Phale Lower

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Phale Lower, from 2,742 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres) to 600,926 m² (60.09 ha, 148.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Phale Lower 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.

• 30 Jun 2004Conditional

  Extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4920

• 27 Jun 2000Conditional

  Demolition of existing extension & construction of two storey extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/3882

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 Phale Lower.

Recorded monuments

• CO108-038001 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Pair of late medieval ogee-headed window lights, with decorated spandrels, built c. 0.4m apart into N wall of Phale Court but probably from nearby Phale Castle (CO108-04002-). Phale Court rebuilt after fire in 1919, on site of earlier house demolished c.1814 (Collins 1950, 111). Farmbuildings to rear of house have a datestone of 1781. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO108-038002 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Farmyard complex, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic farmhouse, built c.1880, having gable-fronted two-bay single-storey addition to side (west) and gabled dormer windows to front (north). Extensive farmyard complex attached to side (east) and rear (south). Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, eaves course and gable copings with remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills throughout, having red brick block-and-start surrounds and exposed limestone lintels with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square- and camber-headed door openings having red brick voussoirs and timber battened doors. Farmyard complex arranged around courtyard to south. Multiple-bay single-storey open front building to north range, having pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron supporting columns to open front (north) and rear with recently inserted rubble stone and concrete blocks to rear. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to east range, having pitched slate roof. Rubble limestone walls having exposed eaves course. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills and cut limestone voussoirs with remains of cast-iron casement windows. Square-headed door openings having cut limestone voussoirs and remains of replacement corrugated-iron doors. Seven-bay two-storey outbuilding to south range having pitched slate roof with remains of rendered chimneystack, render gable copings and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls having rubble limestone eaves course. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills, red brick voussoirs and remains of timber framed windows. Square-headed door openings having red brick voussoirs with double-leaf timber battened doors. Rubble limestone enclosing walls having rubble limestone copings, square-profile gate piers with cast-iron double-leaf and replacement aluminium gates.

• House, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, having two-storey return with lean-to additions to rear (north). Flat-roofed single-bay single-storey addition to west elevation. Pitched slate roof having exposed projecting roof beams to eaves course, rendered chimneystacks, gable copings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having rendered sills, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening having replacement glazed timber door. Rendered enclosing walls having square-profile rendered gate piers and timber gate.

• Phale Court, country house, 1915–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey with dormer attic and over basement country house, having gable-fronted breakfront end bays. Five-bay two-storey over basement block to rear (west) with three-bay two-storey hipped roofed canted bay window to gabled end-bay. Single-storey additions to side (north) elevations of wing and rear block. Built c.1780, partially demolished 1814, rebuilt following fire 1919. Pitched slate roofs throughout having rendered chimneystacks, gable copings, eaves course and cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls with plinth throughout. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills throughout, having uPVC and timber casement windows with some one-over-one and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to single-storey extensions. Pair of medieval ogee-headed windows to side (east) elevation of wing, having chamfered limestone block-and-start surround and decorative carved voussoirs. Square-headed door openings throughout, having timber panelled door with overlight to interior of recent lean-to porch. uPVC door to porch having rendered stepped approach flanked by walls with decorative carved panels, copings and capped square-profile piers with square-headed niche openings housing carved animal figures. Rendered wall surrounding rear yard having crenellated parapet surmounting corbels.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Phale Lower.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Phale Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Phale Lower · An Fial Íochtarach

Area

1,168,894 m² (116.89 ha, 288.84 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymoney, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (East Division)

Electoral division

Ballymoney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymoney electoral division: 885 people in 323 households; 71% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dromidiclogh West, Kilcaskan, Kilcaskan, Knockaneady, Manch East, Phale Upper

Placenames

Phale Lower 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.