Land parcel 1734920

Area

1,025 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 596 m².

Zoning

M2 Z5: City Centre (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

• Parkgate Hall, hostel (charitable), 1875–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached nine-bay two-storey over basement and with half-dormer attic former soldiers' institute, dated 1880. Now in use as offices. Gables over paired end bays and wider central bay, single-storey central porch. Pitched slate roof, with pierced ridge crestings, aluminium gutter and downpipe, and single chimneystack to east having three terracotta pots. Walling is Flemish bonded brickwork with gauged brick detailing, including corbelled eaves cornice, raked to gables, string courses and chamfered sandstone course over basement. Square-headed window openings throughout, with ornate gauged brick architrave surrounds rising to foliate panels above ground floor windows, and pedimented entablatures to first floor gable windows. Replacement uPVC windows throughout, with moulded bracketed sandstone sills to ground floor windows, with continuous sill course to first floor. Roundels to outer gables, and Diocletian window to central gable at attic level. Brick porch with pierced parapet contains round-headed voussoired window openings to either side containing square-headed windows with carved sandstone tympanum panel over. Round-headed entrance opening with voussoirs, impost mouldings and dated sandstone tympanum panel reading 'Soldiers' Institute / A.D. 1880', with double-leaf fretwork-panelled timber doors. Opens directly onto street, with basement well bounded by painted cast-iron railing, having steps to east.

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 gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3179 (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.