Land parcel 5403600

Area

1,026 m²

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 2,629 m².

Zoning

M2 Z5: City Centre (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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• DU018-020504 Graveyard
  Description

  Dublin Public Libraries (1990, 77) mention St Thomas's graveyard. The graveyard was in use from c. 1700-1882. The church and adjoining graveyard were damaged during the period 1916-2922. The remains were re-interred in Mount Jerome during the mid 1920's.

Architectural heritage

• School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology, college, 1935–1940 · National interest
  Description

  Corner-sited attached multiple-bay four-storey over basement Art Deco-style college, built 1938-9 by Robinson and Keefe. Principal symmetrical elevation facing north onto Cathal Brugha Street with single-bay chamfered corners to either end and secondary elevation facing east onto Marlborough Street. Roof not visible from street. Cast-iron rainwater goods and moulded granite ashlar coping. Machine-cut red brick walls laid in English bond to stepped granite ashlar plinth course up to ground floor sill level. Chamfered corner bays have curved bay to ground floor surmounted by deeply moulded granite cornice and figurative sculpture of The Three Graces to west corner by Gabriel Hayes, contract awarded 1943. Square-headed window openings with continuous soldier brick courses to heads, set on chamfered continuous flush granite sill course, horizontally-glazed hardwood windows, in groups of two and four to north elevation, groups of three to east elevation, divided by granite mullions. Three-storey central shallow entrance breakfront surmounted by granite hood above second floor with tripartite granite ashlar entrance surround and tripartite windows above. Deeply inset tripartite polished timber entrance screen with corresponding overlight having original decorative scrolled iron grille throughout. Door opens onto Kilkenny limestone paved platform with retractable iron gates to three limestone steps. Secondary inner tripartite polished timber entrance screen with brass furniture. Entrance hall comprising terrazzo floors, octagonal piers of Connemara marble with Kilkenny limestone bases and caps forming double screen with responding engaged pilasters. Walls lined with matching Connemara marble panels and limestone skirting. Coved ceiling with moulded plaster panels. Imperial stair with steel balustrade and continuous chrome handrail wrapping around double-height piers. Flanking corridors having parquet floors and original joinery.

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 gives no landslide susceptibility class here. 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.

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.