Land parcel 5951977

Area

5,358 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres)

Buildings

6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,538 m².

Zoning

R3 Residential (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) The objective
C2.1 Enterprise Light Industry and Commercial (Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3)) 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

• Galway Magdalen Home, church/chapel, 1945–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached former chapel of Magdalen home, dated 1950, now in use as archive centre. Comprises six-bay nave with bowed south gable, shallow porch projection to north end, shallow transept-like projection to east, and recent porch addition to east side having lean-to roof. Pitched slate roof with limestone copings to gables with cross finials, overhanging rendered eaves on exposed timber rafters to nave side walls, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked rusticated ashlar limestone walls with tooled limestone quoin stones and chamfered plinth. Limestone block with text and date to south-west corner. Round-headed lancet window openings to nave, paired to transept-like projection and north porch and having raised tooled limestone surrounds, sills and voussoirs and having lead-lined lattice windows. Oval rose window with tooled limestone surround, mullion and transom and lead-lined stained glass. Square-headed openings to gables having ashlar limestone block-and-start surrounds and timber louvers. Square-headed door opening to porch projection having tooled limestone block-and-start surround and replacement timber panelled door, and limestone stepped approach. Painted rendered walls to interior with timber floor and stepped marble platform to former altar. Rendered panelled barrel-vaulted ceiling. Enclosed graveyard to east having low limestone enclosing wall with cast-iron railings and gate. Rubble limestone wall enclosing 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_475 (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.