Land parcel 5623836

Area

5,855 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres)

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 684 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

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• St Catherine's Convent, convent/nunnery, 1955–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey convent, built 1957, having ten-bay return to rear (east) elevation and adjoining gable-fronted chapel to north with four-bay elevation to nave and flat-roofed sacristy to rear (west). Flat-roofed extension to south-west corner. Hipped artificial slate roof, pitched to chapel, with red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods to projecting eaves. Red brick walls. Bipartite square-headed window openings with concrete sills and mullions and replacement uPVC windows. Bipartite pointed arch window openings to chapel nave with triple-light window to west elevation having concrete sills, surrounds and leaded glass. Recessed square-headed door opening set in moulded render surround incorporating keystone with cross decoration to timber door and overlight. Double-height round-arched recess to east elevation of church with moulded concrete surround, square-headed door opening having double-leaf timber battened door and triple-light window above. Set within its own grounds and bounded to front by roughcast rendered boundary wall with wrought-iron railings and gates.

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.