Land parcel 4844784

Area

747 m²

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,023 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

• The Whitworth Building, hospital/infirmary, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eleven-bay two-storey former hospital, dated 1816, with four-bay extensions to side (east and west) elevations added 1900, basement level to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as offices. Projecting four-bay blocks flanking central pedimented block to front (north) elevation, central pedimented breakfront and projecting end bays to rear. Hipped slate roof, pitched to pedimented bays having carved granite cornices, red brick and rendered chimneystacks with clay chimneypots. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble calp limestone walls, carved granite string course at plinth level, dressed limestone block-and-start quoins, rendered walls and painted string course over plinth course to projections to front. Raised parapet walls having granite coping to extensions to east and west, carved granite cornice. Inscribed granite platbands to base of pediments to each elevation, reading ‘WHITWORTH HOSPITAL’ to front and ‘WHITWORTH HOSPITAL A.D. MDCCCXVI’. Square-headed window openings with red brick voussoirs and block-and-start surrounds, granite sills and timber sash windows: one-over-one pane, twelve-over-eight pane, and bipartite three-over-two pane to extensions, one-over-one pane to rear, twelve-over-eight pane to front, square-headed window openings to projecting blocks having raised render reveals, painted masonry sills and timber sash windows: twelve-over-eight pane and bipartite six-over-four pane. Oriel windows to first floor levels to rear elevation of east and west blocks, one-over-one pane timber sash windows and overlights. Segmental-headed door opening to front, carved granite surround, timber doorcase comprising square-headed double-leaf timber panelled door, bipartite sidelights and overlight, four splayed granite steps.

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.

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.