Waterhouse

Area

581,411 m² (58.14 ha, 143.67 acres)

Buildings

7 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,236 m².

Zoning

G3 Greenbelt1 (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective

Townland

Waterhouse

Planning applications on this parcel

• 2 Oct 2026Awaiting technical validation

  planning permission to construct a new part one storey, part two storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house with alterations and a new bin store, permission for retention of the existing domestic garage and permission to remove the decorative arches to the side elevations of the existing dwelling and garage, with all associated alterations, site and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2551

• 9 Sept 2026Invalid - prepare letters

  planning permission to construct a new extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house with alterations, permission for retention of the existing domestic garage and permission to remove the decorative arches to the side elevations of the existing dwelling and garage, with all associated alterations, site and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2351

• 14 Dec 2020Conditional

  Construction of a cubicle house and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6831

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  Construction of a slatted feeding passage and an extension to existing slatted unit to include cubicle house and milking parlour, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6495

• 19 May 2014Conditional

  Two-storey dwelling, entrance and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5029

• 2 May 2014Incompleted application

  Two-storey dwelling, entrance and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4903

• 17 Aug 2007Conditional

  Construction of conservatory extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10351

• 16 Jul 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of conservatory extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9616

• 23 May 2007Incompleted application

  Conservatory extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8023

• 4 May 2007Conditional

  Demolition of outhouses and construction of slatted shed with underground slurry tanks, calving pins, concrete apron and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7520

• 10 Feb 2005Conditional

  Extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/695

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 around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 13 recorded monuments.

• CO017-056 Kiln - lime
  Description

  On W side of disused road, built against limestone rock outcrop. Random-rubble limestone walls encase core. Front elevation (H 5.1m; Wth 6.5m) faces E; brick-arched recess (H 2.4m; Wth 2.16m; D 1.27m), second lower inner arch with stoking hole, sloping slabs at rear. Funnel infilled. 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

• CO017-057001 Country house
  Description

  Remains of overgrown late 17th/early 18th century 1-storey house, on NW bank of Awbeg River, immediately NW of clapper bridge (14839). Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map, as 'Water Ho.'; marked as 'in ruins' on 1902 OS 6-inch map. L-shaped in plan, SW arm longer than SE. Most of inner wall faces collapsed. Remains of 3 opes in external SE wall and 2 opes in external SW wall. NW pier of bridge butts onto E corner of house, suggesting an association between house and bridge. Large fireplace with wooden lintel in SW arm, divides area into two rooms; fireplace contains brick-lined oven (0.88m x 1.22m). Corner fireplace in S corner of L, and possible remains of another corner fireplace in N corner of NW arm. Springfield House (14849) on river bank opposite to SE. 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

• CO017-057002 Clapper bridge
  Description

  On NW bank of Awbeg River. Remains of foot bridge (L c. 35m; long axis NW-SE) survive, extending from E corner of Water House (14940). Bridge not marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map, river shown as being wider (Wth c. 35m) flowing along edge of Water House. According to local information, river dredged and narrowed (Wth c. 20m) in 1900s and SE section of bridge removed, leaving remainder on dry land - see photograph by Jones (1906, 200) and plan by O'Keeffe and Simington (1991, 309). Seven random-rubble limestone piers (H 0.7m-1m; Wth 0.96 to 1.37m ) remain; span increases from NW to SE. Piers bridged by long limestone slabs (L 1.1m to 2.5m). Thin strip of metal inserted into centre of three wider slabs. According to Grove White (1905-1925, vol. 4, 316), clapper bridge used by monks of Ballybeg Abbey (14379) which is located c. 450m to SE, to access grist mill somewhere in Waterhouse townland. May be associated with 'Monk's Pond' to rear of Springfield house (14849) on SE bank of river. 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

• CO017-057003 Fish-pond
  Description

  This fish-pond is referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 545-6) under the entry (no. 14379) for a priory (CO017-059001-). The reference to the fish-pond is as follows: 'Fish-pond (CO017-057003-) in grounds of country house c. 550m to ENE known locally as 'Monk's Pond', may have been associated with priory…'. Also referred to in the same publication under the entry (14849) for the country house (CO017-060----). The reference to the pond in this latter entry is as follows: 'Shallow rectangular stone-lined pond (c. 30m NW-SE; 4.35m SW-NE) to NW, known locally as 'Monk's pond'; overflow outlet at NW end covered by large stone slab. Possibly associated with Clapper bridge (14839) in line to NW.' 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

• CO017-059001 Religious house - Augustinian canons
  Description

  In flat pasture, c. 200m S of Awbeg River. This Augustinian Priory was founded by Philip de Barry in 1229 and dedicated to St Thomas Becket (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 159). It was dissolved in 1541, and possibly re-established for a time (ibid., 153). It was in ruins by 1750 (Smith 1750, vol.1, 316), and the centre and W end of the church were subsequently occupied by a farmhouse and out offices until the early 20th century (Grove White 1905-25 vol. 1, 121). The remains consist in a complex of ruined 13th-century monastic buildings comprising a church with a cloister on the S side (the W end of church is in line with the mid-point of the cloister) and claustral ranges to the S, W and E (see plan in Shine 1993, 108). The priory was renovated in the late-medieval period, when a 4-storey rectangular tower was built against the N end of the W claustral range and a tower was inserted into the W end of the church. A late-medieval rectangular tower (CO017-059002-), c. 70m to the N, and a columbarium (CO017-059003-), c. 25m to SE, are also part of the monastic complex. The Church (int. 50.8m E-W; 8.25m N-S) is best preserved at the W and E ends. Between these all of the N wall is missing, and only fragments of the S wall stand, much of this recently rebuilt. The W end wall has a rebuilt ground-floor doorway, near the N end; the rear-arch of the embrasure is built of well-cut sandstone blocks, some with diagonal tooling. Overhead and in the centre of the wall is a pair of windows: The N light has a rounded arch, the S light is bluntly pointed; though both lights are separated by walling externally, inside the embrasures meet at a point where there is 'a banded shaft which bears a capital of foliage with three small human faces' (Leask 1960, vol. 2, 146. Leask (ibid.) dates these windows to the late 13th century. O’Keeffe (1999, 138) states that the church was originally longer and was shortened, as also occurred in the Augustinian priory in Newtown Trim. High on the W end of the S wall is a wide window embrasure with a segmental rear arch, the light missing. Doorway and windows are partially obscured by the insertion of a belfry tower within the W end of the church. The tower consists of four masonry piers raised to eaves level, supporting a wicker-centred groin vault. The SW pier contains spiral stairs which give access to the area over the vault. Two carved animal heads on the underside of the vault have wide circular mouths which functioned as rope-holes. There is a carved human head at the springing of the vault on both western piers. The area over the vault is much ruined; at the E end the lower courses of a square structure (L c. 2m) survive, which may be the remains of a bellcote as it is positioned directly above the rope-holes. The S wall of the church has two doorways giving entry to the N cloister walk: a blocked doorway, partially obscured by the SE pier of the belfry tower, and a second door 1.6m to the E. The latter has a pointed-arch door surround, facing into the cloister, which is late-medieval in appearance, but the doorway itself may be original. A further 5.2m to the E of the latter is the W ingoing of an ope, possibly a similar doorway but the only surviving feature is a chamfered jamb-stone on the inside edge of the base. The SE corner of the church stands to near full height, preserving the S ingoing of the E window and the E ingoing of the window in the S wall; the latter retains part of the banded shaft. A series of three semi-circular recesses in the inner face of the S wall 3.4m W of the SE corner may be the remains of a sedilia. A stone-built burial chest is immediately W of the latter, on the inside of the wall face. There is a pair of similar burial chests opposite in the N wall (see plan in Shine ibid.). The E half of the N side of the cloister is formed by the S wall of the church, while the W half of the wall is extensively rebuilt, linking the S wall of the church to the N wall of the W claustral range. Corbels and roof flashing on the exterior face of the S wall of the church indicate the line of the lean-to roof over the cloister walk. The W wall of the cloister survives though not to its original height; The S wall is missing. Doorways in the E and W walls of the cloister formerly gave access to the claustral buildings, of which few traces remain though the outline of the W and S ranges is discernible. Centrally placed on the E side is the base of an elaborate doorway (Wth 2m) facing into the cloister, identified by Leask (1958, 146) as the entrance to the chapter house; each side consists of the base of three rounded engaged pillars, in line; the inside jamb has round filleted moulding at either edge. To the N and S of the doorway, and 3.35m from it, a vertical scar on the outside face of the wall probably marks the side walls of the chapter house; there are no remains of the claustral range on this side. A vaulted passage (L c. 8m) extends S from the SE corner of the cloister walkway. Broken masonry protruding to the W from the N end of the passage indicates the line of the S wall of the cloister. A low wall runs W from the S end of the passage; It is probably the base of the S wall of the refectory; a short flight of mural stairs may have led to a pulpitum. The masonry block with a stone shelf at the SW corner of the cloister was identified by Leask (ibid., 146) as the remains of the laver; this stone was set in its present position by the OPW. Outside the NW corner of the cloister, c. 18m W of the church is a late-medieval 4-storey rectangular tower. The tower is entered via a lintelled ground-floor doorway at the N end of the E wall; from a small vestibule (1m x 1m), mural stairs within the S wall lead to the 1st-floor, and a lintelled door leads W to a ground-floor chamber (3.9m N-S; 3m E-W). The latter is lit by double-splayed window embrasures in the N and W walls; corbels overhead indicate a wooden floor. The door at the top of mural stairs leads to a 1st-floor vaulted chamber, which is lit by slit windows in the N and W walls. From the 1st-floor level spiral stairs rise in the SE corner to the 3rd floor. A second-floor mural chamber in the E wall is accessed from spiral stairs; the main chamber (1.2m E-W; 3.1m N-S) is roofed by a vault (long axis N-S). There is a single chamber (4.6m E-W; 4.8m N-S) on the 3rd floor; the vaulted splayed window embrasure in the E wall has a single cusped ogee-headed light; a similar embrasure in the N wall has twin cusped ogee-headed light, the mullion missing; the N ingoing of an embrasure with window seat survives in the W wall. Traces of a spiral stairs rises from this chamber in the SE corner. Walls are collapsed above this level. There is a rectangular tower (CO017-059002-; 9m E-W; 6.8m N-S) to the N of the church, and a circular columbarium (CO017-059003-; int. diam. 4.6m) to the SE. A fish-pond (CO017-057003-) in the grounds of a country house (CO017-057001-) c. 550m to the ENE is known locally as 'Monk's Pond', and may have been associated with the priory. Also probably associated with the site is the clapper bridge (CO017-057002-) over the river c. 450m to the NW, and the series of earthworks (CO017-059004-) in the field bounding the S side of the river immediately to the NE of the complex. This is a National monument in State Guardianship (no 301). 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. See also: Tadhg O’Keeffe, 'Anglo-Norman Monastery: Bridgetown Priory and the Architecture of the Augustinian Canons in Ireland' (Cork: Gandon Editions, 1999). Photographs attached CO017-059001-_1: Aerial view of the priory, from SE. CO017-059001-_2: Exterior of the W façade of the church, from W CO017-059001-_3: View of W end of nave and W tower, from E. CO017-059001-_4: Wi

• CO017-059002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  This rectangular tower (9m E-W; 6.8m N-S) is located to the N of Ballybeg Augustinian Priory (CO017-059001-). It is entered via a door with a three-centred arch near the N end of the W wall; the ground-floor chamber (4.8m N-S; 3.3m E-W) is lit by a slit window in a square-set embrasure in the N wall and slit windows in double-splayed embrasures in the E, W and S walls; there is an attic overhead under a wicker-centred vault (axis N-S); part of a vault collapsed at the S end. The original access to the floor above the vault is uncertain. The Garderobe chute exits at the N end of the E wall; immediately S of the latter, projecting masonry indicates the remains of a wall extending to the E; similar masonry at the N end of the W wall indicates a wall extending W from the tower. This is a National Monument in State Guardianship (no. 301). 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. Photographs attached CO017-059002-_01: aerial view of tower, from SE. CO017-059002-_02: View of the exterior, from NW. CO017-059002-_03: View from the NE, with priory in the background. CO017-059002-_04: View of the W façade, from W. CO017-059002-_05: Interior of the tower, from N. Date of upload/revision: 8 March 2017.

• CO017-059003 Dovecote
  Description

  In flat pasture, to the SE of Ballybeg Augustinian Priory church. This circular columbarium (CO017-059003-; int. diam. 4.6m) is entered via a ground-floor door on the W side. The Interior wall face has continuous rows of nesting boxes (Wth 0.22m; H 0.2m; 32 boxes in each circuit), in 11 tiers up to a height of c. 5m (see plan and section in Brash 1852b, 266-7). Above this, the wall inclines gently inward for a height of c. 2m, above which it is corbelled in steeply, leaving a circular opening at the top. High up on the exterior wall face on the N side is a lintelled door giving access to mural stairs leading to the top of the tower, possibly to a wall-walk. Section of projecting masonry to the E of the door indicates the wall extending N from the columbarium, probably with a wall-walk, from which the door was accessed. This is a National Monument in State Guardianship (no. 301). 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. Photographs attached: CO017-059003-_01: View of columbarium from NW. CO017-059003-_02: Interior of columbarium, from W. CO017-059003-_03: View of from W, with ground-floor door. CO017-059003-_04: View from N, with lintelled door at top of tower. CO017-059003-_05: View from SE, with priory in the background. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO017-059004 Earthwork
  Description

  In low-lying boggy pasture, between Awbeg River to S and Ballybeg abbey (14379) to N. Field, bordered by river to S and road to N, contains many low undulations. Immediately S of road, and 'roughly in line with the east wall of the abbey' (O Rahilly 1994, site 11), is trapezoidal enclosure (36m E-W; 40m N-S), enclosed by low earthen bank on E and W sides and by scarp to N. Low earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.5m) runs from NW corner of platform to stream bed to NW (L 38m). In same field, close to bank of river and N of platform, are three irregular mounds of earth and stone (average H 1.5m). Aerial photographs (Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould) show further earthworks in this field as shadow sites. Platform likely to be part of monastic complex; mounds near river may be result of river drainage or could be associated with mill (15228) shown in approximately this position on Down Survey (1655-6) barony map. 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

• CO017-059005 Standing stone
  Description

  In low-lying boggy pasture, to S of Awbeg River. Noted during archaeological survey in advance of proposed Buttevant bypass. Described by O'Rahilly (1994, 5) as 'a large upright roughly surfaced stone, measuring 2m east-west by 0.6m thick by 1m high', and classified as 'possible standing stone'. 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

• CO017-059006 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  In low-lying boggy land, immediately S of Awbeg River and N of Ballybeg priory (14379). Mill shown on Down Survey (1655-6) barony map in this area. Three grass-covered earthen mounds, with some stone rubble, on S bank of river, may be associated with mill. Central mound (c. 9.5m N-S; c. 9m E-W; H c. 1.75m) has flat top. Second mound (c. 25m E-W; 10m N-S), c. 8m to E, slightly irregular in plan with centre rising to H 1.75m. Third mound (c. 4m N-S; 5m E-W; H 1.25m) to W of central mound; low earthen bank extends c. 7m to SE from S end of mound. Other earthworks (13824) in field may be associated with mill, including rectangular enclosure in S half of field; second mill (15243) shown on Down Survey (1655-6) barony map on N bank of river. 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

And 3 more.

Architectural heritage

• Clapper Bridge, foot bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Foot bridge, erected c.1860, comprising five surviving spans of stone slabs resting on rubble stone piers, on north bank of Awbeg River, apparently formerly crossing width of river. River section removed during dredging c. 1910. Bridge gave access to Water House, now ruined, to north-west, apparently of early eighteenth-century date and having wall oven. Concrete foot bridge to west.

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Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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Terrain model

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Flooding

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