Land parcel 5051848

Area

25,988 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres)

Buildings

7 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 7,148 m².

Zoning

G5 Z9: Amenity/Open Space Lands/Green Network (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective
S5 Z15: Community and Social Infrastructure (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 11 Aug 2023Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development is within the curtilage of the Former Édenmore House, St Joseph's, Hospital which is a Protected Structure (RPS No. 8737). The development consists of: (i) A single storey relocatable MRI unit with attached single-storey building for MRI reception and office use to be located immediately to the west of the existing main entrance gates. (ii) Associated site works to include low level retaining walls, installation of granite setts to existing car parking area, new landscape planting, all connections to existing services and new soakaway. (iii) Removal of free-standing sign at the front of the protected structure gates.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 4292/23

• 24 Mar 2023Application declared inva

  The development will consist of a relocatable MRI unit, a single storey building for MRI reception and office use with all connections to existing services and associated site works.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3437/23

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

• St Joseph's Nursing Home, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gateway, erected c. 1850, serving Saint Joseph's Nursing Home, formerly Edenmore House. Comprising pair of square-plan granite piers flanking double-leaf cast-iron gate, having matching curved flanking cast-iron railings on carved granite plinth walls, terminating in square-plan cut granite piers. Carved granite capping to piers, with incised panels to front (north) elevation. Matching cast-iron gate forming pedestrian entrance to east quadrant. Two-bay single-storey gate lodge to southeast, with gabled end bay to south, artificial slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystack and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walling with smooth render plinth course. Segmental-headed window openings to front (west) elevation of end bay with stepped reveals and replacement timber windows with steel grilles. Timber oculus window to front, and square-headed doorway. Blocked vehicular and entrance gates to northwest of gate.

• St Joseph's Nursing Home, house, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached seven-bay two-storey former house with attic accommodation, built c. 1730, with full-height canted end bays and central Ionic portico to front (south) elevation. Extensions to rear (north) elevation, and recent two-storey building adjoining east elevation. Now in use as nursing home. Hipped natural slate roofs with rendered and red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron water tank and cast-iron rainwater goods, surrounded by raised rendered parapet having render coping. Moulded render cornice to base of parapet. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plinth course. Square-headed window openings throughout with raised render reveals, painted masonry sills and replacement windows. Coloured glass panels to ground floor to front of canted-bay to east. Central round-headed window to first floor to front. Portico comprising paired masonry Ionic columns with responding pilasters, supporting entablature, with stepped parapet surmounted by granite cross. Square-headed door opening with render architrave, double-leaf half-glazed timber panelled door, limestone platform and steps. Situated in own grounds, surrounded by more recent hospital buildings. Mature gardens to front.

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 rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3278 (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.