Land parcel 5501940

Area

9,520 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres)

Buildings

14 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 6,534 m².

Zoning

M2 Z5: City Centre (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
M3 Z4: Key Urban Villages/Urban Villages (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
C2.2 Z7: Employment (Heavy) (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 11 Nov 2024Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The proposed development comprises a 10 year permission for works to facilitate the decarbonisation of the brewery and water recovery on site. Demolition and removal of the Old Keg Plant Building and Export Warehouse (part single storey, part two storey buildings – 6,482m2) and associated works including removal of a section of a steel pipe bridge structure. Construction of an Energy Centre comprising a two storey building containing electrical boiler room LV, MCC and HV Rooms with a primary parapet height of 15.15m and including 3 no. flues to a height of 23.65m (28.1m O.D) and external plant compound (72m2) containing transformer equipment. The overall GFA of the Energy Centre (2) Building is c. 788m2. A blue roof (for rainwater attenuation) is proposed at roof level. Construction of a two-storey Water Recovery Plant (WRP) Building with a primary parapet height of 17.35m containing WRP plant and ancillary staff facilities. The overall GFA of the WRP Building is 1,576m2. A blue roof is proposed at roof level. The Water Recovery Plant also includes the following external plant elements: External Equalisation Tank with height of 13.25m including external access stairway; 2 no. Biogas Scrubbers with a height of 6.3m above parapet level and 1 no. emergency flare at a height of 7.5m above parapet level. 2 no. anaerobic treatment tanks to a height of c. 21m above ground level and external odour control plant. Aerobic treatment aeration tank to a height of 12.04m (+17.33 O.D.) with external access stairway, external renewable Biogas Balloon, other external items including ancillary plant / equipment, enclosing bund walls and circulation infrastructure. Demolition and removal of the former Flaking Plant (c. 46m / 11 storey equivalent in height) located centrally within the site (3,001m2), 1 no. two-storey prefabricated building, 1 no. single storey electrical distribution room, 6 no. single storey cabins / containers, vehicular concrete ramp and section of steel pipe bridge structure (691m2). Construction of a Utilities Hub comprising a proposed split-level building comprising a single storey structure (at lower ground level) ranging in height from 4.2m to 9.2m containing heat pumps, workshop, staff accommodation and ancillary plant, and a single-storey structure (at upper ground level) for use as Energy Centre (1) containing electrical boiler room to a height to parapet level of 8.72m, 2 no. flues to a height of 17.22m above upper ground level and including external plant compounds containing transformer equipment at the upper ground level (258m2), and 3 no. external vessels 15m in height at lower ground level. A blue roof is proposed at roof level. External stairs, ancillary site works, hard and soft landscaping are proposed. The Utilities Hub will comprise a GFA of c. 1,996.2m2. The proposed development includes associated site development works including hard and soft landscaping and the extension of new site services routes (both underground and above ground) including ancillary pipe racks, providing electrical and utilities infrastructure, above and below ground drainage. An additional 26 no. bicycle parking spaces are proposed. The application site is located in the curtilage of a number of Protected Structures. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the planning application and the EIAR and NIS will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy at the offices of the Planning Authority. The proposal is located within a site which has an approved IE (Industrial Emissions) Licence (Ref: P0301-04).

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB2472/24

• 27 Jun 2022Application declared inva

  The description of development is as follows: -Removal of existing fence through the site and development of a Nitrogen Generation Plant to produce nitrogen enriched gas for use in the production of beer at a site located centrally within the brewery site. The development will include a lattice style cold box Instillation tower to a height of c. 26 m, 2 no. cylindrical storage tanks to a height of c. 21m and plant and machinery for the production of nitrogen including a cold box vaporiser installation, a warm end installation, a Lin pump cold box installation, an expander module, cold valves, ambient vaporisers, final control skid and all other associated works. -A new fence around the proposed plant is also proposed. The proposal is located within a site which has an approved IE (Industrial Emissions) Licence (Ref.No. P0301-04).

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4322/22

• 16 Dec 2021Grant permission

  The proposed development will consist of a new extension to the existing beer processing plant to include a two storey building and six processing tanks. The proposed two storey extension has a total GFA of c. 1,024 sq.m and a building height to parapet level pof c. 14.4 m (20.9m OD). The building will be accessed via ground level doors and serviced through roller shutter doors on the southern elevation. The extension will be designed using new composite brown metal cladding similar to existing building materials within the brewery. The extension has a flat roof with a small plant area (c. 24 sq.m) screened by metal cladding panels and supportive steel frames. Six processing tanks c.24.52m (30.47m OD) are proposed to the north of the proposed extension. These tanks will be smaller than but visually match the existing tanks on site to the east. There will also be associated drainage connections to be made. The proposed development is located centrally within the brewery and is in accordance with the continued use of the site as a brewery. The proposal is located within a site which has an approved IE (Industrial Emissions) Licence (Ref No. P0301-04).

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4104/21

• 7 Dec 2021Application declared inva

  The proposed development will consist of a new extension to the existing beer processing plant to include a two storey building and six processing tanks. The proposed two storey extension has a total GFA of c.1,024 sq.m and a building height to parapet level of c. 14.4 m (20.9m OD). The building will be accessed via ground level doors and serviced through roller shutter doors on the southern elevation. The extension will be designed using new composite brown metal cladding similar to existing building materials within the brewery. The extension has a flat roof with a small plant area (c.24 sq.m) screened by metal cladding panels and supportive steel frames. Six processing tanks c.24.52m (30.47m OD) are proposed to the north of the proposed extension. These tanks will be smaller than but visually match the existing tanks on site to the east. There will also be associated drainage connections to be made. The proposed development is located centrally within the brewery and is in accordance with the continued use of the site as a brewery. The proposal is located within a site which has an approved IE (Industrial Emissions) Licence (Ref No. P0301-04)

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4020/21

• 1 Sept 2020Grant permission

  Planning permission is sought for erection of 7 no. internally illuminated light box signage. 1 no. 2.40m (W) x 0.85m (H) to left side & 1 no. 3.52m (W) x 0.85m (H) to right side of vehicular entrance gate on south west corner, 1 no. 1.00m (W) x 1.20m (H) above pedestrian entrance gate to south, 1 no. 1.10m (H) x 1.20m (W) above pedestrian entrance gate to south east site off of James's Street. 1 no. 2.80m (W) x 0.80m (H) to west, 1 no. 2.00m (W) x 0.80m (H) to centre & 1 no. 4.00m (W) x 0.80m (H) to east of south facing elevation to St. James's Medical Building.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3291/20

• 14 Feb 2020Grant permission

  Permission for proposed change of use to Pharmacy from existing Primary Care/Medical Centre use for a proportion of the ground floor (approximately 167m2) within the existing Guinness Medical Centre Building, James's Street, Dublin 8.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2270/20

• 4 Nov 2019Grant permission

  We, Diageo Ireland, intend to apply for planning permission for development within the existing Diageo brewery production facility at St. James's Gate, at a site centrally located within the St. James's Gate brewery lands bound by St James Street to the south, Watling Street to the east, Victoria Quay to the north and Steven's Lane to the west, Dublin 8. The development will consist of works to an existing industrial building accommodating kegging activities at the brewery comprising: a) Demolition of a single-storey cabin and panel cladding in the south-east corner of the site. b) Relocation of internal storage and welfare rooms at ground floor and internal office floorspace at first floor to a new location within the building on the southern elevation comprising office, workshops, storage, utilities, locker and changing facilities, lobbies and circulation space over ground and first floor. c) A new centrally located control and server room. d) Renovation and re-cladding of parts of the eastern, southern and western elevations comprising: (i) alterations to the eastern elevation including: re-cladding; the infilling of windows and a door; and the provision of a new external access ladder. (ii) alterations to the southern elevation including: external covered stairs to first floor level; re-cladding; new entrance doors including two louvred shutter doors and a smaller louvred goods door; two new windows; ventilation louvres; a canopy above the main pedestrian entrance door; ramped pedestrian access to the south of the building to provide level access as well as a small storage building with canopy above; and gantry style piperack to extend from the southern elevation to connect with the existing piperack. (iii) alterations to the western elevation including: re-cladding ; and the provision of an external access ladder. e) A new parapet and railing at roof level on the southern elevation and part of the eastern and western elevations. f) All other associated works. The proposed development is located within a site which has an approved IE (Industrial Emissions) Licence (Ref No. P0301-04).

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4358/19

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 9 recorded monuments.

• DU018-020346 Church
  Description

  Present 19th-century disused C of I church now part of the Pearse Lyons Distillery was believed to have been built on the site of the medieval parish church and cemetery of St. James the Apostle on land donated by Henry Tirel c. 1190, which was granted to St Thomas's Augustinian Abbey congregation of St. Victor c. 1196 (Gilbert 1889, 383; Clarke 2002, 18). However on the de Gomme 1673 Map of Dublin, the church is depicted standing on a plot of land which appears to match the plot land to the W of the present 19th century church close to the house (DU018-440----) on the corner of Steeven's Lane and Bow Lane West. If the 1673 map is correct the site of the medieval St James's Church stood between the 19th century church and the house on the corner of Steeven's Lane. The church of St James the Apostle was under the patronage of the Archbishop of Dublin and had been granted to the abbots and canons of St. Thomas the Martyr (White 1941, 181). In 1540 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the possessions of the Augustinian abbey of St. Thomas called Thomas Courte near Dublin included the 'Rectory of St. James in the suburbs. Tithes, 2 copp. [couples of grain), 26.s. 8.d. Altarages, 53.s. 4.d. Total, 4. li. All leased to John Butteler chaplain, for life, without rent' (White 1943, 29). In 1948 the Church of Ireland church on St James Street was described as follows; 'The parish is of very great antiquity, though by 1707 we find it united with Kilmainham as part of St Catherine's. In that year it was separated, and a new church erected. This church was long, low and narrow, and survived till 1861, when the present church was built from the designs of J. Welland. It is an unpretentious but not very interesting building, cruciform, with a SW spire and a small W gallery. The arcading between nave and S aisle is not without merit. In the tower lobby is an interesting mural tablet of 1691-1693 [DU018-471----] and against the N wall inside, two good examples of the XVIIIth century. The church plate is for some reason now in St Catherine's. The parish records (unprinted) go back to 1736. Curious ceremonies with cut paper shapes were formerly observed in the graveyard during St James's Fair. Toby Butler, who framed the Articles of Limerick, is buried here beneath an ivy-grown monument. The church is almost entirely surrounded by Guinness's Brewery, and owing to the absence of a sexton, it is very rarely open' (Wheeler and Craig 1948, 21). St James' Parish Church site was described in the Urban Survey of Dublin City as follows; 'The precise foundation date of this church is unknown but the earliest reference to it occurs during the episcopate of John Comyn (1181-1212), when it formed part of the property of St Thomas' abbey. Comyn fixed its parochial boundaries as Newgate on the east and the land of Kilmainham on the west, while excepting the area around Francis Street (McNeill 1950, 31-2). Archbishop Bulkeley described it as ruined in his visitation of 1630. Almost entirely surrounded by Guinness' Brewery the present church was built in 1861' (Bradley & King 1987, Vol. 2, 113). Church was described by Ní Mharcaigh (1997, 276) as follows; 'In 1192 the church of St James was granted to the Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr near Dublin as a parish church (Ronan 1941, 13-14). A new church, built in 1707, collapsed in 1761 (Costello 1989, 207). There is no known description of this church. The site is occupied by a nineteenth-century church building, now used as a commercial lighting emporium. The old graveyard (DU018-474----), which has some sixteenth-century burials, surrounds it on three sides'. Saint James's Church, James's Street, Dublin 8, was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height former Church of Ireland church, dated 1861, comprising three-bay nave, gabled chancel to east, gabled transepts to north and south elevations, square-profile four-stage entrance tower to south-west of nave, vestry to south of chancel, and side-aisle with pitched roof to south of nave. Subsequently in use as shop, now disused. The parish of Saint James dates to the twelfth century, and the predecessor of the current church was erected on this site in 1707, with some of the original foundations re-used for this building. It was designed by Joseph Welland, who had been architect to the Board of First Fruits and later to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and was built by Thomas Henry Carroll. The spire was removed in 1948 and the church was deconsecrated in 1963, and the parish united with Saint Catherine’s to the east. The graveyard to the rear of the site, which dates from the sixteenth century, provides contextual interest' (https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/50080312/saint-jamess-church-jamess-street-dublin-8-dublin; NIAH reg. No. 50080312). See attached section of Rocque's 1756 Map of Dublin City showing St James' Church and graveyard to the N. See attached section of 1673 Map of Dublin showing the location of St James's Church - © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London De Gomme, B. 1673 The citty and suburbs of Dublin from Kilmainham to Rings-End, werein the rivers, streets, lanes, allys, churches, gates &c are exactly described 15th No. 1673. P/49(11). © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Costello, P. 1989 Dublin churches. Dublin. Gill and Macmillan. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 June 2023

• DU018-440 House - 18th century
  Description

  A two-bay, four-storey-over-basemen end-of-terrace former house with a frontage of c. 9.6m with a widening plot of c. 14m to the rear, and c.14m height to top of front parapet. The external chimneystack, bowed extension, arched ground floor window, open-well staircase with ramped handrail, and unusual plan form suggest an early date.

• DU018-468 Well
  Description

  The Obelisk Fountain (NIAH Reg. No. 50080307) on the W end of James's Street opposite St James' Church (DU018-020346-) was locally believed to have been built on the site of the medieval St James' Well that was described in 1610 (Branigan 2012, 82). However the fountain stands 320m W of St. James's Gate and this location does not match the description of the well in the 1620 lease to James Veldon which states that the well was around 14m away from the medieval gate. A medieval well (DU018-020055-) to the S of St. James's Gate matches the location described in the 1620 lease. In 1620 the Dublin Assembly Rolls recorded that; 'James Veldon, tanner, shall have a lease for tearme of fourscore and nyneteene yeares uppon a voyd plott of ground without Saint James gate [DU018-020035-], on the north side thereof, bonding from the said gate to a howse which the said James houldeth neere thereunto, contayneing in breadth from the said gate in the east to the said howse in the west twentie three foote [7m], and in the sowth and north end twentie eight foote [8.5m], and in length from the said gate in the sowth to the well called Saint James well in the north fortie five foote [13.7m] at the yearelie rent of twentie shillinges, sterling current mony in England (CARD Vol. 3, 127). The fountain was described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'Freestanding drinking fountain, erected 1790, comprising fluted Portland stone obelisk with projecting block and oval sundials to each face, ball finial to top, set on painted masonry plinth having carved human masks to each elevation, cast-iron wall-fountains to north, south and west elevations, plaque to east elevation. Surrounded by cast-iron bollards. Restored 1995' (www.builginsofireland.ie) Cross-reference with DU018-020055- Branigan, G. 2012 Ancient and Holy Wells of Ireland. The History Press Ireland. Dublin. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 April 2023

• DU018-471 Armorial plaque
  Description

  Late 17th-century armorial plaque in the lobby of the tower of St James' Parish Church (DU018-020346-) described in the Urban Survey of Dublin City as follows; 'Mark Ranford. 1693. In the tower lobby. Mural plaque with achievement of arms and inscription below: THIS MONUMENT ERECTED BY MARK RANFORD OF THE CITY OF' DUBLIN ALDERMAN WHERE IN' THE VAULT LIETH THE BODIES OF 5 OF HIS CHILDREN ALSO THE BODY OF ALDER'MAN GILES MEE WHO DEPARTED THE 18 DAY OF JUNE 1691 AGED 63 YEARS IN THE YEAR HE WAS THEN LORD MAYER OF THIS CITY OF DUBLIN AND ALSO THE' BODY OF Mrs MARK RANFORD WIFE TO ALDERMan' MARK RANFORD WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 11th DAY OF NOVEMBER 1693 AGED 36 YEARS' (Bradley & King 1987, Vol. 2, 114). See attached drawing by Miss C. L. Long of the Ranford mural plaque taken from the Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, 239. Anon. 1898-1900 St James' Parish. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 4, 239. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 June 2023

• DU018-472 Tomb - chest tomb
  Description

  17th-century chest-tomb located inside St James' Parish Church (DU018-020346-) that was described by Thomas Dineley as follows; 'St. James hath besides the above monument of my Lord of Tarrah, the following, with these arms and Inscripcon: [Arms] Here under lyeth interr'd the body of Thomas Waterhouse, late Alderman of the city of Dublin, also the bodies of his beloved wives Rose and Anne; the sayd Alderma departed this life the 17 day of february Anno Domini mdclxiv [1664]. Virtus Post Funera Vivit' (Ball 1913, 293). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 June 2023

• DU018-473 Graveslab
  Description

  17th-century memorial located inside St James' Parish Church (DU018-020346-) that was described by Thomas Dineley as follows; 'In the same Church is also this monument and Inscription : Here lyeth the body of [Anthony] Stoughton of the city of Dublin, Esqr, sometimes clerk of his Maties High court of Chancery Starr-Chamber in this Kingdome, who having bin officer thereof for the space of [forty] yeers together ended this life the 5th of September Anno Domini mdcxxvi [1626], being the 82 yeer of his age; as also the body of his dear and loving wife Margaret Stoughton who deceased the 17 day of May in the year of our Lord God mdcxxxiii [1633], being the 67 yeer of her age, for whose memory this monument was erected.' (Ball 1913, 293). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 June 2023

• DU018-474 Graveyard
  Description

  Rectangular-shaped graveyard (dims. 96m N-S x 60m E-W) to the N of St James' Parish Church (DU018-020346-) which is enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall. Described by Ní Mharcaigh (1997, 276) as; 'The old graveyard, which has some sixteenth-century burials, surrounds it on three sides'. See attached section of Rocque's 1756 Map of Dublin City showing St James' Church and graveyard to the N Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 June 2023

• DU018-539 Barracks
  Description

  James’s Street Barracks   An 18th-century barracks on James's 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; ‘The James’s Street Barracks was situated in a converted eighteenth-century soldier’s infirmary and was one of a whole series of short-lived barracks established in reaction to the 1798 Rebellion and the ongoing wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. In 1801, its capacity was for six officers and 200 soldiers while in 1812-13 it was recorded as being able to accommodate six infantry officers and 180 infantrymen. The barracks was a leasehold. It was temporarily closed in 1818 but in use again in 1824. By 1848 it was described as an old barracks. There is no evidence of the original building, and the entire site is now part of the Guinness brewery'.   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

• LE036-010 Crannog
  Description

  Located close to the S shore of Errew Lough, an oval lake (dims c. 900m NNW-SSE; c. 500m WNW-ESE), which is on the N-S Cloone River, also known in this area as the Lurga River. An island is marked only on an estate map (Wogan 1750, 22). No crannog is evident in the lake but it might be incorporated in the shore. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3179 (ZIP).

Flooding

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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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