Land parcel 3471060

Area

5,804 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 318 m².

Zoning

G1 Public Open Space (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

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

• CO074-060 Country house
  Description

  Late 18th century 2-storey house over basement. Curved entrance front (S) of 3 bays; basement not visible. Central door with sidelights incorporated into frame, large fanlight over door and sidelights, supported by composite pilasters and columns (see photos: Craig 1976, 151-2) - sidelights, fanlight and columns now blocked. Bow projections on E and W elevations; round headed stairway window on E bow. View front (N) of 4 bays with blocked-up basement windows. Hipped roof with central valley. Remains of weatherslating visible. Now headquarters of Munster Motor Cycle and Car Club. The house was completely gutted by fire on 24 July 2016. 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: 28 July 2016

Architectural heritage

• Vernon Mount, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1790, with curved south elevation terminated with end bows. Now disused. Four-bay rear elevation. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with string course at eaves level and remains of slate hanging. Camber-headed window openings, some retaining remains of timber sliding sash windows. Rounded-headed stairwell window and oculus window to projecting stairwell bow. Segmental-headed door opening, now altered. Thought to retain interior features, including cantilevered staircase, plasterwork and joinery.

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.