Land parcel 6070278

Area

2,015 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 282 m².

Zoning

R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

• Phibsboro Library, library/archive, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey public library, dated 1934, with lean-to return to rear (north) elevation. Hipped tiled roof with roof-light to rear span and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in English Garden Wall bond, limestone plinth course, limestone entablature and overhanging cornice supporting profiled cast-iron gutter. Cement rendered walls to return. Square-headed window openings with red brick voussoirs, red brick reveals, terracotta sills and recessed herringbone brick panels and multiple-pane cast-iron windows with fixed-pane pivots to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with cement rendered reveals, limestone sills and multiple-pane cast-iron windows to return. Round-headed porch opening with dressed stone voussoirs and keystone framed by brick piers supporting limestone entablature with name plaque, concrete dentillated cornice with date plaque over. Panelled timber double-leaf door with margin lights and fanlight. Granite platform and steps. Early-twentieth-century interior joinery to shelving and internal doors, glazed roof-lights with stained-glass margins. Set in landscaped grounds on site of infilled Broadstone Branch of the Royal Canal. Mild steel railings on concrete plinth.

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_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.

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.