COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, February 04, 2016

MOTION NO. 177

MOTION: Councillor E. Ó Broin

To include Mount St Jerome Cemetery, Monastery Heath, Monastery Road in the Record of Protected Structures (RPS) of the County Development Plan

REPORT:

As part of the review of the Draft Plan, South Dublin County Council commissioned an independent review of its Record of Protected Structures, with a view to identifying structures that merit addition or deletion.

Saint Joseph’s Cemetery was not included in the review given that it had previously been inspected by South Dublin County Council’s Architectural Conservation Officer but was considered to not have sufficient architectural interest to merit inclusion on the RPS.

Further to (inter alia) the subject motion, an additional supplementary independent assessment has been commissioned as an addendum to the ‘Review of Record of Protected Structures 2014/15’ (2015), which includes Mount St. Joseph’s Graveyard. The supplementary assessment of the site was carried out on foot of its local historical interest and by an independent consultant who had the resources to carry out a full historical appraisal.

The supplementary assessment advises that Mount St. Joseph’s Graveyard is of historic and social significant and should therefore be added to the Record of Protected Structures.

Recommendation

It is recommended that this motion is adopted with amendment.

Map and include Mount St. Joseph’s Graveyard, Monastery Road, in the County Development Plan’s Record of Protected Structures.