Yellowford

Area

472,362 m² (47.24 ha, 116.72 acres)

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 595 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Yellowford

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• CO067-021 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  Directly on N bank of Womanagh river; circular tower (int. diam. 9.25m; ext. diam. 16.75m), surviving to just over 1st floor level; large gap in wall to S, vertical structural cracks in N and W walls. Distinct base batter; traces of plaster finish on external and internal faces. Ground floor door, in wall to S, missing surround but drawbar socket on E side shows sill higher than present ground level. Window opes to W, N and E, widely splayed due to batter; embrasures covered by lintels in front and vault to rear. Ground floor covered by wicker-centred dome of which only springing courses survive. Mural stair, of which only a few steps survive, rises from W side of ground-floor doorway; most of S wall gone at 1st floor level. First floor windows to N and E: broken opes covered by semicircular vaults; traces of stone seats in both. Shell of fireplace and flue in wall to NW, facing stones robbed. Mural chamber to W contains garderobe; much of inner and outer wall of chamber fallen; covered by plank-centred semicircular vault. Roof over 1st floor had wooden supports: opposite socket holes for single large beam on wall face to W and E; this supported nine joists, the socket holes for which survive on wall face to N and S (see plan and section Hartnett 1945, 43). On wall to E, just above level of these joist holes, is squinch arch, supported by masonry corbels; Hartnett (ibid, 44) interpreted this as 'a bed niche'. Hartnett (ibid, 42) considered tower 'dated from historical and architectural evidence to the thirteenth century'; inquisition of 1321 into property of Richard de Clare mentions 'a round tower built of stone' at Inchiquin; an inquiry of 1350 reported 'one stone tower worth nothing as it wants great repair' (ibid., 45). Wicker-centred dome suggest tower repaired in 15th/16th century; by this stage property of Earls of Desmond, lived in by 'the old Countess of Desmond' until her death in 1604; apparently damaged by 'Cromwell's guns' in 1649 (Healy 1988, 139). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1598 (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.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.