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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, June 09, 2025

QUESTION NO. 22

QUESTION: Councillor J. Spear

Can the Chief Executive please give an update on identifying Public Rights of Way in the County? Please include any current maps or lists of areas that the Council has identified.

REPLY: 

The only area currently identified as a public right of way is set out in the County Development Plan 2022-2028.  This is described in section 9.9.1, Table 9.3 as follows:

Lucan Weir

From the Main Road in the Village running down the slip (Watery Lane) between the old St. Andrew’s national school house to the west and a commercial building to the east leading to the River Liffey walkway, as far as the western side of the Liffey bridge to exit at street level on the southern side of the bridge.

This public right of way is then identified on the Green Infrastructure Map 13 or it can be zoomed into on the Development Plan interactive map Adopted Development Plan, as below where it is shown by the dashed black line running from Main Street in Lucan down to the Liffey and around to the bridge.  The identification of further public rights of way is on the Planning Department’s work programme but as noted previously they are difficult to establish given the fact that they are rarely registered with Tailte Éireann (previously Land Registry) and their existence is difficult to prove legally.

See also map attached