Land parcel 5558074

Area

550 m²

Buildings

7 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 556 m².

Zoning

R2 Z2: Residential Neighbourhoods (Conservation Areas) (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 9 Oct 2020Grant permission

  The development will consist of: a) Demolition of the non-original single storey ancillary structures to rear/north-east of the original church & school building including single storey porch extension to west elevation, roof covering to external yard adjacent to No. 32 St. Kevin’s Road and partial demolition of existing pitched roof to east of the former school building, b) Change of use from office to residential to provide 3no. own door duplex apartments within the church & school buildings comprising of – Unit 01: 2-bedroom duplex apartment accessed through existing former church building entrance porch on west elevation (94.4sqm), Unit 02: 2-bedroom duplex apartment accessed via existing former church building entrance porch to south-west corner of building (112.4 sqm), Unit 03: 2-bedroom duplex apartment accessed from existing former school building entrance door onto St. Kevin’s Road (152.7sqm), c) Material alterations to the former church & school building to accommodate the 3no. Duplex apartment to include construction of a new 72.1sqm mezzanine/first floor level within existing main former church hall, new 23.8sqm mezzanine/first floor level within existing former school hall, new window opening at high level to eastern side of main church building and 4 new rooflights to rear/north face of pitched roof, repair of all original windows and doors and replacement where necessary with historically appropriate timber windows, repair and upgrade of existing slate roofs and cast-iron rainwater goods, repair and re-pointing of granite stonework where necessary, d) Construction of a new 2 storey, 2-bedroom dwelling (94.4sqm) to the former school yard set behind, and accessed via, a new entrance door to existing stone wall adjacent to No. 32 St. Kevin’s Road, and e) All other associated landscaping & siteworks.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 3527/20

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

• Church/chapel, school, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited gable-fronted former Methodist church, built 1870-71, having three-bay nave with gable-fronted porch to west end and single-storey transept to south of nave. Later used as office. Gable-fronted former school, set perpendicular to church, adjoining east end. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to transept, having granite barges to gables, granite chimneystack, corbelled sandstone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked rusticated granite walls with stepped granite buttresses to nave, and carved granite plinth course. Pointed-arch and round-headed window openings with chamfered ashlar granite surrounds, sloping granite sills, single, double and triple-light windows, some with granite hood-mouldings; oculus to front with chamfered ashlar granite surround, granite hood-moulding and leaded multifoil window. Stilted-arch doorways with dressed granite surrounds and timber battened doors with cast-iron strap hinges; double-leaf timber battened and glazed door to porch. Cast-iron railings with fleur-de-finials on cut masonry plinth wall, with matching double-leaf gate.

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 rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3207 (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.