Land parcel 5412042

Area

8,202 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres)

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 2,728 m².

Zoning

G3 Landscape Preservation Zones (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

• 7 Mar 2024Conditional

  Permission is sought for the installation of Temporary Accommodation, comprising of a standard classroom, on the site of the Former St. Finbarr's Seminary Building (A Protected Structure), Redemption Road, Cork.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2442736

• 15 Aug 2022Conditional

  Permission for retention of the existing childcare facility use at the former St. Finbarr's Seminary Building (a protected structure), Farranferris Education and Training Campus, Redemption Road, Farranferris, Farranree, Cork (T23YW62). Temporary permission for a period of 5 years was previously granted for the childcare facility use under P.A. Reg. No. 11/35060.

  Retention · Cork City Council, 2241335

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

• Farranferris Educational Campus, college, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay three-storey with attic former seminary built 1883-5, in the late Gothic Revival style. Full-height canted bays to north and south of central entrance bay at front (east) elevation and five-stage tower to side (south) elevation with hipped roof having dormer opening to south. Originally built on a U-shaped plan around a courtyard with west (rear) section filled in by later addition, c.1960. Now in use as a training centre. Hipped slate roofs (gabled to attic windows) with terracotta ridge tiles, tall red and yellow brick corbelled chimneystacks, chimneystacks to north and south having limestone stepped verge stones, orb finials to roof apexes, wrought-iron finials to canted bay apexes and profiled cast-iron gutters on yellow brick projecting eaves. Timber bargeboards to gabled dormers. Red brick walls laid in English Garden Wall bond with yellow brick moulded eaves course and chamfered limestone continuous sill courses. Inlaid yellow brick crucifix at west elevation. Pointed arch and surbased-arch window openings with alternating red and yellow brick heads and one-over-one and two-over-two timber sash windows. Moulded brick reveals and soffits to east elevation with carved limestone tympanums to ground and first floor openings. Paired openings to first floor central bays east elevation with limestone archivolts springing from limestone colonnettes and limestone oculi to brick tympanums. Paired pointed-arch openings to fifth stage of tower having splayed limestone sills, yellow brick archivolts, red brick piers, blind oculus to tympanum in dress limestone surround, dressed limestone string course and multi-pane fixed pane windows. Oculus opening to fourth stage. Paired pointed arch openings to second and third stages with alternating brick heads and timber casement windows. Square-headed openings to dormers. Tripartite pointed arch door opening to central bay front (east) elevation having dressed limestone chamfered surround under stepped red and yellow brick arches, timber fixed pane stained glass lights to tympanum and leaded stained glass to sidelights having splayed limestone sills and flanking twelve-panelled timber double doors . Limestone threshold and single step giving access to entrance porch and interior. Interior with corridors to three sides of inner courtyard having encaustic tiled floors with west corridor having linoleum surfaced flooring. Chapel to north-east. Set in own large grounds with access by avenue to Lover’s Walk, bounded by roughcast render walls with square-profile gate piers and cast-iron gates to south-east.

• Farranferris Educational Campus, school, 1940–1970 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached multiple-bay two-storey school building, built c.1960, as addition to St Finbarr’s Seminary and forming west side of a quadrangle. Pitched copper-clad roof with metal gutters on slightly overhanging eaves. Red brick walls laid in stretcher bond. Pointed arched window openings with concrete sills, one-over-one timber sliding sash windows at first floor and two-over-two sash windows at ground floor. Pointed arched door opening in stepped recess at courtyard (east) elevation, plain glazed overlight, timber matchboard door. Principal access from interior. Emergency access to rear (west).

• Farranferris Educational Campus, church/chapel, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay double-height chapel, built c.1885, with canted northern elevation. Attached to seminary and school buildings to south, accessed via internal corridor. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, wrought-iron finial to apex, copper-clad verge coping and profiled rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in English Garden Wall bond with dressed limestone moulded eaves course. Paired pointed arch window openings with limestone window heads, limestone sills and leaded stained glass lights. Oculi at clerestory level having quatrefoil leaded lights. Pointed arch door opening at porch accessed from internal corridor. Interior with painted panelled timber ceiling, trefoil-headed lancet windows in moulded render surrounds having engaged columns supporting moulded render archivolts. Carpet surfaced flooring. Recent altar, central aisle and recent seating.

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.

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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.