Land parcel 1725332
Registered freehold, where the statutory boundaries draw no townland, as in the centres of Dublin, Cork and Galway
Parcel 1725332
- Area
- 3,736 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 1,598 m².
- Zoning
- S5 Z15: Community and Social Infrastructure (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
G5 Z9: Amenity/Open Space Lands/Green Network (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
- Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary, church/chapel, 1950–1955 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height red brick Roman Catholic church, dated 1954, having single-bay full-height chancel to south-west, full-height narthex to north-east (entrance) elevation, full-height transepts, with flat-roofed entrance porches to re-entrant corners, and confessional projections to both elevations of nave. Square-plan five-stage bell tower to south corner, and full-width sacristy to chancel elevation. Pitched slate roofs having cut limestone copings, eaves course, cross finials and copper rainwater goods. Pyramidal copper roof with metal cross finial to bell tower. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond over chamfered granite plinth, having cut stone platband to narthex. Carved stone cross to chancel façade. Round-headed shouldered lancet windows with cut granite surrounds, some having leaded stained glass, with tripartite arrangement to transepts. Round-headed triple-light window in recessed blind arch to entrance bay, having cut and carved granite tracery and surround. Square-headed windows to entrance elevation, sacristy and side chapel and tower, round-headed windows to porches, having cut granite surrounds. Unglazed round-arched openings to belfry. Square-headed door openings with cut granite dressings, timber panelled doors, some leaded overlights and cut granite steps, flanked by integral carved marble fonts. Interior with altar to south-west having carved marble altar furniture, including raised pulpit. Gallery over main entrance, having timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf doors with leaded overlights. Coffered ceilings, barrel-vaulted over nave. Timber panelled recessed confessionals and carved timber pews. Side altars to transepts. Set in own grounds, bounded by red brick plinth walls with steel railings, having steel entrance gates with red brick piers. Elevated on raised concrete platform at Walkinstown Green, accessed by curved steps to main entrance and ramped paths to side entrances.
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_3151 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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.