# Ballyroon Mountain, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcrohane, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Sliabh Bhaile Eiriúin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,897,713 m² (189.77 ha, 468.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 17,300 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcrohane, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilcrohane.md - Barony: Carbery West (West Division) - Electoral division: Sheepshead, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/8612 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40804 - Centre: latitude 51.552945, longitude -9.811926 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroon Mountain, from 153 m² to 619,219 m² (61.92 ha, 153.01 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2258689: 619,219 m² (61.92 ha, 153.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258689.md - Parcel 2258687: 516,820 m² (51.68 ha, 127.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258687.md - Parcel 2233120: 189,706 m² (18.97 ha, 46.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233120.md - Parcel 2233115: 181,809 m² (18.18 ha, 44.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233115.md - Parcel 2258686: 109,437 m² (10.94 ha, 27.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258686.md - Parcel 2233121: 95,086 m² (9.51 ha, 23.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233121.md - Parcel 2233123: 31,190 m² (3.12 ha, 7.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233123.md - Parcel 2258691: 28,734 m² (2.87 ha, 7.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258691.md - Parcel 2258685: 26,516 m² (2.65 ha, 6.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258685.md - Parcel 2233125: 23,479 m² (2.35 ha, 5.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233125.md - Parcel 2233118: 17,300 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233118.md - Parcel 2258690: 13,394 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258690.md - Parcel 4898034: 12,429 m² (1.24 ha, 3.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4898034.md - Parcel 2233122: 10,953 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233122.md - Parcel 2258684: 8,260 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258684.md - Parcel 2258688: 7,692 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258688.md - Parcel 2233124: 7,362 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233124.md - Parcel 2233116: 1,188 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233116.md - Parcel 2233117: 874 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233117.md - Parcel 5902258: 281 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5902258.md - Parcel 2233119: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233119.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 23 Jun 2004, Cork County Council 04/4604: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse, septic tank and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/4604 - 21 Dec 2001, Cork County Council 01/6985: Refused. Permission. Restoration and extensions to stone ruin and outbuildings for use as dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=01/6985 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Sheep's Head SAC, site code 000102, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000102 - Special Protection Area: Sheep's Head to Toe Head SPA, site code 004156, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004156 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheep's Head, site code 000102 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO138A001: Signal tower, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO138A001----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyroon Mountain. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyroon-mountain.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyroon-mountain.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyroon-mountain.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyieragh: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyieragh.md - Caherurlagh Mountain North: https://everytownland.com/cork/caherurlagh-mountain-north.md - Eskraha: https://everytownland.com/cork/eskraha.md - Laharandota Mountain: https://everytownland.com/cork/laharandota-mountain.md - Reagh: https://everytownland.com/cork/reagh.md - Tooreen: https://everytownland.com/cork/tooreen-45227.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyroon-mountain - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/ballyroon-mountain