Land parcel 6084240

Area

6,215 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

G5 Z9: Amenity/Open Space Lands/Green Network (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 2 Sept 2020Grant permission

  IPUT plc intend to apply for a seven-year planning permission for development at lands comprising Wilton Square, Dublin 2 and adjacent public roads. The proposed development involves amendments to indicative road works previously permitted under ABP 303706.19 and revised proposals for Wilton Square (the park), previously refused permission under ABP 303706.19. The proposed development includes the following elements: Wilton Square: (c.0.62 ha). The proposed development includes closure of an existing entrance and path leading from Wilton Terrace to the park fountain (including closing the existing gate and grassing over the path); creation of a new entrance and pathway from Wilton Terrace to the fountain to match its historic position (including the creation of an opening in the existing railings and plinth wall); restoration of the historic fountain in its current location; creation of two new entrances to the park (one from Wilton Terrace and one from Wilton Place, including the creation of new openings in the existing railings and plinth wall); removal of some low-level planting and trees and introduction of new low-level planting and trees; installation of new park furniture; installation of wayfinding lighting and all associated and ancillary development and site works above and below ground. Adjacent public roads: (c0.21 ha). The proposed development includes works to the adjacent public roads, including sections of Wilton Place, Wilton Terrace, Cumberland Road and Lad Lane. These works include road resurfacing and reconfiguration, changing Wilton Place (from Cumberland Road to the LinkedIn corner) to a one-way traffic system (northwards from Cumberland Road to LinkedIn); removal of 16 on-street car parking spaces (12 from Wilton Place, 3 from Lad Lane and 1 from Cumberland Road), reconfiguration of the Wilton Terrace/Cumberland Road/Wilton Place road junction, provision of pedestrian crossing areas, provision of three loading bays (one on Cumberland Road, one on Lad Lane and one on Wilton Place); all of the preceding to include all associated and ancillary development and site works above and below ground.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3300/20

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

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

Architectural heritage

• Fountain, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron fountain, erected c. 1841, comprising masonry plinth on square-plan granite-clad base, with two-tier circular-plan cast-iron troughs supported on columns topped by central finial with replacement stainless steel spout. Located to centre of flower bed, bordered by rendered circular-plan dwarf wall with granite coping. Terracotta tiled hardstandings to perimeter, extending along path to west. Sited within centre of triangular-plan park, bordered by Wilton Place to north-east and north-west, and Wilton Terrace and Grand Canal to south-east. Park lined by mature planting, with gravel perimeter path and bound by cast-iron railings over granite 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 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_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.