Ballybeg West

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybeg West, from 128 m² to 370,976 m² (37.1 ha, 91.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 36 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Sept 2021Conditional

  Retention of existing telecommunications support structure (previously granted permission under Pl. Ref. 06/9098) together with antennas, dishes, equipment cabinets, fencing and all associated site development works. The development will continue to provide high speed wireless broadband and data services.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 21/6532

• 18 Jul 2017Incompleted application

  Retention of an existing 21.6m high telecommunications structure, telecommunication dishes, radio antenna, equipment cabins, fencing & access track as previously granted under Planning Reg. No. 12/4417

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/5843

• 29 May 2014Conditional

  Permission for demolition of existing front porch and extension to rear of existing storey and a half type dwelling, construction of a storey and a half extension to rear and side of existing storey and a half type dwelling house, alterations to existing storey and a half type dwelling house, construction of garage, and relocation of existing entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5135

• 26 Jun 2012Incompleted application

  Retention of an existing 25metre high slimline monopole with antennas, radio link dishes attached together with cabinets, associated equipment and fencing as previously granted under temporary planning permission 06/9098 at Ballybeg West, Buttevant, Co. Cork which forms part of their 3G communications network

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/5392

• 7 Mar 2012Conditional

  Retention of an existing 20m high telecommunications monopole with antennas (total height including antennas 21.6m), equipment container, fencing and associated works as previously granted under Pl. Reg. No. 05/6554 and enlarged fenced site compound area with additional equipment cabins which forms part of their cellular digital communications network

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/4417

• 22 Dec 2011Incompleted application

  Retention of existing 20m high telecommunications monopole with antennae, equipment container, fencing and associated works (as previously granted under Planning Reg. No. 05/6554 forming part of the cellular digital communications network)

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/6677

• 23 Aug 2011Withdrawn

  Construction of a new vehicular site entrance, an agricultural straw storage shed with uncovered clean yard area and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5813

• 5 Feb 2010Conditional

  Construction of garage to side of dwelling for domestic use

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4204

• 6 Apr 2009Conditional

  Dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, entrance & ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5067

• 23 Mar 2009Incompleted application

  Dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, entrance & ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4891

• 11 Mar 2009Incompleted application

  Dwelling house with domestic garage, septic tank, entrance & ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4756

• 31 May 2007Conditional

  Continuation of quarrying of 36ha to include processing of aggregates, landscaping, restoration and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8289

• 21 Jul 2006Conditional

  Construction of 25m high slimline monopole with 3 no. antennas and 3 no. radio link dishes, attached together with associated cabinets, equipment and fencing for new 3G broadband network

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9098

• 6 Jun 2006Incompleted application

  Construction of 25m high slimline monopole with 3 no. antennas and 3 no. radio link dishes attached together with associated cabinets, equipment and fencing

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7821

• 13 Apr 2006Incompleted application

  Construction of 25m high slimline monopole with 3 no. antennas and 3 no. radio link dishes attached together with associated cabinets, equipment and fencing for new 3G Broadbank Newwork

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6396

• 14 Oct 2005Conditional

  Extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7520

• 9 Sept 2005Conditional

  Retention of 20m high telecommunications monopole with antennas, equipment container, fencing, access track and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6554

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 Ballybeg West.

Recorded monuments

• CO017-058 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Built against rock outcrop, in slight depression. Random-rubble limestone walls encase core (c. 8m NW-SE; c. 6m NE-SW). Partially overgrown front elevation (H 5.5m) faces SE, with arched recess (H 1.57m; Wth 2.3m; D 1.71m). Corbelled stones to rear of recess partially collapsed, sloping slabs beneath with blocked stoking hole cut into slab; rectangular ope (Wth c. 0.63m) at base. Iron brackets in front wall, over recess. Top of kiln closed off by wall (H 1.1m) with ope (Wth 2.26m) giving access to funnel area. Funnel infilled. Scatter of coal/culm beside front of kiln. 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.

• CO025-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on NE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Circular, slightly raised area (23m E-W; 19.2m N-S) enclosed by low, grass-covered, earthen bank SW->N and E->SE; scarp N->E. Field boundary, extending E-W, appears to truncate S side of enclosure. Saucer-shaped interior slopes down to NE. 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

• CO025-152 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. Power (1932, 30; 118-9) locates early church site, 'Cill Cluaisi', chief church of the Tuath O Fiannadhuigh 'in a field called Cluain, on the summit of a ridge overlooking the main road...at the bottom of a glen on Denis Coghlan's farm...outline of circular surrounding fence, enclosing an acre or so, is traceable'. Two adjoining fields known as the 'cluain' and the 'far cluain' located. High dome shaped area occurs roughly at centre of 'Cluain' field; steep sided except to ENE where land drops only slightly from summit then rises gently. Crown of summit very stony though no trace of enclosure evident. 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

• CO025-163 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, at the base of a SSE-facing slope and adjacent to a large limestone quarry. This souterrain was discovered in 2000. A collapsed opening (L 2m) revealed a single stone-built chamber (2.75m N-S; 1.3m E-W; H 1.14m). The walls are of random rubble and are corbelled. The N half of the chamber is filled with earth and stones from the collapse. One cracked lintel remains in situ at the S end of the chamber. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO025-169 Souterrain
  Description

  In tillage, on the W side of Ballybeg Glen. According to local information, a souterrain was discovered here in 2001. It was described as stone-lined and contained some bones thought to be animal bones. It was filled in before it could be inspected. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybeg West.

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 Ballybeg West, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballybeg West.

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 Ballybeg West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballybeg West · An Baile Beag Thiar

Area

1,775,378 m² (177.54 ha, 438.71 acres)

Civil parish

Buttevant, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Buttevant, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,965 people lived in 758 households in the Buttevant electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Ballybeg East, Ballybeg Middle, Castle-Land, Grange East, Knockbarry

Placenames

Ballybeg West 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.