Land parcel 5296548

Area

110 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 241 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

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 2 recorded monuments.

• CO074-058 Church
  Description

  On high ground overlooking Lee river, on N side of Glanmire road, above former docks. Known as sailor's church; its tithes were at one time appropriated to leper hospital of 'Glenmaggyr' (Glanmire?) and 'its burial ground continued in use long after the church itself had fallen into decay' (Bolster 1972, 301). Not marked on 1842 and 1902 OS 6-inch map; 'site of' on 1950 map now part of entry to 19th century house. According to Whyte (1986, 19), 'the only remaining relic .. is a small circular mound of stones' on the W boundary of garden, c. 100m to N; 'overgrown .. believed to be part of the chancel of the early church.' No structural remains visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO074-085 Country house
  Description

  Rectangular early-mid 18th century house, 2-storey over basement, probabl ybuilt c. 1716-24 by Elias Voster, a Dutchman settled in Cork, with alterations carried out in 1860s (Meagher forthcoming). Entrance front (N) of 5 bays; central 1-bay breakfront with wide 25-light sash window over fanlighted door with coupled engaged Doric columns (Bence-Jones 1978, 28). View front (S) has central 2-bay bow. House 2 bays deep, with round-headed stairway window on E elevation. Roof hipped with Victorian dormers; 18th century staircase and plasterwork in interior. Blocked-up alcove in retaining wall of garden on Middle Glanmire Road marks remains of formerly extensive ornamental waterworks; possible site of St. Brandon's church (CO074-058---) in W side of garden. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace of four two-bay three-storey houses, built c.1840, with dormer attics to western pair of houses, and gable-fronted two-bay three-storey house attached to west c.1880. Pitched slate and artificial slate roofs, double-pile roof to eastern pair, with smooth-rendered and red brick chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Some cast-iron rainwater goods survive to western house. Gable-fronted dormers with timber bargeboards. Smooth-rendered walls with platbands at first floor sill level to western three houses. Blind oculus to gable of western house with roughcast render to ground floor walls. Round-headed window openings to first and second floors and camber-headed window openings to ground floors and west house with stone sills and replacement windows throughout. Moulded render surrounds incorporating keystones to western pair. Eastern house with square-headed openings. Round-headed and camber-headed door openings with moulded render surrounds, timber panelled doors and overlights. Some with replacement doors. Square-headed door opening to east house with replacement timber door. Set on an elevated south-facing slope with gardens to front (south) and rear sites bounded be rendered wall.

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.