Land parcel 5082391
Registered freehold, where the statutory boundaries draw no townland, as in the centres of Dublin, Cork and Galway
Parcel 5082391
- Area
- 10,378 m² (1.04 ha, 2.56 acres)
- Buildings
- 19 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,808 m².
- Zoning
- R2 Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Saviour's Amateur Boxing Club, fire station, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
Description
Detached multiple-bay three storey former fire station, completed 1903 and dated 1901, with projecting slender four-stage tower to middle of elevation. Now in use as community sports centre. Tower surmounted by pyramidal lead-lined roof with ball finial and limestone cornice with concave limestone brackets. Replacement sheet-iron pitched roofs with three profiled red brick chimneystacks, set behind gable to west and parapet wall to east. Moulded limestone coping to parapet and gable, surmounted by limestone ball finial, with replacement uPVC rainwater goods breaking through to base of parapet and cast-iron hopper at first floor level. Machine-made red brick walls laid in Flemish bond set on moulded granite plinth course with continuous moulded brick courses below sill levels. Yellow brick to rear walls laid in English garden wall bond, partially roughcast cement rendered walls to east and west side elevations. Pedimented limestone date panel to front gable with raised digits ‘1901’ and apron details with full-span limestone cornice to base of gable. Tower has gauged brick round-arched openings to upper stage with bowtell reveals, continuous brick hood-moulding and decorative limestone balustraded balconies to each opening supported on limestone brackets, further round-arched opening to second stage with paired openings to ground level and third stage, all having bowtell reveals, now blocked up. Gauged brick window openings to main facade of building with painted flush masonry sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, flat-arched to second floor, segmental-headed elsewhere. Two segmental-arched vehicular entrances (now blocked up) to gabled west section flanked by shallow brick pilasters rising to gable forming two shallow recessed bays with dentillated heads. Further segmental-arch opening to east end of facade. Structure has been extended to rear with number of flat roof render volumes. Play area to rear and social housing blocks to both sides.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. 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.