Land parcel 6205410

Area

340 m²

Buildings

7 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,276 m².

Zoning

M2 Z5: City Centre (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 9 Aug 2019Grant permission and rete

  PERMISSION & RETENTION: Planning permission for alterations to the existing second floor rooftop smoking area to the east eliminating this as a smoking area and providing a roof to enclose the area at Opium. It is also applying for retention permission for the reduced and partially covered smoking area in the centre of the second floor of Opium and retention permission for (a) connections between 37/38 Camden Row and Opium, (b) change of use from keg room to seated area at 37 Camden Row, and (c) the use of the ground floor internal yard to the north of 37/38 Camden Row as a smoking / outdoor area.

  Retention permission · Dublin City Council, 3711/19

• 18 Apr 2019Refuse permission

  Planning permission for a new opening / connection to the external yard of 38 Camden Row which is to the south of the existing Opium garden bar at ground floor level together with a change of use of the external yard to a smoking area. All at Opium, 26 Wexford Street, Dublin 2, D02 HX93 and 13/14 Liberty Lane, Dublin 8, D08 NF86 & 38 Camden Row D08 Y1FN.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2812/19

• 3 Apr 2019Refuse retention permissi

  RETENTION: Retention permission for the relocation and reconfiguration of a pitched roof constructed under previous planning grant ref. 6790/07 at second floor / rooftop together with relocation of water tanks and services to the bar / assembly recreation area at this level maintaining the open air arrangement and reducing the useable floor area of that previously granted from 245sqm to 140sqm.

  Retention permission · Dublin City Council, 2678/19

• 28 Feb 2019Application declared inva

  Planning permission for a new opening to the external yard to the rear (south) from the existing garden bar at ground floor level together with all associated works at Opium, 26 Wexford Street, Dublin 2, D02 HX93 and 13/14 Liberty Lane, Dublin 8, D08 HX93 and 13/14 Liberty Lane, Dublin 8, D08 NF86.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 2381/19

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 2 recorded monuments.

• DU018-020336 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Possible holy well described by Ó Danachair (1958, 233) as; 'a well which formerly existed near the corner of Montague Street and Camden Street was said to be dedicated to Saint Kevin, and to have served the ancient monastery [DU018-020971-] nearby. O'Hanlon (1873, vol.6, 89) recorded the following details about the location of St. Kevin's Well; 'In the kitchen of Mr. Donegan, a butcher, living at the corner of Montague Street, in the Parish of St. Nicholas, there is a stone trough, formerly belonging to St. Kevin's Well, and which was within the yard of that house. No surface remains visible. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 April 2023

• DU018-020647 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  No. 91 Lower Camden Street is probably a Dutch Billy with a cruciform roof structure (Colm Murray pers. comm. Feb.1998).

Architectural heritage

• Whelan's, house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay three-storey former house over concealed basement, built c. 1750, now in use as public house and having limestone pubfront of dated 1894 to front (east) elevation. M-profile roof, hipped to south, with red brick chimneystacks having clay pots, partly concealed behind red brick parapet having cut granite coping. Shared cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond. Square-headed window openings with cut granite sills and replacement windows. Pubfront comprises chamfered polished pink granite end pilasters, with similar colonette to north side of entrance, having carved limestone foliate capitals, scrolled console brackets surmounted by gablets with ball finials, flanking carved limestone fascia having incised lettering and numerals, and dentillated cornice with scalloped capping and central segmental pediment with date and topped by crown finial. Square-headed pub-window with replacement timber frame on carved stone sill having rope-moulding, atop stone stall-riser with panelled pilasters, on stone plinth course. Shouldered entrance opening, corners formed by capitals, with double-leaf timber battened door and paned overlight. Granite paviors to footpath to front, with steel door to basement. Interior has timber panelled bar and partitions, carved timber Victorian fire surrounds, over-mantle mirrors and cast-iron fireplaces.

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_3207 (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.