Land parcel 1678868
Registered freehold, where the statutory boundaries draw no townland, as in the centres of Dublin, Cork and Galway
Parcel 1678868
- Area
- 6,585 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,397 m².
- Zoning
- G5 Z9: Amenity/Open Space Lands/Green Network (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective - Townland
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Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Matthew's Church, church/chapel, 1970–1975 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding square-plan double-height Roman Catholic church, built 1974, with sacristy and side altars to west end, porch with canopy to east (entrance) elevation, and entrance porches with flanking confessionals to north and south elevations. Square-plan single-storey parish centre, built 1998, attached to north, curved corners to both church and parish centre. Flat roofs to church, having central square-profile lantern with pitched roof. Brown brick walls laid in stretcher bond. Metal-framed clerestory windows. Main entrance having timber-clad cantilever canopy and paired double-leaf glazed timber-battened doors with sidelights. Open plan to interior, side chapel to west of altar, separated from nave by sliding partition doors. Steps to altar. Timber clad piers supporting roof. Stained glass windows to roof lantern. Carved altar and pulpit, curved timber pews. Timber confessionals. Pyramidal roof, triangular-profile belfry, brown brick walls and clerestory windows to parish centre. Set in own grounds with steel railings on plinth walls to site boundary, having steel gates with rectangular-profile painted brick gate piers. Detached presbytery to west (nos.148A and 148B Blackditch Road).
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 rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3121 (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.
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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.