Land parcel 3293073

Area

14,108 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres)

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,749 m².

Zoning

G3 Landscape Preservation Zones (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 7 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a new single storey detached classroom to be associated with the existing Bessborough Creche including all associated site works,

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2140481

• 30 Nov 2020Refused

  Permission for the construction of a residential development and all ancillary site works at Bessboro, Ballinure, Blackrock, Cork. The proposed development will consist of 67 no. apartments in an 8-storey apartment building comprising 29 no. 1-bedroom apartments and 38 no. 2-bedroom apartments. The proposed development will provide for a new pedestrian and cyclist entrance onto the Passage West Greenway and vehicular access will be via an existing access road off the Bessboro Road. The proposed development also includes communal open space areas, landscaping, under-podium car parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces, bin stores, public lighting and all ancillary site development works including an upgrade of the existing sewer line. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2039705

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.

• CO074-077 Country house
  Description

  Mid 18th century 3-storey house overlooking Douglas Estuary to S; 3 bays deep. Entrance front (S) of 7 bays, 3-bay central breakfront, pedimented with oculus. Central door with fanlight, pedimented; central Venetian window at 1st floor, central Diocletian window at 2nd floor; limestone surrounds around all three opes. Sash windows decrease in size with height, prominent limestone keystone. Rendered walls with cut limestone band course, quoins and cornice exposed. Hipped roof with central valley. Numerous additions to rear. Victorian conservatory on W elevation. Farmbuildings to N, now been converted to heritage centre. Ice house (CO074-051---) to W. 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

• Bessborough, folly, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay two-storey folly, c.1880, on a rectangular plan. Rubble limestone walls with rubble limestone "destroyed" Irish battlemented parapets. Pointed-arch central door opening. Pointed-arch flanking window openings. Pair of lancet loops (second stage). Lancet window openings (side elevations). Set in grounds shared with Bessborough.

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.

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.