Burton Park

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Burton Park, from 606,403 m² (60.64 ha, 149.85 acres) to 606,403 m² (60.64 ha, 149.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G1Green Infrastructure (Open space, park)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 4 Jul 2017Conditional

  a)Change of use of part of existing coach house building to dairy, kitchen area with store, tea rooms with associated toilet facilities at ground floor level, meeting room and toilet facility at first floor level, including associated internal alterations and elevational changes, b) change of use of part of existing stables building to toilet facilities and bin store, including associated internal alterations and elevational changes, c) construction of 4 no. detached and 4 no. semi-detached dormer style supported housing units, d) all associated site works, including decommissioning of existing septic tanks, provision of new foul pumping station and connection to public foul sewer, alterations to internal boundaries, access roads, pathways, landscaping and parking areas (protected structure ref no. 00036)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5688

• 3 Dec 2013Refused

  Residential development of 55 no. units comprising of 31 no. detached units, 18 no. semi-detached units and 6 no. townhouses, new vehicular access, hardsurface play areas, surfaced car parking, concrete attenuation tank, pumping station and all associated site works and services, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 07/9988 and An Bórd Pleanála Ref. No. PL04.28834

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/6290

• 20 Oct 2009Conditional

  Domestic garage with garden store & ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7380

• 23 Sept 2009Incompleted application

  Construction of domestic garage with garden store & ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7133

• 30 Apr 2009Conditional

  Extension to side of existing dwelling house & domestic garage/fuel store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5366

• 11 Dec 2007Conditional

  Construction of 16 semi-detached houses, 4 end-terrace houses and 2 mid-terrace houses (total 22 houses) with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13008

• 1 Oct 2007Conditional

  Infill of existing low lying lands with topsoil, subsoil and rock fill for future agricultural use

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11322

• 30 Aug 2007Incompleted application

  Infill of existing low lying lands with topsoil, subsoil and rock fill to raise level for future agricultural use and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10618

• 31 Jul 2007Conditional

  Residential development of 55 no. units comprising of 31 no. detached units, 18 no. semi-detached units and 6 no. townhouses, new vehicular access, hardsurface play areas, surfaced car parking, concrete attenuation tank, pumping station and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9988

• 11 Apr 2007Conditional

  Alterations to elevations and construction of fire door and fire escape from first floor of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6943

• 1 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of agricultural entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5550

• 23 Feb 2007Incompleted application

  Alterations to elevations and construction fo new fire door and fire escape

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5394

• 14 Feb 2007Withdrawn

  Residential development of 24 no. semi-detached dwellinghouses and associated site works and services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5063

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 Burton Park.

Recorded monuments

• CO016-057 Country house
  Description

  Immediately E of Churchtown. Two-storey house over basement, built in early 19th century on foundations of late 17th-century house known as 'Burton House'. Entrance front (W) of 7 bays, central 1-storey porch entrance approached by short flight of steps (see photo Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, opp. 30). Plate glass sash windows with plaster surrounds and pediments. Hipped roof behind balustraded parapet broken by 3 gablets. Two large chimneys off-center. Walls of basement noticeably thick and probably contain core of 17th-century house. Castellated entrance gateway with lodge to NW. Walled garden to E, known as 'the bowling green'. Two stone-lined tunnels (H c. 1m; Wth c. 0.6m) recently discovered immediately W and N of house.Burton came into possession of Percival family in 1630s (Loeber 1992, 111). Work on house begun by Sir John Percival 'not long before his death in 1665' (ibid.); plans for house are 'in his (Percival's) hand' but site work supervised by architect William Kenn (ibid., 117). Percival's death halted work for five years but work then resumed using slightly modified version of original plan (ibid., 118-9). House 'emerged from the scaffolds' (ibid.) in early 1670s. Craig (1982, 142) describes house as 'a double pile with a massive row of stacks...a very large staircase to one side of the plan, behind a hall which is still sub-medieval in form and function...and a long gallery' (see plan ibid., 141; Loeber 1992, 119; and reconstruction drawing in Loeber 1973, 26). Much information also survives about layout of grounds which Craig (ibid.) describes as 'set symmetrically within a great system of courtyards, walled gardens and subsidiary buildings, with six spur-footed defensive turrets, the whole 496 feet by 248 feet exclusive of the flankers, totaling nearly three acres' (see Loeber 1973, opp. 1, 26; Loeber 1992; de Breffny & ffolliott 1975, 66-71). House burnt in 1689 and though plans were drawn up in 1707 for a replacement classical house (Loeber 1979, 52), financial difficulties prevented its execution (ibid., 59). In 1750 Smith (1750, vol. 1, 308) noted 'walls of the house still remaining, which show it to have been a large elegant building, mostly of hewn stone'. House subsequently rebuilt as 'a new 2-storey house...in the late-Georgian period' (Bence-Jones 1978, 50). Later acquired by Purcell family who 'refaced it in Victorian cement and gave it a high roof with curvilinear dormer-gables' (ibid.); this work probably carried out by Matthew Purcell (1852-1904), who restored house according to Grove White (1905-25, vol.1, 333). House now occupied by Ryan-Purcell family. 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

• Burton Park, gates/railings/walls, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gate lodge, built c. 1890, comprising central section with Tudor arched carriageway straddling entrance road, having flanking lower single-bay screen walls. Flat roof having roughcast rendered castellated parapet with blind loops and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roofs to flanking screen walls absent, formerly pitched. Inner and outer face of gateway have lined-and-ruled rendered walling with limestone plinth, archway itself having tooled limestone quoins, string course and blind cross loops. Outer face has carved limestone plaque to parapet bearing family crest and screen walls have cut limestone name plaques. and blind Tudor-arched openings to screen walls, with tooled cut limestone sills. Archway has cut limestone block-and-start surround with raised keystone, moulded imposts, inner side of gateway having decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Set in curvilinear rendered boundary walls.

• Burton Park, country house, 1660–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement country house, built in phases between c. 1665 and 1820, and refaced and reroofed c. 1890, with attic storey, projecting porch. Lean-to an three-storey additions to rear and further two-storey addition to rear of three-storey addition. Flat roof addition to south gable has metal water tank to roof. Lean-to addition incorporates oratory. Hipped slate roofs to main block and two-storey additions, with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks with moulded copings, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered balustraded parapet to front and side elevations, incorporating curvilinear gablets to attic storey windows. Pebbledashed walls with smooth render eaves course, render quoins to ends and to each side of entrance bay, moulded render string courses to sill levels and to first floor window head level, and channelled rendered walls to basement. Render plaque bearing family crest to central gablet of parapet. Smooth rendered walls to porch, with moulded render impost course, and having roundel motifs flanking head of doorway. Square-headed window openings, having tooled limestone sills and moulded render surrounds, those to ground floor surmounted by Italianate moulded render frieze and pediments, all having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Some double windows to rear two-storey addition. Paired square-headed window openings to porch having render label-mouldings and fixed timber windows. Round-headed door opening to porch having moulded render archivolt with prominent keystone, timber panelled doors flanked by sidelights and surmounted by overlight. Splayed cut limestone steps to front of porch having rendered balustrade and cut limestone piers. Curvilinear screen walls flanking front of house, with rendered walls having moulded copings and cut limestone plinths, render impost course, and round-headed openings with moulded archivolts. North wall has blind opening and leaded stained-glass window to former doorway flanking decorative wrought-iron gateway and south wall has blind openings flanking similar gateway to north wall. Single-storey stable block attached to north side of house, and multiple-bay two-storey stable block opposite to east, with pitched slate roofs, cast-iron rainwater goods and roughcast rendered walls. Outbuildings to north of stableyard approached by wrought-iron double-leaf gates set in cut limestone piers. West building has pitched artificial slate roof, rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls and incorporates dwelling, and east building has pitched corrugated-iron roof and roughly coursed limestone walls with elliptical-arched opening having red brick voussoirs.

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 Burton Park, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Burton Park.

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 Burton Park with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Burton Park · Páirc Burton

Area

634,619 m² (63.46 ha, 156.82 acres)

Civil parish

Churchtown, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Churchtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,286 people lived in 427 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyadam, Churchtown, Clashelane, Clashganniv, Imogane, Leap

Placenames

Burton Park 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.