Land parcel 5420746

Area

449 m²

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 419 m².

Zoning

R3 Residential (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) 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

• Churchfields House, school, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey former Christian Brothers monastery, dated 1887, facing north, comprising six-bay front block having recent projecting porch and flanked by slightly projecting one-bay west and two-bay east gable-fronted parts, latter being north gable of six-bay block having gabled porch projection. Two-storey block to rear of west end having six-bay east and five-bay west elevations, with one-bay two-storey lean-to part to north end linking to front block, south end of block having bowed elevation to former chapel. Now in use as houses and medical centre. Pitched slate and artificial slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks, copper cladding to copings, cross finials and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Bracketed eaves course to front and east elevations, and to older porch. Painted brick eaves course to west elevation of rear block and ashlar limestone eaves course to chapel. Rendered lined-and-ruled walls with block-and-start ashlar limestone quoins and painted chamfered plinth. Moulded render Christian Brothers plaque to east projection of front elevation. Blind oculus to south gable of east block with date of 1887 in high relief. Dressed limestone quoins and kneelers to projections of front elevation and to south gable of east block. Chamfered ashlar limestone string course to chapel. Four-centred window openings to front and east blocks, with moulded surrounds, ashlar limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Windows to north projection of front elevation are paired and those to first floor have render hood-moulding over tympanum-style detail with render decoration and heraldic plaque. Square-headed window openings to ground floor of west block and four-centred openings to first floor with limestone hood-mouldings, all windows having ashlar limestone block-and-start surrounds, cut-stone sills and replacement windows. Four-centred door opening to east porch with replacement timber door. Four-centred door opening to rear elevation of front block, with overlight, moulded surround and replacement door. Square-headed door openings to west block, with block-and-start tooled ashlar limestone surrounds and replacement timber doors. Painted rendered boundary walls cast-iron railings.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_454 (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.