Land parcel 5134969

Area

43,088 m² (4.31 ha, 10.65 acres)

Buildings

15 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 11,992 m².

Zoning

S3 Institutions and Community (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective
R2 Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods (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

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• Cork Prison, prison/jail, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached twenty-three-bay three-storey prison with three-bay central breakfront, built 1846, as military prison associated with the military barracks located to the south. Converted to use as a civil prison in 1971, with various subsequent additions. Roof hidden behind ashlar limestone parapet with intermittent pilasters. Squared rubble limestone walls with carved limestone cornice. Round-headed window openings to breakfront with limestone sills and dressed limestone voussoirs and reveals. Camber-headed openings with limestone sills and surrounds. Replacement windows throughout. Square-headed door opening to breakfront with limestone cornice supported on stone console brackets, block-and-start reveals and replacement timber double-leaf doors.

• Cork Prison, prison walls, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Prison gatehouse and walls, built c.1860, as part of prison associated with the military barracks located to south. Converted to use as civil prison in 1971. Three-bay gatehouse comprising central bay with round-headed gateway set in projecting ashlar surround and flanked by projecting end bays with curved corners. Roof hidden. Squared rubble limestone walls with concrete coping and razor wire. Round-headed window openings to end bays stone sills, dressed limestone voussoirs to heads, metal bars and replacement windows. Round-headed gateway with limestone impost course, limestone carriage stops and replacement gates with metal railing to replacement fanlight. Rubble stone boundary wall survives to west of complex with corner bastions and topped by concrete with razor wire. Concrete walling to north and south. Stone gravemarker mounted to wall in north-west corner marking the alleged grave of Thomas Ceannt who was executed following the 1916 Rising.

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.

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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.