Land parcel 5251716

Area

6,867 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres)

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,032 m².

Zoning

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

• 12 Jun 2023Conditional

  Permission for retention is sought for a single-storey extension, two velux type roof lights and modifications to elevations, all to the rear of an existing two-storey end of terrace dwelling (a protected structure, Ref. No. PS529) and all associated works.

  Retention · Cork City Council, 2342073

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

• Towerviille, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached house, built c.1800, comprising L-plan five-bay single-storey eastern block with three-bay three-storey elliptical bow-fronted block to the west having return to rear (north) and connected via single-storey entrance bay with cast-iron trellised veranda to south of west block and single storey block to north with bow bays. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, projecting eaves to eastern section and cast-iron rainwater goods. Conical slate roofs to bows. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth and slate hanging to western elevation of three-storey section. Camber-headed window openings to west section with square-headed openings to ground floor, stone sills and one-over-one timber sash windows. Lunette to western elevation of west section with spoked timber window. Square-headed window opening to stairwell of western block with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash. Square-headed window openings to east section with nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Quadripartite entrance to veranda comprising double-leaf timber and glass panelled door flanked by timber paned sidelights. Ashlar limestone boundary wall surmounted by cast-iron railings with hexagonal gate piers and cast-iron pedestrian gate. House now approached via rubble stone bounded lane with shared entrance to south-west. Smooth render garden wall bounding neighbouring property to the west with arched opening and wrought-iron gate.

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 rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. 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.