Land parcel 2256867

Area

16,651 m² (1.67 ha, 4.11 acres)

Buildings

10 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 6,175 m².

Zoning

G3 Landscape Preservation Zones (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 16 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission for the change of use of an existing building from office use to classrooms and associated educational use. The building area subject to the change of use is the ground floor of the existing two storey Coach Building, the existing single storey Anvil Building with attached toilet block, and the existing two storey Gallery Building, all part of an enclosed courtyard structure.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2140503

• 7 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a new single storey detached classroom to be associated with the existing Bessborough Creche including all associated site works,

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2140481

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• CO074-077 Country house
  Description

  Mid 18th century 3-storey house overlooking Douglas Estuary to S; 3 bays deep. Entrance front (S) of 7 bays, 3-bay central breakfront, pedimented with oculus. Central door with fanlight, pedimented; central Venetian window at 1st floor, central Diocletian window at 2nd floor; limestone surrounds around all three opes. Sash windows decrease in size with height, prominent limestone keystone. Rendered walls with cut limestone band course, quoins and cornice exposed. Hipped roof with central valley. Numerous additions to rear. Victorian conservatory on W elevation. Farmbuildings to N, now been converted to heritage centre. Ice house (CO074-051---) to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• Bessborough, country house, 1755–1765 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay (three-bay deep) three-storey over basement country house, built 1760, on a square plan centred on three-bay three-storey pedimented breakfront. Sold, 1922, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped slate roof on an E-shaped plan with rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having cornices below capping supporting terracotta pots. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners supporting bitumen felt-covered cut-limestone cornice. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of five bull nose-detailed cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone doorcase with rusticated pilasters on plinths supporting ogee-detailed open bed pediment on fluted consoles framing timber panelled door having overlight. Venetian window (first floor) with cut-limestone sill on fluted consoles, and cut-limestone surround with monolithic mullions supporting ogee-detailed cornice on frieze on architrave framing replacement uPVC windows. Diocletian window (top floor) with cut-limestone sill, monolithic mullions, and cut-limestone archivolt framing replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with cut-limestone double keystones framing one-over-one timber sash windows (ground floor) or replacement uPVC windows (upper floors). Set in landscaped grounds with cut-limestone cylindrical piers to perimeter having beaded cornices below fluted dome finial-topped capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double 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.

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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.