Land parcel 5304760

Area

44,719 m² (4.47 ha, 11.05 acres)

Buildings

30 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 6,900 m².

Zoning

R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
G5 Z9: Amenity/Open Space Lands/Green Network (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
R3 Z14: Strategic Development and Regeneration Areas (SDRAs) (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 21 Oct 2019Grant permission

  Permission for development at this site (0.72 hectare), known as Site 1b St. Michael's Estate, Inchicore, Dublin 8 bounded by Richmond Barracks to the north, the rear of Connolly Avenue to the east and Thornton Heights to the south. The development will consist of a one to four storey older persons housing with supports scheme, incorporating: (i) 52 no. apartment dwellings with balconies; (a) 16 no. 2 bedroom apartments; (b) 36 no. 1.5 bedroom apartments. (ii) Communal facilities at ground floor level to include a multipurpose room, additional ancillary spaces, staff offices and a publicly accessible tea room (26.5m2). (iii) Landscaping works to include resident courtyards and a landscaped open space (facing the St. Michaels Estate road) incorporating a new vehicle setdown area. (iv) 15 no. car parking spaces . (13 no. new car parking spaces to be accessed from an existing vehicular entrance and the relocation of 2 no. existing car parking spaces adjacent to the new vehicle setdown area). (v) 52 no. bicycle parking spaces. (vi) (ESB substation), external signage, site perimeter boundary treatments, plant rooms, waste storage enclosures and all associated ancillary development works and services. (vii) The development will consist of the following floor areas: - Total gross internal floor area (GIA): 4,655m2 (inclusive of all residential, communal, vertical circulation & ancillary spaces). - Area of external deck/gallery access (excluding balconies): 1,066.6m2. - Area of roof terrace (excluding balconies): 100.1m2. (viii) The building will be one to four storeys in height, with a top parapet level of 40.04m OD (measuring 14.835m above finished ground floor level).

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4260/19

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• DU018-536 Barracks
  Description

  Richmond Barracks / Inchicore Barracks   Richmond Barracks 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; ‘The barracks at Inchicore was constructed between 1807 and 1810 and was first occupied in 1814. Named Richmond Barracks after Charles Lennox, 4th duke of Richmond, the incumbent lord lieutenant at the time of construction, it was built both in response to the rebellions of 1798 and 1803 and the ongoing Napoleonic Wars, and out of a desire to consolidate and reduce the number of new smaller barracks that had proliferated in Dublin in the intervening years. The barracks was occupied by the British Army until 1922 when it was handed over to the Irish Free State. A relatively large complex, it was an infantry barracks with a capacity in 1867 for 67 officers and 1,439 infantrymen and 20 horses. Approximately 3,000 suspected rebels and sympathisers were held at Richmond Barracks in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising, with the leaders being held in the barracks gymnasium prior to their courts martial. The barracks was briefly renamed Keogh Barracks after Tom Keogh, an Irish Republican Army volunteer killed during the Irish War of Independence. The military handed the barracks over to Dublin Corporation in 1924 and parts of it were then converted into social housing in what became known as Keogh Square. In 1929 three of the buildings were purchased by the Christian Brothers in order to establish St Michael’s School. In the 1960s the Keogh Square housing was demolished and replaced with St Michael’s Estate, which in turn was demolished in 2013. However, the barrack buildings of the Christian Brothers school, which had closed in 2006, were thereafter refurbished along with the original barracks gymnasium as a visitor attraction and cultural centre in 2016 as part of the commemorative programme for the 1916 Easter Rising'.   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

• WI012-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In 1937-39 the following folklore was recorded from Calary National School; 'In the Church yard of Calary there is supposed to be a "Fairy-Fort". It is said that a man went to plough it and as soon as he put his hands on the plough, The horse & Plough were took out of his hands and they never came back and the man run away in fright' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 239). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Yasmin Fortune Date of upload: 31 January 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3180 (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.