Land parcel 2851853

Area

3,278 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,245 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

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

• DU018-020321 Religious house - Benedictine nuns
  Description

  The W side of the Richmond Hospital complex occupies the site of a convent built by the Benedictine Nuns in 1688 by Royal Charter of King James 11. Shortly after it's foundation it was taken over by the Dominican nuns who substantially re-built it. In 1811 the building was incorporated into the Richmond Surgical Hospital and the chapel was incorporated into the 'Chapel Ward', and later the stores of a new Richmond Hospital. Test excavations in 1994 revealed the much disturbed remains of the Benedictine convent along with several phases of later building (Moylan 1944-45, 104 Simpson, 1995, 29).

Architectural heritage

• Dublin District Court, hospital/infirmary, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan former hospital, dated 1900, comprising five-bay two-storey centre block with gabled breakfronts to either end of front (south) elevation, having two-storey canted bay windows to each breakfront, adjoining seven-bay two-storey over half-basement gable-fronted pavilions, arcaded verandas to first and second floors of south elevation, flanked by square-profile three-stage corner towers. Hipped slate roofs having terracotta ridge cresting and finials, red brick chimneystacks and moulded clay chimneystacks, timber and terracotta Ionic colonnaded towers with copper ogee-domed roofs and finials over to centre block and pavilions. Dutch gables having moulded terracotta coping to gables to breakfronts. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Shaped gables with moulded terracotta coping and pointed finials, octagonal column finial, to gables to pavilions. Square-plan copper ogee-domes having wrought-iron finials to towers. Red brick cornice having moulded terracotta egg-and-dart motif over red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls. Moulded terracotta plinth course over channelled red brick to basement, moulded terracotta string courses forming continuous sill courses to first and ground floors and over ground floor, moulded terracotta string course and platbands to gables of pavilions and to towers. Elliptical-headed openings to arcade to ground floor of pavilions, moulded terracotta hood mouldings supported on polished granite columns, terracotta balustrade. Square-headed openings to arcade to first floor, channelled terracotta piers supporting canopy, moulded scrolled consoles, terracotta balustrade having segmental-headed openings. Moulded terracotta fascia over door to front, decorative surround and swags, reading: 'Founded A.D. 1772/Richmond Hospital/Rebuilt A.D.1900'. Square-headed ventilation openings to third stage of towers, block-and-start chamfered terracotta surrounds, mullions, timber louvered vents. Square-headed window openings, block-and-start terracotta surrounds, voussoirs, and chamfered mullions, timber frame windows. Segmental-arched window openings to east and west elevations of pavilions, red brick voussoirs, moulded terracotta sills and one-over-one pane timber sash windows with overlights. Segmental-arched window openings to interior of verandas having red brick voussoirs, moulded terracotta sills and timber frame windows. Oculi to second stages of towers and apices of gables, moulded terracotta surrounds and timber frame windows. Round-arched window openings to basement level to front, red brick voussoirs and timber frame windows. Round-headed door opening to front, moulded terracotta surround and hood moulding, supported on panelled pilasters. Double-leaf half-glazed timber panelled door, glazed sidelights on red brick risers, carved timber mullions with engaged Ionic columns supporting lintel, glazed leaded overlight. Door opens onto granite platform with steps, flanked by red brick retaining walls having terracotta coping, terminating in octagonal piers having ball finials. Pair of square-profile terracotta piers with moulded capping, panels and cast-iron finials, flanking double-leaf cast-iron gate, matching pedestrian gates to either side of main gateway. Red brick screen walls having terracotta coping and plinth courses, terminating in matching piers, matching cast-iron railings on moulded terracotta plinth wall to front of site.

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_3206 (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.

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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.