Kilvealaton East

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilvealaton East, from 168 m² to 200,209 m² (20.02 ha, 49.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M4Existing Mixed/General Business/Industrial Uses (Built up area)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Green Infrastructure (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.2Special Policy Area (General industry)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  Estates Office of the Health Service Executive (HSE) South wish to apply for planning permission on a greenfield site to the east of the Mount Alvernia Hospital. Newberry, Kilvealton east, Mallow P51XT95 ( Part of which is a Protected Structure), the construction of a single storey, detached, 472 square metre, pitched roofed Ambulance Base with a 9.3sqm detached store with attached services enclosed and ground-mounted photo-voltaic panel array on a 6,434 square metre site with associated siteworks including a new vehicle and pedestrian entrance with selected stone cladded piers accessed off the R619 road, new 2.5m high selected metal fencing on dwarf wall along the south facing boundary with 1.8m selected metal fencing along the north, east and west facing boundaries.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6197

• 15 Jun 2005Refused

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4180

• 17 Jun 2004Withdrawn

  Construction of a community nursing unit

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/4414

• 1 Jul 2003Withdrawn

  Demolition of barn and 2 no. office buildings and construction of a community nursing unit

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/3233

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO032-112001 Designed landscape - belvedere
  Description

  Partially collapsed tower atop hill, on NW side of enclosure (14955), in demesne of Woodfort House (14905). Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map as 'Turret'. Roofless remains of square (int: 5.55m N-S; 5.58m E-W) 2-storey structure built of random-rubble stone construction with some brick. Possible door ope in E elevation, with window ope on 1st floor blocked with brick. South elevation survives to full height with central window on each floor. West elevation collapsed. Two small opes on ground floor of N elevation, large central window ope on 1st floor. Smith (1750, vol. 1, 301) refers to it as 'a turret...with a luxurious prospect of a great tract of country'. 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

• CO032-112002 Enclosure
  Description

  On top of a hill. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure (c. 40m E-W; c. 20m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with rectangular 'Turret' marked in NW quadrant; broken line encloses oval area (c. 30m E-W; c. 18m N-S) on 1936 OS 6-inch map, with 'Gizabo' immediately outside oval area to W. Top of hill, as depicted by broken line on OS 6-inch map, fairly level, densely overgrown and defined by steep scarp; tower (14955) at W end. According to Bowman (1934, 597), 'fort' on summit of hill 'practically levelled'. Enclosure probably associated with tower. 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

• CO032-237 Country house
  Description

  Two-storey house over basement, of mid 18th-century appearance, named 'Woodfort' on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps. Described by Smith (1750, vol. 1, 301) as 'a handsome house'; turret (14955) atop hill to S. Rendered with ashlar quoins- Grove White (1905-25, vol. 4, 321) states house was slated in front. Entrance front (S) of 7 bays: central 3-bay pedimented breakfront framed by ashlar quoins, oculus in pediment; central shallow ashlar porch with pediment flanked by rectangular sash windows. Two bays on either side of breakfront set back with single Wyatt window on ground floor. In 1906 extended by 2 bays on either side in similar style with pedimented tripartite windows in ground floor; at same time new mansard roof put on with attic lit by Wyatt dormer windows (Bence-Jones 1978, 286). Side elevations have central shallow projecting chimney stacks, with windows on either side. Rear hidden behind additions. Now functions as part of nursing home. 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

• Mount Alvernia Hospital, country house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eleven-bay two-storey over basement former country house, built c. 1750, with pedimented breakfront and having advanced ends with two-bay first floor and single-bay ground floor, with T-plan addition to rear with canted ends, and recent flat-roofed extensions to rear. Now in use as hospital. Mansard artificial slate added 1906, having rendered chimneystacks with terracotta chimney pots and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls having limestone quoins, eaves course and moulded cornice, and plinth course. Oculus with timber window and limestone surround to pediment. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows throughout. Front elevation ground floor window openings of advanced ends altered and having tripartite six-over-six pane windows with four-over-four pane sidelights, triangular render pediment, curved render brackets and render surrounds. Bays between brakfront and advanced bays have tripartite nine-over-six pane windows to ground floor, with curvilinear render brackets. Breakfront, porch and first floor of façade and side elevations have four-over-four pane windows. Ground floor of side elevations has six-over-six pane windows. Tripartite four-over-eight pane windows to dormer floor with moulded timber cornices and sills, and some replacement timber windows. Basement has replacement timber casement windows and some six-over-six pane and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Rear elevation of original house and of T-plan addition have mainly six-over-six pane windows, with three-over-six pane to dormer and margined one-over-one pane to ground floor, some of latter having coloured glass. Projecting flat roofed porch addition with render pediment, having flight of diminishing limestone steps with decorative wrought-iron railings. Projecting window to ground floor of western end of T-plan addition having slate roof and pointed arched window openings with stained glass. Square-headed main entrance doorway having replacement timber panelled door with overlight having geometric glazing bars, set in moulded render surround with render Ionic-style pilasters. Religious statue to porch roof. Interior has timber panelled doors having timber moulded surrounds, timber open-well staircase, and square-plan timber Ionic-style fluted columns to first floor hallway. Outbuildings to north-east with pitched roofs, ranged around rectangular-plan courtyard with coursed rubble boundary wall. Multiple-bay outbuilding to east range with coursed rubble walls, pitched slate roof and replacement uPVC lean-to conservatory. Three-bay two-storey north range with pitched slate roof, rendered walls to front and coursed rubble elsewhere, with square-headed replacement uPVC windows, having flat-roofed extension to west and uPVC lean-to conservatory to south. Eight-bay building to south-east with pitched roof, painted rendered walls with painted rendered buttresses, square-headed openings, some with replacement uPVC windows and doors and some blocked, with lean-to glazed uPVC porch. Five-bay two-storey building to south-west with pitched slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows throughout and double-leaf sliding metal and timber battened doors. Multiple-bay multiple-storey redbrick hospital building to south with flat oversailing roofs.

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 Kilvealaton East, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_921 (ZIP).

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 Kilvealaton East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Kilvealaton East · Cill Bhéalada Thoir

Area

477,089 m² (47.71 ha, 117.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshannig, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Dromore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,061 people lived in 953 households in the Dromore electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clyda, Clydaville, Dromore, Firville West, Kilvealaton West

Placenames

Kilvealaton East 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.