Land parcel 5971808

Area

16,572 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres)

Buildings

5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,751 m².

Zoning

G3 Landscape Preservation Zones (Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation)) The objective
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

• 29 Apr 2025Conditional

  A 10-year planning permission for the following Large Scale Residential Development (LRD) comprising 274 no. student accommodation apartments and a total of 957 no. bed spaces. The proposed LRD includes the following works: i) the partial demolition, conservation, redevelopment and extension of the existing former Good Shepherd Convent buildings for student accommodation use; ii) modifications (including the removal of a glasshouse extension) to the former Bake House/Coach House building to provide a community / amenity space; iii) the conservation, redevelopment and extension of the existing Gate Lodge to provide a café, co-working space and security/administrative office use; iv) the demolition of the former hostel building (known as Well House) and demolition of sheds, glasshouses and other ancillary structures on site; v) the construction of 8 no. new student accommodation apartment blocks ranging in height from 3 to 5 storeys; vi) the construction of a 3 storey mixed-use building with commercial/retail use at groundfloor level and student accommodation on the upper floors; and vii) all associated ancillary development works including vehicular/pedestrian access and pedestrian crossing on to Convent Avenue, new footpaths and raised table at the junction of Convent Avenue and Sunday’s Well Road, landscaping, amenity and open space areas, boundary treatments, bicycle and car parking, bin storage, 2 no. ESB substations, public lighting and all other ancillary development at the Former Good Shepherd Convent, Convent Avenue and Buckston Hill, Sunday’s Well, Cork. The proposed development consists of works to and within the curtilage of the former Good Shepherd Convent, which is a protected structure (Ref. No. PS721). The proposed development also consists of works to the exterior of structures which are located within the Sunday’s Well Architectural Conservation Area. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been submitted to the planning authority with the application. The Environmental Impact Assessment Report will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy during office hours at the offices of the Local Authority. The application may be inspected online at the following website set up by the applicant: www.goodshepherdlrd.ie

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2543847

• 13 Feb 2017Conditional

  permission for development at the former Good Shepherd Convent site, Convent Avenue and Buckston Hill, Sunday's Well Cork (3.16 ha). The proposed development will consist of the partial demolition, redevelopment and extension of the existing former Good Shepherd Convent, Orphanage and Magdalene home buildings, and the demolition of all ancillary sheds and structures to facilitate a residential development of 234no. apartments. The proposed development will consist of works to the former Good Shepherd Convent, Orphanage, and Magdalene Home buildings, and former Gate Lodge protected structures (PS721) as well as works within the curtilage of these protected structures. The proposed development also consists of works to the exterior of structures which are located within the proposed Sunday's Well Architectural Conservation Area (ACA)

  Permission · Cork City Council, 1737279

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

• Good Shepherd Convent, convent/nunnery, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached former convent, orphanage and Magdalene laundry, commenced 1872. Comprising central five-bay three-storey block with canted central breakfront and flanked by recessed wings linking to eight-bay two-storey over basement with attic blocks having advanced gabled end bays to east and west with chapel and further buildings to north. Now in derelict condition with buildings to north and chapel no longer extant. Roof to central block gone. Pitched roofs to east and west blocks with red brick chimneystacks, limestone verge coping, eaves corbels and cross finials to gables. Red brick walls with limestone plinths, platbands and continuous sill courses. Varied pointed arch, camber-headed and shouldered window openings with limestone surrounds or polychrome brick dressings. Hood mouldings and brick and limestone relieving arches above some windows with limestone tracery to some ground floor windows. Traces of sash windows remain. Oculi with limestone surrounds to gables. Pointed arch door opening with limestone surround, pair of timber panelled doors and decorative fanlight. Set within own grounds, on south-facing slope with burial ground to east and gate lodge and entrance gates to south-west.

• Gate lodge, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1875, with gable-fronted entrance porch to front (south) elevation and extension to rear (north) elevation. Now disused. Pitched artificial slate roof with red brick chimneystack set at angle on ridge, cut limestone coping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Recent dormer window to south. Red brick walls with yellow brick quoins and string courses and cut limestone plinth. Tudor-arch window openings with alternating vitrified brick voussoirs, stepped reveals and cut limestone sills, now blocked. Square-headed door openings to east and west elevations of porch with cut limestone lintels and stepped reveals, now blocked. Quadrant entrance comprising square-profile ashlar limestone piers to double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gates set in curving red brick side walls with yellow brick platbands, red brick toothed cornice and cut limestone plinth and coping.

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.

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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.