# Land parcel 5269450, Ireland

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address.

- Parcel number at Tailte Éireann (SP_ID): 5269450
- Area: 198 m², as Tailte Éireann measures it
- Buildings (Tailte Éireann): 3 buildings touch it, 178 m² on the ground
- Townland: none: the statutory boundaries draw no townland here, as in the centres of Dublin, Cork and Galway

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Existing residential): Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11), Dublin City. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/2022-12/Final%201-14%20Land%20Use%20Zoning%2005.12.22.pdf

## Planning applications on this parcel (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

## Recorded monuments around it, by their zones of notification (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 46 recorded monuments.

- DU018-007001: Deer park, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007001-. The lands of the Priory of Kilmainham were seised N of the Liffey by the crown in the early 17th century in order to create a royal deerpark around the Phoenix and viceregal country residence built on the site of the present magazine fort. Its construction began in 1662 with the erection of an enclosing stone wall. The deerpark wall was worked on by stonemason, Henry Gamble in 1664/5, an account of his petition regarding the commencement of these works was described in 1664/5. On the 6th February 1664 a petition from Henry Gamble (Gambel) for ‘his makeing parte of the Parke wall at the rate of fower shillings six pence per perch [5m] according as hee sets forth in his petition. And, the petitioner entred on the said worke, and did make parte of that which he agreed for about five foote [1.5m] high. Soe much as did amount unto the summe of fower hundred twentie-three pounds or thereaboutes according to the rates aforesaid. But, soe it is, may it please your Excellency, that two third partes of the said wall which was made by your petitioner as aforesaid was taken downe and made up againe, and cost the summe of one hundred thirty-two pounds or thereabouts, which summe added to his receipt makes up five hundred and twelve pounds. Soe that, as the state of the worke now standeth, the petitioner hath received, more than his agreement, the summe of eighty-nine pounds besides, some other parte of the wall made by the petitioner must be taken down and new wrought, and which is not in this account. And furthermore, may it please your Excellencie, I did severall times desire the petitioner to take the wall downe and to make it up againe himselfe, but I could not get him to doe it. All which I humbly submit to your Excellencie's further consideration. Dated this 28th day of February 1664-5 – William Dodson’ (Anon. 1884, 161). The dispute over the workmanship of the wall and payment for these works continued into 1663 when the following details were recorded; 'According to your Lordship's order of the 10th of June 1663, we have veiwed and measured soe much of the work in the certificate hereunto annexed as hath been performed by Henry Gamble, mason, in the said certificate also named, according to certaine articles of agreement made between William Dodson, Esquire, on behalfe of his Majestie and the said Henry Gamble, and wee find that soe much of his Majestie's park wall in the said certificate also mentioned as hath been erected by the said Gamble, pursuant to the said articles, extendeth itself from the river Liffie, beneath Bowbridge [DU018-020287-], by the old wall of St. John's Chapple [DU018-020286-] neere Killmainham, to the new bridge [DU018-027003-/074] of Chapple-Izod, and contayneth in length by measure 320 perches [1,600m], at the least, besides 43 perches [216m] more, the said Henry Gamble affirming and produceing witneses to prove the same to have bine done and performed by him, and the said Mr. Dodson utterly denying the same; wee likewise finde, upon serious view and consideration of the whole matter to us referred, that that part of the said wall which is now defective was not occasioned through any neglect of the surveyor, or the said Henry Gamble, or any others under them or either of them imployed in the said work, which was well and in workmanlike manner performed by the said Henry Gamble as a dry wall, but meerly occasioned by reason the stones were not laid in mortar, they being of a soft and mouldring condition and not able to endure the sunn and weather without it. And wee further find that that part of the wall which hath been since done and performed by the said Henry Gamble conteyneth throughout five foot from the ground upwards, and is of more thickness and substance than that upper part of the said wall which hah bine since and coped by other men at day-work, which the said Henry Gamble ought likewise to have performed; and therefore wee think it just and meet to allow unto the said Henry Gamble one perch in five in regard thereof throughout the said work, which cometh to 64 perches [321m] more, which makes the whole work performed by the said Henry Gamble besides the 43 perches [216m] in dispute to amount to 384 perches [1,931m] accounting the same at 22s. 6d. each perch [5m] grosse, which cometh in the whole to 432 pounds sterling, besides the said 43 perches [216m] in difference, whereof wee find the said Henry Gamble hath received of the said Mr. Dodson the summ of 380l. sterling and noe more; soe that there remaineth due to the said Henry Gamble from the said Mr. Dodson, upon the whole accompt, besides the said 43 perches [216m] in dispute, the summe of 52 pounds sterling. Dated 28 August 1665’ (Gilbert 1885, 4-5). However, there was a second phase of wall building in 1680 AD (Ball 1906, IV, 181, 184, 189). The present wall encloses an area of 1,752 acres. It is coursed masonry with a stone capping (H 2.74m). There are 8 gates; at Parkgate Street, Chapelizod, Castleknock, North Circular Road, Cabra, Ashtown, Knockmaroon and Island bridge (Lord Killanin & Duignan 1967, 258-259, Mc Lysaght 1979, 235; Litton-Falkiner 1901, 465-88). In 1662 the exact bounds of the stone wall ran along the old Castleknock road to the meadows of the Liffey where Heuston Station stands. In 1671 the walls were straightened and left until 1680 when the lands south of the Liffey enclosing the Royal Hospital were extended and the Chapelizod road was taken as the boundary. This section of wall was built by Sir John Temple. There are private entrances in the western portion at Farmleigh and Mount Sackville Convent and Marlborough Cavalry Barracks (Cosgrave-Dillon 1909, 17-25). Anon. 1884 Appendix to Ninth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts Commission, Part II. Gilbert, J.T. 1885 The Manuscripts of the Most Honourable the Marquis of Ormonde, Kilkenny Castle. Historical Manuscripts Commission, Tenth Report, Appendix, Part V, 1-106. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 January 2023
- DU018-007002: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007002-. A late tower house called Ashtown Castle stands beside the former Under Secretary's Lodge or Papal Nuncio, originally the manor of Castleknock and prior to the Dissolution was held by the Hospital of St. John Without, Newgate. The lands had been granted in the early 13th century to the Hospital by Hugh Tyrrell, First Baron of Castleknock (Ball 1906, 187). The castle stands in the townland and parish of Castleknock (Caisleán Cnucha), in the barony of Castleknock. John Connell, of Ashtown, was seneschal to the Duke of Ormond in the 17th century and was described by Lord Orrery as a 'notorious rogue and tory' who forfeited his lands in Kerry and Dublin including the Phoenix Park (O'Connell 1892, 312). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Dublin recorded that in 1641 the proprietor of the lands of Ashtown was 'John Connell of Dublin Protestant' who was in possession of 'one Castle with two Thatcht houses vallewed by the Jury at Eight Pounds. Theire is alsoe one smale Orchard'(Simington 1945, 247). In 1664 the forfeited estate was purchase by Sir William Flower, who was the second keeper of the Park (Ball 1906, 188). Ashtown Castle is depicted on Petty's 1685 Map of County Dublin where it is depicted as a tower house type building (Petty 1685). Today the castle stands beside the OPW Visitor's Centre to the Phoenix Park. Prior to it's restoration by the OPW in the late 1980's, the tower house was hidden within the walls of a Georgian house once occupied by the under-secretary for Ireland. When that house was demolished in the late 1980, the tower house was revealed. Ball (1906, 187) recorded the following details about Ashtown; 'a castle, stood on the ground now occupied by the Under-Secretary's Lodge, and some portion of it is still to be found incorporated in the modern structure'. The castle stands three storeys high with an attic level. It is roughly rectangular in plan (int. dims. L 6.37m; Wth 4.96m; wall Wth 0.92m) with a stair turret in the SE corner that projects externally. Built of coursed masonry with dressed quoins. The ground floor was defended on the W by a musket loop. There is a blocked entrance in the S wall W of the stair turret and another round-arched doorway in the W wall. The interior was lit by a square-headed opening in the S wall. Georgian windows had been inserted into the ground floor. A timber floor over ground is held with corbels. First floor interior is lit by a slit ope on the E wall. The lintel for the original fireplace is present in the E wall. The second floor also had a lintelled fireplace held with corbels and an interior lit by a square-headed ope in the E wall. An early 17th century roof-truss in the E gable provides a date for at least the construction of the roof. Castle described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Detached three-storey fortified tower house with square-plan stair tower to southeast, built c.1605. Now in use as heritage centre. Pitched and graded slate saddle-back roof behind parapets, with dressed stone chimneystack with recesses and coping and stone steps to upper west gable. Squared rainwater openings to base of parapets. Walling is uncoursed limestone rubble. Square-headed window openings, with roughly stepped and chamfered stone architraves and sills, and with hood-moulding over upper south window. Windows replacement metal casements. Loops to tower. In-stepped round-headed doorcase to south with dressed stone architraves and replacement timber studded door. Set within mature landscaped gardens of former Ashtown Demesne, with Phoenix Park Visitor Centre and walled garden to west. Ground plan of former Ashtown Lodge marked by low box hedging. Surrounding garden and trees laid out by Ninian Niven c.1840' (NIAH Reg. No. 50060048; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/50060048/ashtown-castle-castleknock-within-phoenix-park-dublin-city). See attached photos courtesy of the OPW https://heritageireland.ie/places-to-visit/phoenix-park-visitor-centre-ashtown-castle/#gallery-2 DU018-007002-_03 By https://www.flickr.com/people/fwiffo/ - https://www.flickr.com/photos/fwiffo/442455869/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4570423 O'Connell, M.J. 1892 The Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade: Count O'Connell, and Old Irish Life at Home and Abroad, 1745-1833, Volume 2. K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited. London. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 January 2023
- DU018-007003: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007003-. In a low-lying situation in grassland, on the former grounds of the Apostolic Nunciature. The site comprises a flat-topped mound, roughly circular in plan (diam. 19m; H 2.5m). There is an elongated, waterlogged hollow along the S section of the site that may have been a source for the mound material. Along the SE section of the mound is a rectangular block of granite (L 0.76m; Wth 0.56m; H 0.4m) with a socket on the upper surface that may have held a cross or sign. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Upload date: 28 September 2011
- DU018-007004: House - 16th/17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007004-. According to Falkiner (1904, 59-60) in c. 1680 when the lands south of the Liffey were excluded from a re-organisation of Phoenix Park, a keepership was established at Castleknock Gate on the site of Mountjoy Barracks and the Ordnance Survey. There are no visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Upload date: 29 September 2011
- DU018-007005: Well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007005-. According to Joyce (1912) near the Phoenix column and just outside the Viceregal Grounds behind the Gate Lodge there is a clear spring which is supposed to be the original 'Fionn Uisce'. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant accepting this as an archaeological monument. Compiled by : Geraldine Stout Upload date: 30 September 2011
- DU018-007006: House - 18th/19th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007006-. Arás an Uachtaráin (Residence of the President) formerly the Viceregal Lodge in the Phoenix Park (Newtown Park), is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of Ireland. According to Scholes (1877, 35); 'This magnificent edifice was built in 1751 by the Right Honourable Nathaniel Clements, from whom in 1784, it was purchased by the Government, to serve as a country seat for the Lord Lieutenant'. D'Alton (1838, 537) recorded the following details about Nathaniel Clements; 'In 1751 Nathaniel Clements was appointed chief ranger and game-keeper of all his Majesty's parks, &c. in Ireland, and ranger of his Majesty's park the Phoenix, and keeper of the walk within said park called Newtown Park, in place of the Hon. Sir John Lewis Ligonier, Knight of the Bath, who had resigned'. This building is annotated 'the Lord Lieutenants' on Taylor's 1816 Map of Dublin. The house was described in 1818 as; 'The Vice-Regal Lodge was originally built by Mr. [Nathaniel] Clements, from whom it was purchased. It was a plain structure of brick. In 1802 Lord Hardwicke made the first important improvement, by adding the wings, in one of which is the great dining-hall. In 1808, the Duke of Richmond added the north portico, a structure of the Doric order and the lodges by which the demesne is entered on the side of Dublin. But the most striking addition to the building is the north front, added by Lord Whitworth. This is ornamented with a pediment supported by four Ionic pillars of Portland stone, from a design of Johnson's. The whole façade has been new faced to correspond with this portico, and it now stands a fair architectural ornament in the Park- a residence befitting a viceroy' (Warburton et. al. 1818, 1310). The building and landscaped surrounds were described by George Newenham Wright (1831, 26) as; 'The most extensive and beautiful of the enclosed demesnes in the Phoenix Park, is that appropriated as the summer residence of the Viceroy of Ireland. The building is spacious, and sufficiently architectural; the principal front consists of a centre and wings, the former a noble portico of the Ionic order, supporting a plain pediment of graceful proportions, the latter, perfectly plain, with the exception of six ornamented panels inserted between the upper and the basement stories. It is very singular, that such an agreeable and unassuming elevation could have been the result of so many alterations, and by so many different hands. The original mansion, the central portion of the present Lodge, was a simple brick building, erected by the Right Hon. Nathaniel Clements, ancestor of the Earl of Leitrim, in 1784, from whom it was purchased by the Crown. The present Earl of Hardwicke, when lord lieutenant of Ireland, added the wings, which contain the principal apartments in the Lodge, in the year 1802. The Duke of Richmond, in 1808, caused the north portico to be erected, a heavy structure of the Doric order: but, it was reserved for Lord Whitworth to embellish the whole by the addition of the beautiful, light Ionic colonnade, that stands prominent in the centre of the south front, the design of which was suggested by the late eminent architect F. Johnston, Esq. In 1821, his gracious Majesty, during his sojourn in Ireland, made this Lodge his constant residence, though he held his court at DUBLIN Castle, since which period it is most generally styled the Royal Lodge. The pleasure -grounds are very extensive, and highly improved: they contain two spacious ponds well - stocked with trout, tench, carp, and pike ; several noble gardens and orchards; many delightful rides through shrubberies and plantations; and, including what is considered to be his excellency's demesne, occupy an area of one hundred and sixty-one English acres. Around the south front we see lofty limes, and elms of stately and picturesque forms, between which, distant views of the Wicklow and Dublin mountains are occasionally presented; while the foreground and middle distance of the View from the Lodge and its pleasure-grounds, are occupied by a spacious area, broken and diversified by an undulating surface, and by a variety of luxuriant forest trees. The demesne of the Royal Lodge is entered between two gate-lodges of a very elegant and chaste design, where guards of honor are always placed; those, as well as the noble gates of entrance in Park-gate street, were erected by command of the late Duke of Richmond'. Photo © William Murphy https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%81ras_an_Uachtar%C3%A1in_2010.jpg DU018-007006-_03 courtesy https://www.archiseek.com/2010/1751-aras-an-uachtarain-phoenix-park-dublin/ See attached Taylor's 1816 Map showing the house annotated 'the Lord Lieutenants' Taylor, J. 1816 Taylor's map of the environs of Dublin: extending 10 to 14 miles from the castle, by actual survey, on a scale of 2 inches to one mile. Scholes, J.C. 1877 A Few Random Rambles in and about the City of Dublin. J. Stead. Bolton. Wright. G.N. 1831 Ireland Illustrated, from original drawings, by G. Petrie, R.H.A., W. H. Bartlett, & T. M. Baynes. With descriptions, by G. N. Wright. H. Fisher, Son & Jackson. London Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 January 2023
- DU018-007007: Designed landscape feature, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007007-. Located in flat terrain just NW of the cross erected for the arrival of Pope John Paul in Phoenix Park. This large enigmatic enclosure is shown on the 1837 edition OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval enclosure (Int. L 152m, E-W; Wth 123m N-S) and appears as a ditched feature on aerial photographic coverage (pers. comm. Leo Swan). It is visible on the ground as a curving flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.2-4m; D 0.2-0.4m) which encloses a level, oval area. There is a causeway in the NE which opens onto an avenue-like feature extending from the Chief Secretary's house. It is disturbed by a number of later trackways that transect the site. A trough has been placed within the interior. The size, shape and form of this enclosure compares favourably with the landscaped areas in the park and it may be a landscaped feature of 18th-century date. On Rocque's map of County Dublin (1760) it is shown as part of the extensive gardens of the Chief Secretary's house. Compiled by : Geraldine Stout Upload date: 30 September 2011
- DU018-007008: Well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007008-. Formerly within Phoenix Park, this was a spa well called Feenisk (Fionn Uisge) which was famous for its curative powers. The site was levelled in the late Nineteenth century (Daly 1957, 17-18). There are no visible remains above ground. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Upload date: 28 September 2011
- DU018-007009: Megalithic structure (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007009-. The present megalithic structure which stands in the Zoological Gardens was originally uncovered in a sandpit close to Chapelizod not far from Knockmary in the Phoenix Park. A human skeleton was found within the tomb (Borlase 1897, 381, 2; Poe 1904, 5-6). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Upload date: 28 September 2011
- DU018-007010: Road - road/trackway, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007010-. The Down Survey (1655-6) map shows 'The Highway to Monnoth from Dublin' along the line of the present south road in Phoenix Park. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 28 September 2011
- DU018-007011: Linkardstown burial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007011-. Situated on a natural ridge overlooking the Liffey Valley, inside the Chapelizod gate at Phoenix Park. Known as 'Cnoc-Maraidhe' or 'Hill of the Mariners'. In the early 19th-century a mound stood on the site. Excavations exposed the central cist containing two crouched skeletons accompanied by a shell necklace, flint knife and bone toggle. Four small cists were also discovered, containing cremated bones and food vessels, two of which were bowls (Wood-Martin 1895, 281, Fig.74; Waddell 1970, 115; Waddell 1990, 81). All that survives today of this cemetery mound is the central megalithic cist comprising a flat slab lying on two boulders set into concrete. There are holes in the face of the stones. Ryan (1981, 142) and Brindley and Lanting (1989-90) classify this monument as a Linkardstown-type burial of Late Neolithic date. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Upload date: 28 September 2011
- DU018-007012: Bastioned fort, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007012-. In the early part of the 18th century a star-shaped fort was built in the Phoenix Park inside the Dublin Gate in the SE end of the park (Ball 1906, IV, 192). In September 1834 a number of improvements were made to the Park under the direction of Decimus Burton including the levelling and filling of the star-shaped fort and underground drains which replaced open drains. The 1837 edition OS 6-inch map shows part of this fort which is annotated 'STAR FORT'. There are sports grounds on the site (Mc Cullen, 1993, 94). Annotated 'THE FORTIFICATION' on Rocque's 1757 map of County Dublin. See attached Rocque's 1757 map showing the Bastioned fort See attached Taylor's 1816 Map showing the upstanding remains of the Star Fort Taylor, J. 1816 Taylor's map of the environs of Dublin: extending 10 to 14 miles from the castle, by actual survey, on a scale of 2 inches to one mile. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 January 2023
- DU018-007013: House - 16th/17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007013-. Formerly located on a commanding eminence within Phoenix Park. In 1611 Sir Edward Fisher erected a country house in a prominent location at Thomas's hill where the Magazine Fort stands (Litton-Falkiner 1901, 470). In 1618 Fisher surrendered his position to the king who acquired the house and surrounding land for the kings representative in Ireland (Falkiner 1904, 48-50). From 1617 onwards it was known as His majesty's House at Kilmainham and called the Phoenix. In the 1650's Henry Cromwell resided at the Phoenix. He added a large wing, several stories high. In 1661 a chapel and hall were added (Ball 1906, 180-182). The Down Survey (1655-6) of the parish of Kilmainham shows a large gabled building with three chimneys. The house was demolished when the Magazine Fort was built in 1734. This was commented on by Swift who remarked 'Behold a proof of Irish Sense/here Irish wit is seen/when nothings left that's worth defence/They build a magazine' (Falkiner 1904, 52). Compiled by : Geraldine Stout Upload date: 07 June 2012
- DU018-007014: House - 17th/18th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007014-. The Chief Secretary's Lodge is located on the site of the Bailiff's Lodge which was probably built in the 17th century. The 18th century house was described by Mark Bence-Jones (1988, 280) as; 'A house originally built 1776 by Sir John Blaquiere MP (afterwards 1st Lord de Blaquiere) Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant and one of the leading figures in the political life of Ireland during later c18; in a demesne carved out of Phoenix Park which he obtained on the strength or being the Parks Bailiff. In 1782, he was asked to surrender the house and grounds in return for compensation, and the house became the official residence of the Chief Secretary, the principal executive of the government of Ireland under British Rule. The house was enlarged and altered at various times but has a predominantly late Georgian character of 2 storeys, with a bowed projection at either end of its principal front. Along this front is a fine enfilade of reception rooms. A large glass conservatory was added at one end 1832 by Lord Naas (afterwards 6th Earl of Mayo and Viceroy of India), while he was Chief Secretary. Later in the century, probably 1865 during the Chief Secretaryship of Chichester Fortescue (afterwards Lord Carlingford), the 2 bowed projections were joined by a single-storey corridor into which were thrown the centre rooms, making hem much deeper; the main wall of the house being carried by Ionic columns. The house became the United States Legation 1927; afterwards the Embassy'. Compiled by : Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload date: 26 January 2023
- DU018-007018: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007018-. A holy well known as St Fintan's Well was located at one of three possible sites identified by Ó Danachair (1958, 76) who recorded the following details; ' "St. Fintan's Well" is said to be in or near Phoenix Park. It is variously identified with (a) 'The Spa Well' [ITM coords 712798/735402] at the north western end of the Zoological Gardens, (b) "The Poor Man's Well" [ITM coords 709861 / 736752] beside Blackhorse Avenue on the northern boundary of the Park and (c) a well [ITM Coords 711494/735821] in the moat of the sunk fence beside the western gate of Áras an Uachtaráin. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 25 January 2023
- DU018-007019: Bastioned fort, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007019-. The Phoenix House (DU018-007013-) was demolished in 1734 to make way for the building of the Magazine Fort (McCullen 2009, 37) which was used as the distribution centre for powder and munitions to serve the Dublin barracks. The fort is quadrilateral in plan with four demi-bastions surrounded by a dry moat: the entrance was via a drawbridge on its east side. Later modified c. 1760 and again in 1801 when the triangle of brick buildings were erected in front of the entrance (ibid., 38), it continued in use until the mid-20th century. Described in 1818 as; 'The Powder Magazine, erected in 1738. This is a regular square fort, with demi-bastions at the angles, a dry ditch, and drawbridge, in the centre are the magazines for ammunition, well secured against accidental fire, and bomb proof, in evidence of which no casualty has happened since their construction. The fort occupies two acres and thirty-three perches of ground, and is fortified by ten twenty-four pounders: as a further security, and to contain barracks for troops, which before were drawn from Chapel-Izod, an additional triangular work was constructed in 1801' (Warburton et. al. 1818, 1309). The fort was successfully raided at the start of the Easter Rising in 1916 as the signal for the rebellion to commence. It was raided again in 1939 when a large amount of guns and munitions were taken: these were later retrieved (ibid., 309). The fort has been immortalised by Dean Swift (1667-1745) in the following satirical verse: 'Behold a proof of Irish sense / here Irish wit is seen, / when nothings left that's worth defence / they build a magazine.' (ibid., 38) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 25 January 2023
- DU018-007021: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007021-. An aerial photograph (2007) shows evidence for a circular enclosure in the S of the Phoenix Park (pers comm. Martin Reid, ASI Archive Unit). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Upload date: 29 September 2011
- DU018-007022: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007022-. An aerial photograph (2007) shows evidence for a circular enclosure in the S of Phoenix Park (pers comm. Martin Reid, ASI Archive Unit). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Upload date: 07 June 2012
- DU018-007023: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007023-. An aerial photograph (2007) shows evidence for a circular enclosure in the S of the Phoenix Park (pers comm. Martin Reid, ASI Archive Unit). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Upload date: 29 September 2011
- DU018-007024: Burial, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-007024-. Human remains were recovered from a burrow at the base of a tree in January 2016. Further to examination and analysis for the National Museum of Ireland the human remains were found to represent two individuals, a single older adult male and one bone representing an infant. According to the Park Rangers an earlier discovery of a child's burial had been made at the same location some 30 years previously. Soil matrix adhering to the bones demonstrate that the bones had been buried before they were found on the surface. A pig's tooth was found in association with the remains. The radiocarbon date is AD 997-1162 at 95% probability curve makes it likely that the true date can be refined slightly to AD 1011-1162, contemporary with nearby Hiberno-Norse Dublin (pers comm. Andrew Halpin NMI). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 25 January 2016
- DU018-027001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-027001-. Located in Chapelizod village and backed to the N by the Phoenix Park. According to the Book of Howth a chapel was founded here in 519 A.D. apparently associated with the legendary Isolde from which the village derives its name (Kissane 1994,9). In 1228 King Henry III granted the advowson (the right to nominate a church living) to the prior of the Order of St John of Jerusalem at Kilmainham documenting the presence of a church in existence here in the early 13th century. After the Dissolution the church was granted to various lay owners and in 1597 the college of the Holy Trinity was granted some of it's possessions (Ball 1903, 176). According to the Civil Survey (Simington, 1945) the church is described as then being a "chaple in repayre" but all that now survives of the medieval church is the medieval stone tower with semi-engaged stair tower. The attached nave of the Church of Ireland, Church of St. Lawrence, which extends eastwards from the tower is dated to 1859. The stone tower is square in plan (int. dims. 4.2m, wall thickness 0.70m) and is built of coursed rubble masonry with dressed quoins. It rises to four storeys with corner piers and crenallations at the top. There are tracery windows within a segmental arch in the west face at ground and first floor level but otherwise there are original narrow slit windows at first and second floor level on with paired round-headed lancets at the belfry level. The entrance, up six steps at the S front, a later feature is framed by a dressed stone architrave with tudor arch surmounted by a hood moulding. It provides access to the later church at this level. The staircase is a projecting semi-engaged stair turret which is lit by slit opes and a lancet window at first floor level. The tower floors are of timber. Within the church are two mural tablets of seventeenth century date, one dedicated to Henry and Elizabeth Hierome and the other to Gyles Curwen, his wife Luci and two grandchildren who died in their infancy (Ball 1906, 176). Excavations at St. Martins Row in 1992 showed that the medieval graveyard extended to the NW of the present boundary wall as burials were uncovered which pre-dated a ditch dated on the basis of potsherds to the 13th-14th century (King 1993, 15). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Margaret Keane Uploaded on: January 4 2018
- DU018-027002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-027002-. Located in Chapelizod village on the present site of the Church of Ireland church of St. Lawrence. Excavations at St. Martins Row in 1992 showed that the medieval graveyard extended to the NW of the present boundary wall as burials were uncovered which pre-dated a ditch dated on the basis of potsherds to the 13th-14th century (King 1993, 15). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Uploaded: 3 January 2018
- DU018-027004: Town defences, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-027004-. The medieval town of Chapelizod was surrounded by a wall. It was still standing at the beginning of the 17th century as the E gate of the town is mentioned (Ball 1906, 165). The only possible building associated with the defences may be a two-storey, square house at the corner of St Martins Row. This has a chamfered corner to first floor level with traces of moulding painted over. On the N face is a tablet with a lion rampant and a moulding, which formerly contained a motto above it. The windows in the building are peculiarly arranged as if later inserted. This may be a medieval building.
- DU018-027005: Water mill - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-027005-. The mill stream or race that runs through Chapelizod village may indicate the former location of a tuck mill mentioned in the Civil survey (1654-6) and marked on the Down Survey (1655-6) maps (Simington 1945, 223). Chapelizod's milling industry originated in the medieval period. Hugh, Bishop of Meath, mentions a mill on the manor of Chapelizod in the Great Pipe Rolls for the first year of Henry 111's reign (Went 1954, 51). Mention is also made of a mill leased to John de Selby for the year 1305 (ibid 12). The presentmillrace at Chapelizod has late concrete sidings but there is stone masonry visible on the N face. Pre-development testing on the site of the mill associated with this millrace in 1994 exposed a disturbed trench that produced Medieval cooking ware and wood and bone fragment (Carroll 1995, 19). Another excavation at Maiden Row junction identified a pre-mid 18th -century clay bonded, river revetment and a Dutch clay pipe bowl dated to 1830 (Gowen 1995, 18-19). Excavations in 2002uncovered a millrace and drystone mill undercroft. The undercroft was constructed of rectangular blocks of stone, while the tail-race was faced roughly with rubble blocks. The mill had been reconstructed on possibly three occassions and dates to the 10th-11th century(Walsh, c. (2004, 135). Pre -development testing in 1994 at the junction of Maiden Row (which runs along the north side of the mill race) and Chapelizod Road revealeda clay-bonded riverfront revetment. Examination of the river bank on the south-eastern side of the 'mill stream' bridge revealed a very similar structure in situ. In that location the revetment survives four courses high and is composed of similar squared blocks. The dating of the structure is established by finds retrieved from the ashy layer behind it. These include a fragment of a brown-glazed Staffordshire cup, a tin-glazed Staffordshire plate and a fragment of hand-painted delft. The revetment is therefore unlikely to have been in existence when Rocque's map was made(Gowen 1995, 18-19).
- DU018-027007: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-027007-. A two storey building on St Martin's Row witha stone tablet inset into the wall (DU018-027008-). The window of this building are irregular and may be later inserts. This building has a chamfered corner to first floor level with traces of moulding that have been painted over.
- DU018-027008: Armorial plaque, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-027008-. On the N face of a two storey building (DU018-027004-) at 39 Main Street there is a stone tablet inset into the wall illustrating a rampant lion within a moulding which is reported to have had a motto above it. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 7 February 2018
- DU018-027009: Weir - fish, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-027009-. According to Went (1954, 51-52) there was a salmon weir granted to Sir William Wyse of Waterfordin Chapelizod in 1524. The Civil survey (1654-6) describes a salmon weir on the river Liffey at Chapelizod (Simington 1945, 223). This was probably associated with the dam formerly used for supplying water to the mills in the area on or close to the present mill dam. No longer used as a fishery except for angling.
- DU018-027011: Tomb - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-027011-. Ball mentions a mural tablet in Chapelizod church commemorating members of the Hierom's family who died in the 17th century (Ball 1906, 180).
- DU018-027012: Tomb - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-027012-. Ball mentions a mural tablet in Chapelizod church commemorating members of the Low family who died in the 17th century (Ball 1906, 180).
- DU018-028004: House - 17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-028004-. This house is located at a corner on the eastern side of the triangular market square of Chapelizod with an address at 39 Main Street. It is a square, two bay, two storey building with a slate roof, pitched to the E and hipped to the W, with paired square chimney-stacks in the SE corner of the roof. The house is entered from the N façade through a flat headed doorway. Its lintel lies below the level of the respective ground floor window lintel. Distinctively the corner of the building closest to market square has been chamfered at ground floor level to a rounded corner supporting the upper floor by an angled timber post. The windows with replacement timber sashes lying flush to the wall surface are arranged in an asymmetric fashion. Window opes are flat headed save for the S first floor window which is arched segmentally. The roof rises above an eaves cornice with dentils on edge apparent on the N façade but obscured on the W façade. The wall surface has a rough pebble dash render. Between the first floor windows of the N façade is a recessed armorial plaque (DU018-028008-) with a lion rampant and a motto/date above, which is obscured by over-painting. Compiled by: Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 3 January 2018
- DU018-419: Graveslab (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-419----. This is the present location of the decorated grave slab from Tully, Co. Dublin (see DU026-023011-). It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This slab (H 1.06m, Wth 0.53m – 0.56m, T 0.14m) bears a Latin ringed cross in low relief on which are five cup-marks. There is a small cupmark on each arm and one at the intersection. There is a semi-spherical boss under each arm and herringbone design flanks each side of the shaft. In 1989 the slab was taken into the care of the Office of Public Works. (Ó hÉailidhe 1973, 56-57, 135; Corlett 2014, 101, Slab 1). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015
- DU018-420: Graveslab (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-420----. This is the present location of the decorated grave slab from Tully, Co. Dublin (see DU026-023010-). It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This slab (H 1.51m, Wth 0.41-0.27m, T 0.08m) is tapered and has two vestigial arms protruding from the edges. It bears three groups of concentric circles on a central band with herringbone pattern on each side (Ó hÉailidhe 1957, 79, no. 10; Ó hÉailidhe 1973, 56, 57, B13). In 1989 the slab was taken into the care of the Office of Public Works. (Swords 2009, 93-4; Corlett 2014, 93-4, Slab 2) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015
- DU018-421: Graveslab (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-421----. This is the present location of the decorated grave slab from Tully, Co. Dublin (see DU026-023006-). It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This slab (L 1m; Wth 0.48m and 0.10m to 0.13m T) was found deeply buried in an upright position in 1982 c. 15m SW of the chancel of the church (DU026-023001-). It tapers slightly and has a large corner broken from one end and an unknown amount from the other. It bears a cup-mark enclosed by three concentric circles. An off-centre band extends from the outer circular to the opposite end. At each side of this band are diagonal and transverse lines forming a herring bone pattern. The slab was secured to the inside wall of the chancel and in 1989 was taken into the care of the Office of Public Works. (Ó hÉailidhe 1982; Corlett 2014, 102, Slab 3). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015
- DU018-422: Cross-inscribed stone (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-422----. This is the present location for this stone that was formerly in the graveyard at Tully (see DU026-023020-). It consists of a granite block (0.74m long, 0.53m wide and 0.20m thick) with a cross-in-circle carved in false relief. The carving is not central to the stone and comprises an equal-armed cross set within a circle (diam. 0.33m). Part of the circle and one of the arms of the cross are defaced. One long side and the two ends of the stone have been dressed to a straight edge whereas the other long side and the rear of the stone have been left rough. There is no sign that the stone has been broken at either end, implying that this is its original intended shape and size. The stone is in the care of the Office of Public Works. (Corlett 2014, 102) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015
- DU018-457: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-457----. Situated in the SE quadrant of the Phoenix Park, 60m N of artillery batteries associated with an 18th century bastioned fort (DU018-007019-) 310m to SE. The batteries and the Magazine Fort are depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. int. diam. 30m) visible on various Google Earth aerial photographs. The faint outline of this enclosure is visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery. A grove of trees are depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The cropmark may be the remains of a tree-ring or designed landscape feature of post-1700 date but this is uncertain. The circular cropmark appears to be located within the SE quadrant of a formal garden the cropmark of which is visible on Google Earth orthphoto taken 07/05/2017. See attached orthophotos taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by John Mulligan Date of upload: 22 May 2020
- DU018-458: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-458----. Situated in the S quadrant of the Phoenix Park. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 15m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth orthophotograph taken 28/01/2017. See attached orthophoto taken from Google Earth dated 28/01/2017 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 May 2020
- DU018-459: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-459----. Situated in the S quadrant of the Phoenix Park. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 15m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth orthophotograph taken 28/01/2017. See attached orthophoto taken from Google Earth dated 28/01/2017 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 May 2020
- DU018-460: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-460----. Situated in S sector of the Phoenix Park. Cropmarks of crenellated lines of First World War practice trenches visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 28/01/2017. Similar crenellated lines visible 60m to NNW. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/01/2017. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by John Mulligan Date of upload: 22 May 2020
- DU018-461: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-461----. Situated in S sector of the Phoenix Park. Cropmarks of crenellated lines of First World War practice trenches visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 28/01/2017. Similar crenellated lines visible 70m to N. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/01/2017. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by John Mulligan Date of upload: 22 May 2020
- DU018-462: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-462----. Situated in S sector of the Phoenix Park. Cropmark of building of unknown antiquity aligned NW-SE visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 28/01/2017. Cropmark of crenellated lines belonging to first World War practice trenches visible 40m to W. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/01/2017. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 May 2020
- DU018-463: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-463----. Situated in S sector of the Phoenix Park. Cropmark of building of unknown antiquity aligned NW-SE visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 28/01/2017. Cropmark of crenellated lines belonging to first World War practice trenches visible 20m to W. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/01/2017. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 May 2020
- DU018-464: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-464----. Situated in S sector of the Phoenix Park. Cropmark of a U-plan building of unknown antiquity visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 29/05/2018. Appears to be standing centre of large enclosure the cropmark of which is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 29/05/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 May 2020
- DU018-465: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-465----. Situated in S sector of the Phoenix Park. Cropmark of building of unknown antiquity aligned NW-SE visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 29/05/2018. Cropmark of crenellated lines of World War I practice trenches visible 60m to N. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 29/05/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 May 2020
- DU018-466: Battery, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-466----. Salute Battery in the Phoenix Park is depicted at this location on Taylor's 1816 Map of County Dublin, the battery is partially hachured on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map which shows the earthwork immediately to the E of the Wellington Monument, which was partially built on the site of the battery. Fortification described in 1818 as; 'The Salute Battery, situated on the highest ground in the Park. It mounts twelve pieces of cannon, twelve pounders, which are fired on rejoicing days; but as such are not likely to occur as often as formerly, its site has been given by the Board of Ordnance to the Wellington Committee, for the erection of the Grand Trophy [Wellington Monument]' (Warburton et. al. 1818, 1309) See attached Taylor's 1816 Map showing the location of Salute Battery. Taylor, J. 1816 Taylor's map of the environs of Dublin: extending 10 to 14 miles from the castle, by actual survey, on a scale of 2 inches to one mile. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 January 2023
- DU018-482: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-482----. Located N of a medieval road (DU018-007010-) from Maynooth to Dublin in an area of grassland on the Phoenix Park, Keeper's Lodge 270m to the E and St. Mary's Hospital 360m to the WNW. Semi-circular shaped cropmark (diam. c. 31m) visible on 2013-18 OSi aerial imagery. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Martin Reid.
- DU018-543: Barracks, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU018-543----. Mountjoy Barracks A 19th-century barracks on Dean Street 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; ‘A barracks was located at Mountjoy House at the western end of the Phoenix Park. Built on crown lands, though in private hands during the eighteenth century, the original structure dated from approximately 1728 and was sometimes referred to as Castleknock Lodge. Returned to the government for use as an army barracks in the aftermath of the 1798 Rebellion, the British Army Ordnance Survey department was based there from 1825 onwards. Additional barrack blocks were added in the 1880s. The Ordnance Survey of Ireland was established after Irish independence and remains in the original complex. The Irish Defence Forces maintained a presence within the Ordnance Survey of Ireland until the early 2000s. It is now a civilian agency and has been merged into a new entity called Tailte Éireann'. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Hibernian House, house, 1915–1925, Regional interest, registry number 50060314, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DU&regno=50060314. Terraced gabled-fronted three-bay three-storey house, built c.1920, set within terrace of eighteenth to twentieth-century buildings. Roof is replacement artificial slate, gabled to road with timber fascia and bargeboards and gable is detailed with faux half-timbering. Concealed gutter with cast-iron downpipe to rear. Chimneystack appears to have been removed. Walling is red brick stretcher-bonded to front, cement rendered to rear. Windows are original square-headed timber side-hung casements, grouped in threes with shared sill to upper floors; those to second floor diminished in height, and central windows in each group are slightly taller. Rusticated granite lintels and sills, and plain reveals. Segmental-arch lintels to ground floor, shared over paired openings with brick voussoirs. Original timber four-panelled door with original brass door furniture, accessed by two painted masonry steps. House set back from main street behind small gravelled front plot, enclosed to side by red brick boundary wall having stacked brick coping, with red brick piers surmounted by painted masonry ball finials and supporting steel pedestrian gate. Hedge boundary to front.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3149, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3149.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Neighbouring parcels within 25 m (Tailte Éireann)

- Parcel 5604984: 188 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5604984.md
- Parcel 5721236: 148 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5721236.md
- Parcel 3388071: 120 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3388071.md
- Parcel 5174388: 108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5174388.md
- Parcel 5082440: 79 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5082440.md
- Parcel 5271469: 66 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5271469.md
- Parcel 5271445: 24 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5271445.md
- Parcel 5174386: 21 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5174386.md
- Parcel 5271465: 11 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5271465.md

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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