Land parcel 5826612

Area

2,232 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)

Buildings

6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 7,167 m².

Zoning

R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
O2 Z8: Georgian Conservation Areas (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 9 Feb 2024Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: the proposed development relates solely to the sports hall located to the south-east of the overall landholding, which is within the curtilage of the protected structures. No works are proposed to any designated protected structures. The development will principally consist of a 168.8 sq m extension to the building comprising a lateral extension 82.6 sq m along the south western elevation at ground floor level and a vertical extension of 86.2 sq m along the north western elevation at first floor level (no change to maximum height of the building); reconfiguration of the internal layout; general elevational changes; replacement of roof and rooflights; plant including new heat pumps on the north-eastern elevation of the building and all associated site works above and below ground.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3171/24

• 26 May 2023Grant permission

  Permission to install temporally a low tac vinyl design to the east and north facade of our premises. The design by the artist Maser would be for a period of six months from September 18th 2023 to January 14th 2024.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3836/23

• 18 Oct 2019Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission for the restoration and refurbishment of the front facades of Loreto College, No's 53, 54 and 55 St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2 all of which are Protected Structures. The works will consist of the following; (1) No. 53 St. Stephens Green- existing cementitious pointing to be carefully raked out of brickwork and stonework, careful steam cleaning and lime mortar repointing of the brickwork and parapet stonework to front façade and low wall to front railings, careful removal and reinstatement of front steps to main entrance, refurbishment of sash windows where required, repainting of plastered walls and all wrought iron railings, (2) No. 54 St. Stephens Green - existing cementitious pointing to be carefully raked out of brickwork and stonework, careful steam cleaning and lime mortar repointing of the brickwork and stonework to front façade and low wall to front railings, refurbishment of sash windows where required, refurbishment of feature surrounds to 6no. windows located at ground and first floor levels, repainting of plastered walls and all wrought iron railings, (3) No. 55 St. Stephens Green - careful steam cleaning of brickwork and stonework to front façade and low wall to front railings, refurbishment of sash windows where required, repainting of plastered walls and all wrought iron railings at Loreto College, No's 53, 54, and 55 St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2. No's 53, 54, and 55 St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2 are listed on the Dublin City Council Record of Protected Structures - Ref's 7786, 7787 and 7788 respectively.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4253/19

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 3 recorded monuments.

• DU018-238 Cross-slab (present location)
  Description

  This is the present location for TS075-023045-. Formerly situated at Toureen Peacaun monastery (TS075-023----) and currently located in National Monuments storage, Dublin. It is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 282-3) as a small slab (H c.0.27m; Wth c.0.23m; T c.0.04m) and is 'a complete, rectangular slab. The back of the slab is plain. Incised on the face is an outline Latin cross with a single, horizontal line of text below'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 36 (ibid.). It was uncovered during the 1987 excavation (Manning 1991, 211-2). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 February 2023

• DU018-239 Inscribed slab (present location)
  Description

  This is the present location for TS075-023046-. Formerly situated at Toureen Peacaun monastery (TS075-023----) and currently located in National Monuments storage, Dublin. It is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 283-4) as a small slab (H c.0.11m; Wth c.0.162m; T c.0.033m) and is 'a fragment of a slab of unknown form. The back of the stone is plain. A fragmentary text is incised on the face of the stone. The right hand edge of the stone is original'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 37 (ibid.). It was uncovered during the 1987 excavation (Manning 1991, 212). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 February 2023

• DU018-240 Cross-slab (present location)
  Description

  This is the present location for TS075-023047-. Formerly situated at Toureen Peacaun monastery (TS075-023----) and currently located in National Monuments storage, Dublin. It is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 285-6) as a small slab (H c.0.21m; Wth c.0.34m; T c.0.05m) and is 'a slab of irregular rectangular shape, possibly complete, although damaged at the left edge. The back is plain. Incised on the face is an outline Latin cross, open at the bottom. Above this is a horizontal line of text with further letters below. The face is badly abraded, especially on the left side, and portions of the cross and letters have delaminated'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 38 (ibid.). It was uncovered during the 1987 excavation (Manning 1991, 211-12). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 17 February 2023

Architectural heritage

• House, 1770–1775 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay four-storey former townhouse over basement, built 1771, with recessed northern bay. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with M-profiled hipped roof to rear (east) having chimneystacks to party walls; that to south rendered, that to north shouldered buff brick with lipped yellow clay pots. Roof concealed behind brick parapet with masonry coping. Concealed gutters with cast-iron hopper and downpipes breaking through to recessed northern bay. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond over rendered walling to basement with masonry stringcourse. Square-headed window openings with projecting masonry sill, patent reveals and brick voussoirs diminishing in height to upper floors. Six-over-six timber sliding sash windows with ogee horns, three-over-six to third floor. Window openings located beneath entrance platform with recessed surrounds and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed entrance door located to central bay with doorcase comprising Doric columns on plinth stops rising to open pediment with triglyphed frieze over cobwebbed fanlight with integrated lamp and twelve-panelled timber door with brass furniture opening onto granite entrance platform with flanking cast-iron bootscrapers and eight steps to street flanked by cast-iron railings on granite plinth with decorative corner posts enclosing basement areas to north and south. Plainly detailed square-headed entrance doors with tripartite toplights and recent timber doors located to north and south of entrance platform. Basement well accessed from street level by recent concrete steps with steel handrails. Street fronted onto eastern side of Saint Stephen's Green.

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_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.

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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.