Land parcel 1873175

Area

5,992 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres)

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,762 m².

Zoning

R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
S5 Z15: Community and Social Infrastructure (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
R2 Z12: Institutional Land (Future Development Potential) (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 Our Lady of Mercy, church/chapel, 1965–1970 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Modernist Catholic church, built 1968, aligned east-west but having altar at west end of eight-bay nave, single-storey square-plan cloister at northwest with campanile. Flat felted roofs with shallow pitch to gable ends and concealed rainwater goods, having copper sheeting to eaves and to single-storey roofs. Sand-lime brick walls, with recessed entrance vestibule to east facade with two slim full-height rectangular-plan columns. Narrow full-height square-headed window openings deeply recessed between bay piers, having concrete sills and battered aprons behind steel railings at ground level and containing coloured leaded lights with secondary glazing; large west window in entrance vestibule. Principal entrance comprising square-headed doorway below glazed course and flush concrete fascia, having trio of timber sheeted doors; doors open onto flagged platform with steps to plaza with steel railings; secondary entrances below windows of first nave bays, having square-headed openings with recessed timber sheeted door and overlight, steel gates and access ramps. Cloister containing parish rooms. Campanile has lettering 'Our Lady of Mercy Church Est. 1968' elevated on south side and pierced square-headed belfry surmounted by cross. Set in open yards to east and west with gardens to north and south, formerly public, now enclosed with extensive steel fencing. Single-volume interior with slim square-plan piers, deeply coffered nave ceiling and generous stained-glass lights. Plain west wall with elevated crucifix, carpeted sanctuary on semi-circular plan raised on two steps with simple granite altar furniture having tabernacle to south side and font apart to north. Brick piers closed by timber and glazing form vestibule to west end supporting organ gallery. Timber pews and carpeted floor. Stations of the Cross to organ gallery frontal and nave piers with miscellaneous other devotional artwork.

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_3253 (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.