Land parcel 5552206

Area

497 m²

Buildings

6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 726 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

• 10 Mar 2022N/a

  Permission is sought for a new 3-storey rear extension and for the conversion of an existing dwelling to 7 no. apartments including elevational alterations and for the relocation of existing vehicular access and for a new pedestrian access to the Mardyke Walk and all associated siteworks.

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2240916

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

• Cork International Hostel, house, 1890–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace of four two-bay three-storey with attic houses, built c.1910, having full-height canted bays and gablets, shared to centre pair to front (south) elevations and returns to rear (north) elevations. Now in use as hostel. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods to red brick bracketed eaves. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with moulded brick continuous sill courses. Decorative terracotta tiling to inset of gablets with stucco work to canted bays. Square-headed window openings with terracotta surrounds having roll moulding detail, render sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Some uPVC windows. Segmental-headed door openings with terracotta surrounds, hood-mouldings and finals to replacement timber panelled doors, fanlights and sidelights. Wrought-iron pedestrian gates with flanking red brick piers, pointed render caps and ball finials. Red brick boundary walls with render coping and wrought-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

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.

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.