exterior of windows. Square-headed shuttered entrance to front elevation. Boundary walls to north of site, comprising snecked cut limestone walls topped with cast-iron railings, having double-leaf cast-iron gates flanked by square-profile piers. Pedimented pedestrian entrances to either end of boundary walls, having square-headed openings with cast-iron single-leaf gates.

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.

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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.