Ballyroon Mountain

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroon Mountain, from 153 m² to 619,219 m² (61.92 ha, 153.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyroon Mountain in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

• 23 Jun 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, septic tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4604

• 21 Dec 2001Refused

  Restoration and extensions to stone ruin and outbuildings for use as dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/6985

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Sheep's Head SAC 000102
• Special Protection Area: Sheep's Head to Toe Head SPA 004156
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheep's Head 000102

Recorded monuments

• CO138A001 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated on the crest of the ridge which runs NW-SE along the final section of the Sheep’s Head\Muntervary Peninsula, approximately 2.6kms ENE of the tip of the peninsula, and c. 540m NW of the coastline at its closest point (OD c. 235m). Located on uneven rough and rocky terrain with steep slopes to the NW and SE that drop down to the coastline. The surrounding area consists of unenclosed rough pasture with a small lake, Doo Lough, located a short distance (c. 175m) to the W and NW. The adjacent stations in the signal tower\station chain are found at Bere Island (CO128-013----), located c. 10.5kms to the NNW, which survives as low ruins, and the well-preserved site at Mizen Head (CO152A001----), which is located c. 10.6kms to the S. This signal station\tower at Sheep’s Head is located c. 8.5kms WSW of a late medieval church (CO138-015002-) with an associated burial ground (CO138-015001-) at Kilcrohane, and c. 3.5kms SW of a mid-nineteenth century mining complex (CO138-001001-) and associated miners’ settlement (CO138001002-) associated with copper mining located adjacent to the coastline of Bantry Bay at Gortavallig. The low remains of an early nineteenth-century (c. 1804-5) originally two-storey over partial basement level square-plan signal station\tower (ext. dims. c. 5.82m NE-SW x c. 5.8m NW-SE; int. dims 4.3m NE-SW x 4.25 SE-NW; wall T c. 0.78m), built with randomly coursed rubble stone masonry. The walls of the signal station\tower face NE, SE, SW, and NW. The signal tower has collapsed and all that survives is the lower courses to the base of the ground floor and partial basement levels. The base of the signal tower is surrounded by rubble, which also fills the internal space. The structure apparently collapsed c. 1990 but it was recorded as part of the Cork Archaeological Survey in 1988 when it was described as a ‘square tower… two-storey, external walls originally weatherslated. Ground floor door in S wall, 1st floor door (blocked) in W wall with machicolation overhead; bartizans on NE and SE corner. E wall thickens to central point externally to accommodate central chimney flue’. Kerrigan established that the signal mast had been erected and the signal tower completed by 1805 (Kerrigan 1995, 278). The signal station\tower is set towards the NE end of a long narrow sub-rectangular enclosure (ext. dims c. 124m NE-SW x 40m NW-SE), defined by largely collapsed rubble stone walls, which contains a smaller sub-rectangular enclosure (ext. dims c. 22.5m NE-SW x c. 26.4m NW-SE), also defined by largely collapsed rubble stone walls, that surrounds the signal station\tower. A smaller square internal enclosure is located to the S of the signal station\tower. A large irregular enclosure abuts the NE side of the long narrow sub-rectangular enclosure. Hamilton’s 1806 map shows the signal tower located in a narrow rectangular enclosure with a rounded end at the SW (Kerrigan 2003, 37). The Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1841-2, depicts a long sub-rectangular enclosure with rounded ends. The internal sub-rectangular enclosure is depicted, as is the small square enclosure immediately S of the signal station\tower. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the nineteenth century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 16/09/22

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyroon Mountain.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballyroon Mountain, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyroon Mountain.

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.

No address of the register names Ballyroon Mountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballyroon Mountain · Sliabh Bhaile Eiriúin

Area

1,897,713 m² (189.77 ha, 468.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Sheepshead, the unit of the census

Census 2022

198 people lived in 82 households in the Sheepshead electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyieragh, Caherurlagh Mountain North, Eskraha, Laharandota Mountain, Reagh, Tooreen

Placenames

Ballyroon Mountain on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.