Swords Masterplan - Fingal County Council
Swords Masterplan - Fingal County Council
Swords Masterplan - Fingal County Council
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COMMERCIAL/RESIDENTIAL<br />
The North Street area has a strong and disti ncti ve streetscape of protected<br />
buildings dati ng from the late 19c to the early 20c. The buildings consist of fi ne<br />
frontages with disti ncti ve limestone and red brick detailing. The following<br />
Protected Structures include:<br />
Record No. Description<br />
346 Carnegie Library<br />
347/348 42-44 North Street<br />
349 Former New Borough Female School<br />
Structures of note include:<br />
346 <strong>Swords</strong> Carnegie Free Library<br />
The library is a detached three-bay two-storey yellow and red brick building built<br />
around 1908 with a projecting canted central bay. The walls consist of a limestone<br />
plinth course with a yellow brick laid in an English garden wall bond.<br />
349 Former New Borough Female School, <strong>Swords</strong>, <strong>Fingal</strong><br />
The training centre is a detached thirteen-bay single-storey former school built<br />
around 1890. The roof is double pitched roof with over hanging timber eaves<br />
supported by timber brackets with a natural slate roof and rendered chimney<br />
stacks. The openings are square headed windows with granite cills.<br />
347/348 42-44 North Street<br />
This pair of semi-detached three-bay two-storey former school residences were built<br />
around 1890 in the same fashion as the former teachers residence on Seatown Road.<br />
The roof is double pitched slate with projecting eaves and timber barge boards. The<br />
walls are coursed limestone rubble walls with a red brick chimney breast to gable wall.<br />
346<br />
347/348<br />
349<br />
346 347/348 349<br />
S W O R D S M A S T E R P L A N<br />
Schedule of Monuments and Records<br />
There are a number of monuments and places within <strong>Swords</strong> that are included in<br />
the Record of Monuments and Places (RMP) produced by the DoEHLG. These<br />
monuments and places are afforded statutory protection under Section 12 of the<br />
National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994 and Policy 133 and 137 of the GCDP<br />
2003-2009. Section 12 (3) of the above Act requires that any interference/work to a<br />
known archaeological site should be notified in writing to the Minister two months<br />
prior to the commencement of work.<br />
The following provides a list of the Record of Monuments and Places within<br />
<strong>Swords</strong> Town Centre:<br />
SMR No. Classification<br />
DU011-034002 Ecclesiastical Enclosure<br />
DU011-034003 Graveyard<br />
DU011-034004 Church<br />
DU011-034005 Round Tower<br />
DU011-034006 Cross<br />
DU011-034007 Cross-Slab<br />
DU011-034008 Sheela-Na-Gig<br />
DU011-034009 Graveslab<br />
DU011-034010 Graveslab<br />
DU011-034014 Architectural Fragment<br />
DU011-034017 Burial<br />
DU011-034018 Burial Ground<br />
DU011-034001 Castle – Anglo-Norman<br />
DU011-034012 Mill – Unclassified<br />
DU011-070 Font<br />
0 25m<br />
100m<br />
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Includes Ordnance Survey Ireland data reproduced under OSI Licence No. 2003/07/CCMA/<strong>Fingal</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Council</strong>. © Ordnance Survey Ireland, 2006.<br />
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Development Block Size<br />
THE RETAIL/COMMERCIAL CORE<br />
<strong>Swords</strong> Town Centre block layout is typically organic in form and layout,with a<br />
variety of block sizes. As a result they exhibit a human scale and finer pedestrian<br />
grain, with a choice of interconnecting streets and routes.<br />
Example of block sizes that exist within the Town Centre vary in dimension east<br />
and west of the Main Street. To the west they are typically 80m in depth and 140m<br />
wide. In contrast the east of the Main Street displays proportions in the range of<br />
40m in depth by 50m wide.<br />
New block structures should include some flexibility and variation in size and<br />
shape, to promote the organic form of the Town Centre, whilst generally<br />
maintaining prevailing block dimensions.<br />
CIVIC/COMMUNITY CORE<br />
Example of block sizes that exist within the civic/community character area are<br />
similar in dimension to those west of the Main Street.<br />
COMMERCIAL/RESIDENTIAL<br />
Block sizes that exist within the commercial character are quite large in<br />
comparison to the character areas found at Main Street and Seatown Road.<br />
Typical Development Blocks Size<br />
0 25m<br />
100m<br />
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Includes Ordnance Survey Ireland data reproduced under OSI Licence No. 2003/07/CCMA/<strong>Fingal</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Council</strong>. © Ordnance Survey Ireland, 2006.