Land parcel 2848004

Area

211 m²

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 522 m².

Zoning

M2 Z5: City Centre (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) 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

• Café Urbano, store/warehouse, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached symmetrical seven-bay single-storey over basement brown brick and granite former excise store, dated 1821, with recessed central entrance bay flanked by pair of three-bay elevations. Restored and converted for commercial use c.2000, with single-storey glazed additions to east and west. Flat roof hidden behind granite ashlar parapet wall having raised granite blocking courses to centre of each three-bay section. Yellow brick walls laid in Flemish bond with recent lime tuck pointing to north front elevation, rusticated granite ashlar quoins framing each three-bay elevation, granite ashlar plinth course over coursed and tooled rock-faced calp limestone basement walls. Granite ashlar frieze and granite cornice span all elevations with random coursed rubble calp stone walls to remaining three elevations. Large granite plaque to central entrance bay with inscribed lettering; ‘HIS MAJESTY’S / EXCISE STORE / 1821’. Each three-bay elevation has central recessed blind brick panel flanked by further blind brick panels with granite surrounds. Segmental-window openings with granite architrave surrounds, granite sills and original multiple-pane iron windows (unglazed with modern windows behind). Three segmental-headed door openings with moulded granite architrave surrounds, granite thresholds and modern glazed doors. Behind glazed doors each opening has original double-leaf cast-iron panelled door with decorative iron over-panel and projecting iron crane. Outer door openings have glazed balustrades with gauged calp limestone arch visible below street level while central opening has modern steel steps with glazed balustrade, now principal entrance.

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 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3233 (ZIP).

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.