Land parcel 5496123

Area

206 m²

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 881 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

• 6 Aug 2025Grant permission

  The development will consist of: (i) Replacement of existing, non-original shop front with new painted hardwood shop front, stone plinth and restoration of historic signage; (ii) Replacement of non-original PVC windows at upper floors (first, second and third) with traditional hardwood vertical sliding sash windows with thin double-glazed units; (iii) Tinting of non-original Flemish bond brick to the third-floor façade. (iv) Replacement of concrete paving to footpath with native granite stone.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB2836/25

• 13 Jun 2023Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE:PERMISSION: For development at Reilly's Bar, No. 17 Merrion Street Upper, Dublin 2, (a Protected Structure Ref. 5211). The proposed development will consist of the following: (i) replacement of existing non-original shop front with new painted hardwood shop front and associated fascia signage; (ii) replacement of projecting corner signage at first floor level with new signage; (iii) replacement of non-original top-hung PVC windows at upper floors (first, second and third) with traditional hardwood vertical sliding sash windows with thin doubler glazed units.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3943/23

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

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay four-storey building over concealed basement, built c. 1790 with recent timber frontage to ground floor. Now in use as public house. Pitched tiled roof to front pile behind refaced brick parapet with granite coping, and flat roof to rear, having shouldered rendered chimneystacks with clay pots, and with cast-iron downpipe to east end with decorative hopper. Flemish bond brown brick walls, top floor recently reconstructed in red brick, and having pattress plates to upper floors. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals, granite sills and replacement uPVC windows. Interior has chimneybreast with marble chimneypiece to west wall, otherwise recent. Almost fully abutted to rear.

• House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790, having single-bay elevation to south, and wrap-around shop-front. In use as public house. Hipped slate roof, behind brick parapet with granite coping, having shouldered rendered chimneystack to west party wall with sixteen clay pots. Flemish bond brown brick walls, with S-shaped pattress plates between upper floors of Merrion Row elevation. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with patent reveals, painted granite sills and replacement uPVC windows; window to top floor of south elevation being blind. Mid-twentieth-century pubfront to ground floor, having square-headed timber panelled door, and timber display windows on rendered stall-risers. Cellar doors to pavement. Interior has traditional style public house decoration. Fully abutted to rear.

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_3234 (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.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

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.