Land parcel 6015648

Area

1,927 m²

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

P5 City Hinterland (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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• CO073-037001 Graveyard
  Description

  On N bank of River Lee; rectangular graveyard (60m E-W; c. 50m N-S) enclosed by stone wall. Still in use; large collection of 18th- and 19th-century headstones to S of church, earliest noted dated 1770. Just N of centre, ruin of C of I parish church of Inishcarra (CO073-037002-). To N of church five gabled mausoleums; most easterly is largest with near identical pedimented gables at E and W ends; most westerly also large and built in neo-Romanesque style; all five suffering from vandalism. Site of early church 'built by St. Senan' (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 386), of which there is no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO073-037002 Church
  Description

  Just N of centre in graveyard (CO073-037001-); ivy-clad ruin of Inishcarra parish church. Remains consist of gabled rectangular nave (13.7m E-W; 8.8m N-S), with semicircular apse (4.55m E-W; 6.3m N-S) added at E end and 4-storey tower (4.5m E-W; 4.8m N-S) at W end. Church originally entered through doorin centre of W wall of nave; when tower added this became internal door with external door now in W wall of tower; both doors have round arches. Nave lit by two windows in S wall; embrasures covered by segmental arches, sills now level with ground outside. High up on heavily ivy-clad N wall of nave, traces of three blocked windows. Holes on W end of S wall probably housed support for wooden stairs to gallery. Segmental chancel arch (Wth 3.4m; wall thickness 1.3m) has wicker centering; now closed by iron railing. Chancel has small window facing E and blocked window to S. Each stage of tower marked by string course; traces of battlements on top. Over W door of tower is inscribed plaque commemorating its erection in 1756 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 238). Along internal S wall of nave is 19th-century railed-in chest tomb of Galway family; another chest tomb in NW corner; inscribed memorial plaque on W wall, just S of door, with dates 1717 and 1724 (Coleman 1913-6, 432). Church here in repair in 1615 (Brady ibid., 236); in 1700 described as 'in repair....there is a handsom altar range'd in; a pulpit desk, and three large good pews' (ibid., 237); still in repair in 1774 (ibid., 239) but abandoned by 1820 (ibid.). Date of nave unclear; chancel probably added in 18th/19th century. New C of I parish church for Inishcarra (CO073-029----) built c. 2 km to NNW in 1818. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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 10 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

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.