Land parcel 2481148

Area

157,181 m² (15.72 ha, 38.84 acres)

Buildings

7 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,996 m².

Zoning

G3 Landscape Preservation Zones (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective
R2 Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective
R1 New 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

• 31 Oct 2019Conditional

  Permission for retention of domestic garage with domestic storage at lower ground floor level.

  Retention · Cork City Council, 1938842

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.

• CO075-075 Country house
  Description

  Late 18th century 2-storey house overlooking Lough Mahon in Lee Estuary. Entrance front (S) of 9 bays, 3-bay central breakfront. Central fanlighted doorcase with an entablature and engaged Tuscan columns (Bence-Jones 1978, 115). Plate glass sash windows, parapet wall. Rendered with stone quoins exposed on corners of house and breakfront. Hipped roof with central guttered valley; 4-bay deep. 'Screen walls with rusticated niches' join house to office wings extending back; the front ends of the wings being treated as 2-storey 2-bay pavilions with oculi in their upper storey (Bence-Jones 1978, 115). Office wings return in towards centre to enclose cobbled yard to rear. Bifurcating staircase and exceptionally well preserved early 19th century interior within. 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

• Dunkettle House, country house, 1780–1800 · National interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1790, having three-bay breakfront, flanking three-bay single-storey links to east and west elevations terminating in L-plan two-bay two-storey wings forming rectangular yard to rear (north). Re-rendering and alterations to rear dated 1959. Hipped slate roof with rendered parapet and chimneystacks having decorative ceramic chimneypots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped and pitched slate roofs to wings, single-pitched slate roofs to links, both having rendered parapets, with water tank to east wing. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with dressed limestone quoins to central block and render quoins to wings. Rendered niches with block-and-start surrounds to links. Render date in relief to west wing. Segmental-headed diminishing window openings with cut limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to ground floor, six-over-six pane to first floor. Oculus openings to first floors of wings, having fixed timber windows with cobweb tracery. Round-headed opening set in niche to central bay of east link, having render block-and-start surround and nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash window. Carved limestone doorcase comprising engaged Tuscan columns carrying entablature over archivolt formed by continuous stringcourse, having timber framed cobweb fanlight over timber panelled door, and decorative doorbell. Approached by flight of cut limestone steps.

• Dunkettle House, outbuilding, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding enclosing yard to rear of Dunkettle House, built c. 1850, altered c. 1960, having yard entrance to centre. Single-pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Cut tooled red sandstone yard entrance comprising elliptical-arched opening with dressed voussoirs set between dressed pilasters and having double-leaf metal doors.

• Dunkettle House, outbuilding, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached multiple-bay single- and two-storey outbuildings, built c. 1800. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs to two-storey blocks around east yard. Hipped slate roof to two-storey block to west yard. Single-pitched slate roofs to single-storey block in west yard. Random rubble limestone and red sandstone walls to two-storey blocks, roughcast rendered walls to single-storey blocks. Square-headed openings with remains of timber louvers. Cut tooled limestone square-profile gate piers to entrance to west yard set in rubble limestone boundary wall.

• Dunkettle House, gate lodge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1820, now disused. Pyramidal slate roof with overhanging eaves, central rendered red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled double-leaf doors. Cut and carved limestone square-profile gate piers set in quadrant exposed rubble limestone walls to south-east, having wrought-iron double-leaf and pedestrian 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 rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

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.