Land parcel 5608891
Registered freehold, where the statutory boundaries draw no townland, as in the centres of Dublin, Cork and Galway
Parcel 5608891
- Area
- 302 m²
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 598 m².
- Zoning
- O2 Z8: Georgian Conservation Areas (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) 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
- House, 1760–1770 · Regional interest
Description
Attached three-bay four-storey former house over basement, built c. 1765, having one and two-storey additions to rear. Now in use as offices. M-profile pitched slate roof with skylights and having lantern to valley, hidden behind brick parapet with granite coping, and shouldered brick and rendered chimneystack with clay pots to east. Flemish bond brown brick walls over granite stringcourse above first floor sill level, rusticated granite walls to ground floor and painted rendered walls to basement; rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings, diminishing in height to upper floors, with rendered reveals, painted granite sills and timber sliding sash windows, margined one-over-two pane to ground floor, nine-over-nine pane to first floor, six-over-six pane to basement and second floor and three-over-three pane to top floor. Decorative wrought-iron balconettes to first floor, cast-iron window-guards to ground floor and wrought-iron railings to basement. Segmental-headed door opening with rendered linings, fluted frieze and moulded cornice on engaged Ionic columns, and having plain fanlight, fluted archivolt and eight-panel timber door with brass furniture. Limestone platform with cast-iron boot-scrapes and three bull-nosed granite steps. Wrought-iron railings enclosing basement area with decorative wrought and cast-iron corner posts on carved granite plinth. Interior stated by Casey to have much original joinery and cornices, including acanthus cornice to stair hall, Rococo cornice with flower baskets, feeding birds and festoons to rear first floor room, and other elements. Rear of plot has garden to middle part and later buildings to rearmost part, with rendered rear boundary wall.
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 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_3234 (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.