Land parcel 5317911

Area

131 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 928 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

• 29 Jan 2025Grant retention permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE / RETENTION: The development consists of the retention of a new single-storey 17sq.m WC extension to the rear side (east) of 91/92 Benburb Street with minor changes to the rear (south) of 79 Queen Street and 2 new internal doors, one from the south elevation of No.79 and one from the east elevation of No. 91/92. No. 79 Queen Street is a protected structure (RPS reference 6884). The planning application may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of Dublin City Council, Planning Department, Block 4, Ground Floor, Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8 during its public opening hours (9.00a.m.- 4.30p.m.). A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the prescribed fee (€20.00) within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application, and such submissions or observations will be considered by the planning authority in making a decision on the application. The planning authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions, or may refuse to grant permission.

  Retention permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1161/25

• 21 Apr 2023Grant permission

  The development will consist of the change of use from retail use to restaurant use to the ground floor retail unit at 82 Queen Street, Dublin 7. Access to the unit will be provided through a new entrance doorway onto Queen Street. A refuse area will be allocated to the development in the existing rear service yard.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3614/23

• 21 Apr 2023Grant permission

  The development will consist of the change of use from retail use to restaurant use to the ground floor retail unit at 83 Queen Street, Dublin 7. Access to the unit will be provided through a new entrance doorway onto Queen Street. A refuse area will be allocated to the development in the existing rear service yard.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3616/23

• 13 Apr 2023Application declared inva

  PERMISSION: The development will consist of the change of use from retail use to restaurant use to the ground floor retail unit. Access to the unit will be provided through the existing entrance doorway onto Queen Street. A refuse area will be allocated to the development in the existing rear service yard.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3555/23

• 13 Apr 2023Application declared inva

  PERMISSION: The development will consist of the change of use from retail use to restaurant use to the ground floor retail unit. Access to the unit will be provided through a new entrance doorway onto Queen Street. A refuse area will be allocated to the development in the existing rear service yard.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3554/23

• 13 Mar 2023Refuse permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission for proposed development as follows: (a) connect the existing ground floor bar at 79 Queen Street and existing restaurant/bar at 91/92 Benburb Street to include new shopfront and hatch and construction of a new single-storey 20sqm WC extension to the rear side (east) of 91/92 Benburb Street and to the rear (south) of 79 Queen Street; (b) replace existing flat roof to the rear (south) over existing ground floor restaurant/bar of 91/92 Benburb Street with corresponding minor change to rear side (west) elevation including new door; (c) change of use of existing commercial/office use at first and second floor level of 79 Queen Street to associated guest bedroom accommodation for the provision of a total of 8 en suite bedrooms (5 double bedrooms, 3 single bedroom). All to include associated works and services at 79 Queen Street, Dublin 7, D07 DW3R, a protected structure (RPS ref. 6884) and 91/92 Benburb Street, Dublin 7, D07 WFH3.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3365/23

• 28 Feb 2023Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: (RPS ref. 6884) Permission for proposed development as follows: (a) connect the existing ground floor bar at 79 Queen Street and existing restaurant/bar at 91/92 Benburb Street to include new shopfront and hatch and construction of a new single-storey 20sqm WC extension to the rear side (east) of the restaurant/bar at 91/92 Benburb Street; (b) replace existing flat roof to the rear (south) over existing ground floor restaurant/bar of 91/92 Benburb Street with corresponding minor change to rear side (west) elevation including new door; (c) change of use of existing commercial/office use at first and second floor level of 79 Queen Street to associated guest bedroom accommodation for the provision of a total of 8 en suite bedrooms (5 double bedrooms, 3 single bedroom). All to include associated works and services at 79 Queen Street, Dublin 7, D07 DW3R, a protected structure (RPS ref. 6884) and 91/92 Benburb Street, Dublin 7, D07 WFH3.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3287/23

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

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

• Bargaintown, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay former three-storey house, built c.1860, having recent shopfront to ground floor. Now also in use a apartments. Hipped slate roof, with shared red brick chimneystacks, red brick parapet wall having dressed granite coping and stepped and moulded red brick cornice. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick laid in Flemish bond to walls, moulded red brick stringcourse over second floor. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs, granite sills and one-over-one pane timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening to ground floor, timber panelled door and plain overlight.

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, partly inferred.

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.