Land parcel 2570026

Area

16,622 m² (1.66 ha, 4.11 acres)

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,226 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

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

• Presentation Brothers, Mount St Joseph, monastery, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eleven-bay three-storey monastery, dated 1891, with gabled breakfront to centre bay, gable-fronted breakfronts to end bays and flanked by two-bay three-storey gable-fronted wings to east and west with western wing continued northwards by two-storey block. Dormer windows to north-west block. Conservatory added to south elevation, covering entrance door. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks with yellow brick dressings, limestone verge coping to gables with wrought-iron cross finials and limestone kneelers and uPVC rainwater goods on stepped yellow brick corbelled eaves course. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with yellow brick platbands. Square-headed recess to centre breakfront with limestone and yellow brick dressings and yellow brick cross motif above with carved limestone statue plinth flanked by two moulded plaques in yellow brick surrounds reading 'AD' and '1891'. Pointed segmental-headed recesses to end-bay breakfronts with yellow terracotta hood mouldings and alternating red brick and yellow terracotta voussoirs. Moulded yellow terracotta cross embellishments to tympanum. Rendered elevations to north. Pointed segmental- and camber-headed window openings with yellow terracotta and brick heads, stepped reveals and limestone sills with terracotta corbels to ground and first floors. Second floor windows to gable-fronted wings have yellow and red brick to tympanum over windows. Paired pointed arch openings to breakfronts with limestone sills and alternating yellow terracotta and red brick voussoirs. uPVC windows throughout. Trefoil windows with limestone tracery, terracotta surrounds and leaded glass. Pointed segmental-headed door opening to south contained within conservatory having replacement timber and glazed door with sidelights and overlights. Pointed arch door opening to east elevation with yellow terracotta hood moulding and archivolt, stepped reveals and arch having roll moulding detail and timber panelled door with overlight. Set within own grounds, on south-facing slope with chapel attached to north-east, cemetery to north-east and entrance gates and gate lodge to south-east.

• Presentation Brothers, Mount St Joseph, gate lodge, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey with attic former gate lodge, built c.1890, with gabled western bay and extension to north. Now in private domestic use. Pitched slate with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystack with yellow brick string course, timber bargeboards to gables and dormer window and replacement rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with yellow brick platbands. Roughcast render to extension. Tudor-arch window openings with yellow brick heads, stone sills and uPVC windows. Tudor-arch door opening to west elevation with yellow brick head and replacement timber panelled door with overlight. Forming entrance to Mount St Joseph with the associated entrance gates to the west.

• Presentation Brothers, Mount St Joseph, gates/railings/walls, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates, built c.1890, comprising square-profile dressed limestone piers with chamfered corners, red brick panels, recessed panel with dog-tooth carving and blank plaques and stepped carved limestone caps. ‘PRESENTATION BROTHERS MOUNT ST JOSEPH’ inscribed to west pier. Set in rubble limestone with saddleback coping. Pointed arch pedestrian gate to east set in red brick wall with limestone saddleback coping and limestone surround to gateway. Wrought-iron gates. Forms entrance to Mount St Joseph with gate lodge to east.

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.