Land parcel 1740489

Area

22,080 m² (2.21 ha, 5.46 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 3,092 m².

Zoning

S5 Z15: Community and Social Infrastructure (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 16 Mar 2022Grant permission

  The construction of a new vehicular and pedestrian entrance gate and a security office at the point at which the new Griffith Woods housing development avenue meets the southern campus boundary. The works will include stone wing walls, a vehicle turning zone, modification of adjacent boundaries, hard and soft landscaping, drainage, and ancillary works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1235/22

• 11 Mar 2022Application declared inva

  Marino Institute of Education intends to apply for permission for the construction of a new vehicular and pedestrian entrance gate and a security office at the point at which the new Griffith Woods housing development avenue meets the southern campus boundary. The works will include stone wing walls, a vehicle turning zone, modification of adjacent boundaries, hard and soft landscaping, drainage, and ancillary works at Marino Institute of Education, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1217/22

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

• Marino Institute Chapel, church/chapel, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached Catholic chapel with apse to north end, built 1900, located on second floor of former St. Mary's College (now serving Marino Institute of Education). Pitched slate roof with angled ridge tiles and curved slate roof to apse surmounted by iron finial, having original cast-iron rainwater goods, ashlar granite chimneystack to north with indented friezes, cornice caps and clay pots, astylar granite belfry to south with pediment and decorative metal cross, and copper bell. Rock-faced block-and-sneck granite walls with yellow brick quoins and cornice to apse, ashlar gable copings with moulded shoulder stones. Round-headed yellow-brick window openings with inset surrounds having stained-glass leaded lights. Chapel set above other college facilities in central north projection of E-plan college building, surrounded by small garden. Open neo-Classical interior with fluted Corinthian pilasters flanking chancel arch and nave window openings, with moulded entablature and stringcourse, ornamental coved ceiling above cornice with moulded panels divided by strings and decorated tympanums. Round-arch opening to apse with mosaic roundels to spandrels, having mosaic decoration and plaster ribs within. Raised sanctuary with marble and inlaid mosaic floor and having replacement altar furniture. Timber floor with mixture of timber pews and chairs, having individual stalls with timber Ionic decorations to south wall. Double round-headed doorway to south, leading from internal corridor, with timber doorcase to each side having partly fluted Doric pilasters on pedestals carrying pediment with frieze emblazoned 'Sacratissimo Cordi - Jesu DDD', and fielded six-panel timber doors with transom lights.

• Marino Institute of Education, college, 1890–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached thirteen-bay three-storey E-plan former Christian Brothers college, dated 1900, facing west, having single-bay pedimented breakfront and slightly projecting two-bay ends with canted-bay windows to ground floors, integral chapel, multiple-bay side elevations, that to north having four and six-bay sections separated by single-bay four-storey projection, and with single-storey service range of 1928 to north comprising four-bay and slightly lower two-bay sections. Now in use as further education college. Hipped slate roofs with angled ridge and hip tiles, original cast-iron rainwater goods and ashlar granite chimneystacks with indented friezes, cornice caps and clay pots; pitched slate roofs and roof lantern to single-storey range. Rock-faced block-and-sneck granite walls with granite quoins, limestone stringcourses, chamfered plinth, cornice to public elevations, yellow brick dressings to service elevations, pediment surmounted by urns flanking statue of Virgin Mary, and urns to parapet wall and bay windows. Front and south elevations have square-headed window openings to upper floors and round-headed to ground floor, with sills integral to moulded stringcourses, moulded architraves, moulded impost course and archivolts to ground floor, moulded cornices to first floor, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with plain fanlights; breakfront has trio of windows to top floor and Venetian arrangement to first floor with pediment to middle light; north elevation has similar window forms, but with simple chamfered block-and-start surrounds, some round-headed openings having one-over-one pane windows without fanlights, and upper floors to projection having margined windows; camber-headed openings with yellow brick surrounds to service elevations, with granite sills. Round-headed principal doorway to front elevation, set in limestone classical doorcase with Doric pilasters and architrave, timber door screen with double fielded six-panel door leaves, sidelights with panelled stall-risers, and having fanlights, opening onto four granite steps; secondary entrances to all elevations, including pedimented Doric doorcase to east elevation with fielded nine-panel timber door and four granite steps. Set in former schools grounds with trees, lawns and sports facilities, having miscellaneous recent school and educational buildings.

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_3232 (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.