Land parcel 6085878

Area

585 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,098 m².

Zoning

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

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 6 Jul 2026Registered application

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Abbey international Finance limited, intend to apply to, Dublin City Council for permission for development at 76 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, D02 Y76. The site is a Protected Structure (Record of Protected Structures Ref. 5174) Located within a Conservation Area (Zone Z8) . The development consists of the removal of stud infill within the existing arch, between the two ground floor rooms, the installation of slim profile glazed steel doors within the arched opening, and repointing of brickwork to the front facade. All in accordance with conservation specifications.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 5166/26

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, 1785–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1790, having bow to western two bays of rear and two-storey addition to third bay. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof to front, hipped to east end, behind brick parapet with granite coping, and two hipped roofs to rear perpendicular to street, larger to bow. Brick chimneystack to west with clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods to rear elevation. Partly Mansard roof and partly hipped slate roof to addition. Flemish bond red brick walls to front elevation on granite plinth course over painted rendered walls to basement; yellow brick walls to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals and painted granite sills; carved granite block-and-start surrounds with wrought-iron grilles to basement. Replacement timber sliding sash windows to front elevation, three-over-three pane to top floor and one-over-one pane elsewhere; rear having older timber sash windows, bow having three-over-three pane to top floor, six-over-six pane to second floor and nine-over-six pane to first floor, and third bay having replacement windows. Elliptical-headed principal doorway has rendered linings, fluted frieze and cornice, engaged Ionic columns with respond pilasters framing decorative leaded sidelights, petal fanlight and ten-panel timber door with brass furniture. Granite platform with five bull-nosed granite steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative cast-iron posts on carved granite plinth. Cast-iron coal-hole covers set in granite flags to footpath. Recent two-bay two-storey building on site of former mews house to Fitzwilliam Lane. carparking 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.