Land parcel 5454861

Area

107 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 186 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

• 21 Jan 2020Grant retention permissio

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE & RETENTION: Retention permission for the following works at No. 43 Aungier Street, Dublin 2 (a Protected Structure) and No. 1 Digges Street Upper, Dublin 2: a) No. 1 Digges Street Upper: Reinstatement of two no. windows at first and second floors to the north elevation; the removal of a roof to a single storey annex at the north-east corner, with guarding to the surrounding flat roof, to provide an open air smoking area; the relocation of the disabled w.c. within the ground plan; the removal of internal brick wall at first floor and ground floor level and b) 43 Aungier Street and No. 1 Digges St. Upper: other minor alterations as reflected on the revised as-built drawings.

  Retention permission · Dublin City Council, 2082/20

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 2 recorded monuments.

• DU018-020124 Cross - Market cross
  Description

  The Friends of Medieval Dublin Map (1978) shows the former location of a cross near the eastern end of Bishop Street. This was formerly known as Butter Lane now Bishop Street. There are no visible surface remains (Bradley & King 1987 2, 149; FMD map (1978) 03, Clarke 2002, 12). At the Common Pleas held at Dublin in 1326-7 before Thomas Fitz John, earl of Kildare, justiciary of Ireland, an Inquisition into the extent of the boundaries of Dublin City recorded that; 'the pasture which extends as far as St. Kevin's gate [DU018-020036-) and so by the way as far as Kilmerecaregan [Donnybrook area/Leeson Street area] and by the boundary of the land of Dovenachbrok [Donnybrook] as far as Dodir [Dodder]. And from the gate of St. Kevins church (DU018-020078-), by the way towards the north, so far as the stone cross [Butter Cross] where the old market was formerly, towards the west. Thence by the lane near the church of the Holy Sepulchre [DU018-020118-], going towards the north so far as an old lane, closed up, near the common of the vicars of St Patrick's church (DU018-020113-) extending as far as the street of that church' (CARD 1, 156-7). In 1603 the boundaries of Dublin City were described as from; 'the high way aforesaid [Dublin-Donnybrook Highway] at a shard uppon the west corner of the said Kilmakeregan [area between St. Stephen's Green and Donnybrook / possibly area around Leeson Street], and rode alongest that high way to St. Stephin's green, and tooke the sowth syde of the green...syde, to St Kevin's Gate [DU018-020036-], and torned in the lane norward, tyll they came to the east end of the Butter lane [Great Boater Lane], which was broken, and they entred therat; and in that lane lyeth an ould cross of stone, and it was said that crosse was called the Butter Crosse, for that in ould tyme the provision of butter that came from the marches and Tooles' country to Dublin was sould ther' (CARD 1, 193). See attached Friends of Medieval Dublin 1978 map showing possible site of the 'Butter Cross/Market' and a town gate on Digges Street Upper (Clarke 2002). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 29 November 2022

• DU018-020194 Gateway
  Description

  The precise location of a gateway at the junction between Digges Street Upper and Aungier Street has not been identified (Bradley and King 1987, 3, 197, no 200). This gateway site was shown on the Irish Historic Towns Atlas map of Medieval Dublin c. 840–c. 1540 (Clarke 1978; Clarke 2002). See attached section of Medieval Dublin c. 840–c. 1540. In H.B. Clarke, Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 11, Dublin, Part I, to 1610. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2002 (www.ihta.ie, accessed 14 April 2016). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 5 December 2022

Architectural heritage

• Public house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace four-storey over concealed basement public house, built c. 1890, with three-bay elevation to Digges Street Upper and two-bay elevation to Aungier Street. Now disused. Brick and stone pub shopfront spanning ground floor. Earlier three-bay three-storey rendered block abutting east elevation with rendered shopfront. Currently vacant and boarded up. Hipped natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles and tall profiled red brick chimneystack rising from north-side elevation. Roof set behind red brick parapet with granite coping and cast-iron guttering and plastic downpipes (to side elevations). Flat roof to rendered east block hidden behind parapet. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with flush yellow brick courses at sill and impost levels. Cement rendered east and north elevations. Roughcast cement rendered walls to east block. Gauged brick segmental-headed window openings with granite sills and boarded up windows. Square-headed window openings to east block with patent rendered reveals, granite sills and boarded up windows. Original shopfront comprises series of display windows with granite sills (now boarded up) on panelled red brick stall risers and chamfered granite plinth course, flanked by stop-chamfered red brick piers on granite bases with elaborate Portland limestone stiff-leaf capitals. Angled corner entrance bay with Kilkenny limestone column to corner, full-span stucco fascia with deeply moulded dentilled continuous cornice. Full-span ruled-and-lined render shopfront to east block with rendered fascia and hood cornice. Corner-sited at junction between Aungier Street and Diggs Street Upper.

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_3207 (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.