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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

QUESTION NO. 1

QUESTION: Councillor Eoin Ó Broin

"The ruin of the Sally Park Gunpowder Mill stood in Clondalkin for over 200 years on Mill Lane. It was demolished under mysterious circumstances sometime in the last twenty five years. Is there anything on record in the files or archives of SDCC which can indicate on whose authorisation the ruin was demolished and for what reasons? On the SDCC Planning Applications interactive map the site is listed as Old Mill Site and Mill Pond Apartments. See two photos of the Mill attached before it was demolished."

REPLY:

The Planning Department have reviewed the recent electronically available planning history (since 2000) and haven’t identified a planning application that permitted the demolition of ruins at the location of Mill Pond Apartments. Any further information available, including maps, would help with a future, more extensive, planning history.