Land parcel 2240503

Area

2,294 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 1,180 m².

Zoning

R2 Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 14 Mar 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a new entrance gate and piers at 'Suncroft', Model Farm Road, Cork, T12T9F6, and also to erect a 1.8m high plastered and capped block wall along the shared boundary of their driveway and the Church of Descent of the Holy Spirit, a protected structure (ref. PS958), together with all associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2543722

• 6 Oct 2022Conditional

  Permission to demolish existing detached garage and single-storey extension at 'Suncroft', Model Farm Road, Cork, T12T9F6, and to construct new single and two-storey extensions to the east and west, and a single-storey detached garage incorporating a home office, together with all associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2241458

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 Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1955–1965 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Latin-cross plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1956-60, having flanking five-stage towers to front (east) elevation, four-bay nave, dome to transept crossing, flat roofed entrance porches to north and south elevations, flat roof sacristy to south elevation and full-height apse and semi-circular outshoots to west elevation. Pitched copper roof hidden behind parapet. Copper roof to dome with lantern surmounted by cross to apex. Copper to roofs of flanking towers with gilded finials surmounted by crosses. Ashlar granite walls to east elevation with ashlar limestone round-arched double-height panel. Red brick to other elevations and cupola. Ashlar limestone walls to flanking towers. Round-headed lancet-style window openings grouped under render hood mouldings and having moulded render surrounds and stained glass. Rose window with cut limestone surround and stained glass to east elevation. Round-headed window openings set in recessed panels to cupola with render surrounds and stained glass. Square-headed openings to towers. Round-headed openings to top stages of towers with one-over-one timber sash windows. Round-headed door openings set in recessed cut limestone surrounds with double-leaf timber battened doors to front elevation. Square-headed-door openings to side porches with cut limestone surrounds and timber battened doors. Interior with vaulted render ceiling, mosaic to apse depicting the 'Descent of the Holy Spirit', carved marble altar furniture, shallow round-headed side altars and organ gallery with stucco decoration to parapet wall. Moulded render ceiling to cupola representing ‘Eye of God’. Entrance to east comprising octagonal cut limestone piers flanking vehicular and pedestrian gateways with steel gates.

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 5 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.