Ballynahow (spiers)

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ballynahow (spiers), from 2,788 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres) to 2,788 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Aug 2021Conditional

  To demolish an existing dwelling (P61 EF63) and garage and for the construction of a replacement dwelling on the site, a new septic tank waste-water treatment system to replace the existing septic tank which is to be de-commissoned, a new vehicular access to the site from the public road and all other associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6146

• 29 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construction of 2 no. slatted feed passages

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9236

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 the townland of Ballynahow (spiers).

Recorded monuments

• CO027-104 Cist
  Description

  Discovered during tillage operations in 1938, when contents disturbed and capstone smashed. Investigated by O'Kelly (1946, 78-84); rectangular cist (3ft 2in x 2ft 3in; D 2ft 6in; long axis E-W); side slabs incline inwards; W side slab topped with drystone walling to support capstone; paved with single basal slab. Cist set into pit; lowest 6in rock-cut; backfilled with boulders behind side slabs. Contents of cist included Food Vessel Vase, possibly containing cremated bone, in NW corner, and Pygmy Cup in SE corner; with pile of cremated bone placed in centre of basal slab. Pygmy Cup (smashed by workmen) was bi-conical, with imperforate lugs on shoulder (Kavanagha 1977, fig. 11). Food Vessel Vase (H 0.18m; max. diam. 0.18m) has everted lip; broad bevel on inner surface decorated with four horizontal grooves, incised with herringbone effect; exterior (from base) has three horizontal grooves with stabbed incisions surmounted by two horizontal rows of short vertical incised lines; next is a broad band of hatched triangles, then another row of vertical incised lines, four horizontal grooves with stubbed incisions, a further row of vertical incised lines, four horizontal grooves with stubbed incisions, and a further band of hatched triangles; on the neck are further horizontal grooves with incised vertical lines (O'Kelly ibid., 80-1). (Doody 1986, Cork No. 10; Waddell 1990, 59-60) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO027-105 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On top of a steep incline, overlooking Funshion River c. 100m to N. Rectangular tower (10m E-W; 6.6m N-S), surviving only to one storey and missing most of E wall (see plan in Cotter 1994, 105). Ground-floor doorway near N end of E wall, judging by rebate to take open door visible along E end of N wall. Ground-floor chamber (5.45m E-W; 2.85m N-S) formerly covered by vault (long axis E-W) of which only springings survive. Chamber lit by central window in S and W walls, each with wide square-set embrasure covered by segmental vault, each missing its light; S embrasure enlarged to create wide doorway. Remains of garderobe chute at E end of N wall. Quoin stones have been robbed from NW and SW corners. A castle of the Condons (Healy 1988, 382). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• Ballynahow Stud Farm, house, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built 1856, and remodelled early twentieth century, facing south, with gable-fronted projecting entrance bay to east end built to front of earlier arched vehicular entrance, and having recent projecting timber verandah to front of other bays. Two-bay two-storey return, with four-bay single-storey lean-to to west end of rear and full-height two-bay lean-to to east end of rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered and brick chimneystacks. Decoratively carved timber bargeboards and finial to entrance bay. Rendered walls with pebble-dashed panels, and with limestone date plaque to entrance bay. Remains of ashlar limestone carriage arch to entrance bay, with moulded limestone impost. Four western bays have square-headed window openings, first floor having brick block-and-start surrounds and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and ground floor having glazed timber French doors with paned overlights. Entrance bay has square-headed window openings with five-light timber casement windows having oaned overlights, and having similar two-light window to east side wall. Similar two, three and five-light timber casement windows to rear. Square-headed door opening to west side wall of entrance bay having six-pane overlight to timber panelled door. Rectangular farmyard complex to rear having cobbled surface and ranges to all sides, and further outbuilding to south of house. Eight-bay single-storey west range having two-bay south end elevation, hipped slate roof with timber louvered vents and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods, coursed rubble limestone walls, square-headed openings with brick block-and-start surrounds, windows having limestone sills and some with remains of fixed timber windows, and doorways having timber battened doors, elliptical-arched vehicular entrance with brick voussoirs and timber battened double-leaf doors. Ten-bay single-storey east range having hipped slate roof, half-hipped to south gable end, with coursed rubble limestone walls, and square-headed openings with brick block-and-start surrounds, windows having limestone sills and doorways having timber battened half-doors, and elliptical-arched vehicular entrances with brick voussoirs and block-and-start surrounds. Two-bay single-storey south range with half-hipped slate roof and rendered chimneystack, rubble limestone walls, square-headed door opening and elliptical-arched vehicular entrance with brick block-and-start surrounds. North range comprising L-plan four-bay two-storey section to east with gable-fronted end-bay and four-bay single-storey section to west, having pitched corrugated-iron roof to west section and pitched slate roofs to east section with timber bargeboards and render ball finial to gable-front, rubble limestone masonry walls and square-headed window openings with brick block-and-start surrounds, some with limestone sills and similar openings to gable-fronted bay, first floor, west elevation having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills, square-headed door openings with brick block-and-start surrounds and timber battened doors, and elliptical-headed arches to gable-fronted bay, north and south gables, and east section, having brick block-and-start surrounds and timber battened double-leaf doors. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to south, with half-hipped slate roof, rubble limestone walls, and square-headed window openings with brick block-and-start surrounds and timber casement windows, square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Square-profile rubble limestone piers with render caps having ball finials and single-leaf timber gate. Pair of monolithic, carved limestone octagonal piers with ornate caps, to south. Dressed limestone square-profile piers with rendered walls having render copings and plinth courses.

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).

No address of the register names Ballynahow (spiers) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballynahow (spiers) · Baile na hAbha (Spiers)

Area

820,792 m² (82.08 ha, 202.82 acres)

Civil parish

Glanworth, and its townlands

Barony

Condons And Clangibbon

Electoral division

Glanworth East, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyclogh, Ballyhindon, Ballynahow (murrogh), Ballyvolock, Boherderroge, Downing South, Garraunigerinagh, Knockacappul, Loughnahilly

Placenames

Ballynahow (spiers) on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.