Land parcel 2685909
Registered freehold, where the statutory boundaries draw no townland, as in the centres of Dublin, Cork and Galway
Parcel 2685909
- Area
- 4,086 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Buildings
- 8 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,445 m².
- Zoning
- R2 Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective
- Townland
- —
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 the Assumption Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1950–1960 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1953-6, having eleven-bay nave elevation, lean-to side aisles, gable-fronted transepts terminating flush with aisles, three-stage square-profile tower to southeast corner and T-plan two-storey sacristy attached to north. Pitched ceramic tiled roofs with overhanging eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Copper roof to the tower with cross finial to apex. Bred walls in a running bond with crosses to north and south gables. Statue of the Virgin Mary in cut limestone niche above entrance to south elevation. Tripartite windows to clerestory and south end of west aisle, bipartite windows to aisles, double-height tripartite windows to transept gables, with round-headed lights, cut limestone colonnette mullions, pre-cast sills and leaded stained glass. Five-light window to south elevation above main entrance having limestone colonnette mullions, precast sill and stained glass. Round-headed window openings to tower having bipartite window to second stage and tripartite window to third stage, limestone colonnette mullions, pre-cast sills and stained glass. Round-headed door openings, paired openings to south elevation, with cut limestone block-and-start surrounds, carved limestone archivolts, hood mouldings and filleted timber doors. Double-leaf doors to the main entrances. Inner doors to the all entrances have pedimented doorcases and panelled and glazed doors with tiled floors to the porches. Barrel-vaulted ceiling over nave with arcades to the side aisles of painted columns having precast capitals with diagonally placed volutes. Side chapels at each end of both aisles. Cast-iron railings and gates retained to the south and east boundaries of the church grounds.
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.