Land parcel 5491695

Area

348 m²

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 348 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 1 recorded monument.

• CO074-083 Country house
  Description

  Late 18th century 2-storey L-shaped house, named Arbutus Lodge on 1842 OS 6-inch map, extensively modified in mid-late 19th century. Entrance front (W) of 3 bays, now of mid 19th century appearance; at ground floor level 3-bay bows flank pillared entrance porch; roof of main block hipped, with modillion cornice (Bence-Jones 1978, 7). Stairway addition to NE; late 19th century ballroom added to E. Interior with 18th century plasterwork. Recent additions to E incorporate former outbuildings, also 2-storey former lodge of neighbouring Trafalgar House. Now an hotel. 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

• Arbutus Lodge, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1820, extended and altered c.1890 and now comprising three distinct blocks, with canted bay windows and porch to west elevation, full-height canted bay to south elevation and extensions to north and east. Previously in use as hotel, currently unoccupied. Hipped slate roofs to western and eastern sections with pitched roof to northern end of central section, having rendered corbelled chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron gutters on projecting eaves on modillions and cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls with raised plinth and moulded render eaves course. Overhanging cornice with dentils to canted bays and porch. Square-headed window openings with moulded architraves, stone sills and one-over-one timber sash windows. Continuous sill course to canted bays. Ground floor windows to south elevation with closed bed pediments supported on console brackets. Round- and square-headed window openings to north elevation with one-over-one sliding sash windows having stained glass and margin lights. Round-arched opening to porch with moulded render archivolt supported on paired Corinthian columns, having limestone steps and tiled floor. Round-headed door opening with timber door having stained glass panel and stained glass sidelights and overlights. House set within own grounds on south-facing slope with square-profile limestone gate piers to west having recessed panels with half rosettes, string course and incised decoration beneath pedimented caps, jostle stone to southern pier, replacement metal gates. Piers flanked by cast-iron railings on limestone plinth. Rendered boundary wall to north site.

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.