Waterhouse

Area

96,247 m² (9.62 ha, 23.78 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

G3 Greenbelt1 (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
R2 Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective

Townland

Waterhouse

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

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 29 recorded monuments.

• CO017-053001 Historic town
  Description

  On W bank of Awbeg River, on main Cork-Limerick road. In 1234 David de Barry obtained licence for weekly market and annual fair 'at his town of Buttevant' (O'Brien 1993, 93); there are references to burgesses from end of 13th century (Thomas 1992, vol. 2, 28); by 1310 the de Barrys had obtained a murage grant (see 14632) for the town (ibid.). Exact area enclosed by town wall uncertain (see 14632). It had a 'linear' main street (Bradley 1985, 448) between bridge (14811) to N and castle (14330) to S and probably two cross-lanes located to N and S of Franciscan friary (14382); rental of 1364 mentions 'Main Street' and 'Mill Lane' (MacCotter and Nicholls 1996, 194). Unusually, parish church (14404) appears to lie outside line of town walls, to S of castle (14330) and within its demesne. Subsequently it declined and 'suffered considerable devastation' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, 337) in 15th century. By 1831 it contained 204 houses and consisted 'principally of one main street extending along the mail coach road' (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 235). Lombard's Castle (14340) fronts onto W side of Main Street; 18th-century market house (14761) at S end of Main Street. (Zajac et al. 1995, 10) 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

• CO017-053002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On W side of main street in Buttevant town (14631). Small rectangular tower (5m N-S; 4m E-W), standing to two storeys, with wall (L 15.2m) extending S from midway along S face of tower. This wall forms E wall of rectangular structure; S wall (L 8.2m) and return of W wall (L 5.6m) also survive. Only S half of ground-floor of tower accessible; this is lintelled chamber (1.1m N-S; 1.6m E-W) entered through ruinous ope in W wall; small slit window in S wall, with groove cut in E jamb acting as loop covering outside of wall to S. First-floor chamber (2.2m N-S; 1.6m E-W) entered through lintelled door in W wall, lit by single-light window in each wall except E where replaced by large rectangular ope (see photograph in Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, opp. 350); chamber covered by rounded wicker-centred vault. Wall to S of tower (T 1.2m) survives to just below height of tower for short section (L c. 1m), terminating at 1st-floor level in N jamb of window embrasure with window seat. Beyond this, central section of wall reduced in height to c. 1.5m. This section has an inserted garage door, immediately S of which is jamb of cut-stone door surround, visible in photograph of 1907 with pointed arch (Grove White ibid.). Southern section of wall (7m-15.2m S of tower) survives to near height of tower, much rebuilt. Blocked ope with pointed arch visible, sill c. 0.5m above pavement level, with blocked square window ope to S, broken end of cross-wall extending E to N; at 1st-floor level, upper part of twin-light ogee-headed window with broken hood moulding visible, also S side of embrasure at broken N end of higher portion. Present end of wall not marked by quoins; turns to W, then to N to form S end of structure. West wall has recess (H 1.7m; Wth 1.6m) towards S end, flat-arched fireplace to N. Broken end of cross wall visible on internal face of E wall; W wall of tower has broken end of cross-wall up to full height of W facade; 1st-floor doorway implies entrance from former structure to W. In early 19th century Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 236) described Lombard's Castle as 'quadrangular building flanked at each angle by a square tower' (present tower would be at NE corner of such plan); however, drawing by Windele of c. 1851 (Grove White ibid., 364) shows building much as today but with gable at S end, in line with present end of S wall, also two tall chimney stacks, one just N of S gable, where fireplace now is, and the second immediately S of tower, atop E wall. The 1842 OS 6-inch map shows tower as part of structure extending further to W (c. 18m E-W); rectangular structure extends to S of tower (L c. 40m N-S including tower; Wth c. 8m), with shallow projections to E and W towards S end (S end of projection is c. 15m S of tower). Drawing and surviving remains indicate building of late 16th/early 17th-century date, probably mansion of wealthy [Lombard] family (Brash 1852a, 96), possibly inhabited by them up to early 1730s (Grove White ibid., 364); used as school in 18th and early 19th century (Smith 1750, vol. 1, 314; Lewis ibid.); reduced and restored by Rev. Buckley in 1886 (Grove White ibid.). 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

• CO017-053004 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  In Buttevant town (CO017-053001-), on the W bank of the Awbeg River. Remains of a Franciscan friary founded c. 1251 by David de Barry (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 243), Lord of Buttevant. David I’s son, David de Barry II (d. 1278) was buried in the chancel of the church. The remains consist in the ruin of a single-aisled church (int. 46m E-W; 7.5m N-S), divided by a collapsed belfry tower into a nave (int. 22.6m E-W; 7.50m N-S) and chancel (int. 17.5m E-W; 7.50m N-S); a transept (int. 11.7m N-S; 7.8m E-W) extends to the S from the E end of the nave, with a side chapel to the E (int. 4.4m E-W; 3.3m N-S). Of the claustral buildings remains only a small square room (c. 3.75m N-S; c. 4m E-W) abutting the E end of the church to the N, interpreted as the sacristy. A crypt on two levels under the E end of the chancel has been interpreted by O'Keeffe (2012) as a possible early castle or hall (see plans: Brash 1852a, opp. 88; Cochrane 1912, 67; Monastic Ireland: http://monastic.ie/tour/buttevant-franciscan-friary/; suggested reconstruction of the entire friary plan in Cotter 2013, 12). It later became an important burial place for the Barrys, and Buttevant remained the principal residence of the senior branch of the family throughout the Middle Ages. By the 16th century the conventual buildings were in ruins, but repaired in 1604 and subsequently re-inhabited by friars (Gwynn and Hadcock, ibid.). It was a ruin again by 1750, though some of the conventual buildings still stood at that time (Smith 1750, vol. 1, 313). The interior of the church has long been used for burial and is densely packed with 18th, 19th and 20th century burials. The remains were 'repaired' in 1851, after the tower had collapsed: breaches in the N walls were built up, fallen debris removed, and fragments of tombs and cut stone were ‘built into portions of the new work’ (Brash ibid., 95-6). Further conservation work was carried out by the OPW in recent years. The friary was located within the walls of the medieval borough, in a central location, which is unusual for a mendicant friary. Buttevant is a planned borough, and the friary may pre-date the planning and may have been incorporated as part of the expansion of the town (Cotter ibid., 3-7). Research has shown that mendicant friaries became an integral part of the planning of Anglo-Norman boroughs, though most friaries were established in a more peripheral position, close to a gate for example (Lafaye 2015, 90-102). Three main phases of construction can be discerned: Phase 1: construction of the nave and chancel; O’Keeffe argues that this happened in two stages – he identified in the S elevation of the church a series of wide arches predating the lancets, that would have contained different windows, and he also suggests the church was originally longer; this would correspond to the first years after the 1251 foundation; later, possibly in the 1260s, the lancet windows were inserted along the S wall of the nave and chancel, and the church shortened (O’Keeffe 2013, 85-7). Phase 2: construction of the S transept, its projecting E chapel and the tower in the late 13th century, possibly in the 1270s or early 1280s (ibid., 87), making them some of the earliest known examples of each structure in a mendicant context. Phase 3: extensive repairs, including the insertion of door surrounds and windows with tracery into earlier embrasures, encasing of the transept, and, based on the fragments embedded in the N wall of the church, a new cloister arcade, in the 15th/early 16th century. The nave is entered through a doorway in the W wall; the door has a pointed arch and jambs in two orders, and hood moulding (see plan and elevation Cochrane ibid., 73); this is inserted into an earlier, wider and higher doorway. The nave also has a blocked doorway at the W end of the S wall, and another blocked doorway near the E end of the same wall connecting into the transept. To the E of the latter is a piscina with a pointed arch, associated with an altar-tomb which would have been inserted in the W wall of the tower at the E end of the nave. An eighteenth-century drawing of the friary completed before the tower collapsed shows that a similar altar-tomb also stood on the other side of the tower central archway (Smith 1750, vol. 1, 313). The nave is lit by six windows: two tall windows high on the W gable, each with inserted twin cusped ogee-headed lights; two similar windows in the S wall (without inserted lights) which have been blocked; and two in the N wall, one inserted at clerestory level with double pointed-arch lights under a quatrefoil, the other much ruined. The nave contains two 13th century tomb recesses, near the centre of N and S walls; both have a rounded cinquefoil moulded arch and jambs with sculpted capitals and bases (see drawings: Brash ibid., 90-1; Cochrane ibid., 74); the N tomb has an inserted covering slab with a Latin inscription and date of 1625 (Brash ibid., 90). A third recess, at the E end of the N wall, has an arch rebuilt using various moulded fragments. To the E of the latter is a low section of rebuilt wall (L c. 8m) faced with cutstone fragments including parts of cloister arcading and medieval graveslabs (see drawings: Brash ibid., opp. 94). Only a stump of the S side of the tower now stands, projecting c. 2m from the S wall of the church. The tower collapsed in 1819 or 1814 (Brash ibid., 89; Cochrane ibid., 68); The 18-century drawing (Smith ibid., 313) shows the W elevation of the intact tower, with a high, slightly pointed arch framed by banded shafts, linking nave and choir; the altar-tomb recesses with low pointed arches on either side of the tower arch; and a rectangular tower with banded angle-shafts regarded as 'unique in Irish towers and perhaps an indication of thirteenth-century date' (Leask ibid., 110-11); a sketch in Brash (ibid., opp. 85) shows a similar profile on the E side. The base of a banded shaft remains at the NW corner of the surviving portion of the tower. A narrow flight of steps on the W side leads up to the 1st-floor level, where a lancet window in the S wall survives. The latter and the ground-floor window directly below are inserted into a tall window embrasure which was partially blocked by the insertion of the tower. A wide pointed archway (Wth 3.65m), towards the E end of the S wall of the nave, leads into the S transept, called ‘St Mary’s Chapel’ by Smith in 1750 (Smith ibid.). The word ‘transept’, though convenient, is in fact not the most accurate to describe these structures, which were chapels with devotional and funerary functions where burials and private masses took place at secondary altars (Lafaye 2016, 138). Above the arch, on the S face, is blank arcading. Both the SW and SE corners of the transept have 'casing' (ibid., 71) with base batter, effectively an additional projecting facing of rubble masonry, edged with quoins, built against the outside face, which Cochrane (ibid.) considered 'necessary owing to a defect in the original foundations'. Originally the S gable had three close-set lancet windows; the 'casing' has blocked both side windows, and the central one has an inserted twin ogee-headed light. The 'casing' also blocks the window near the S end of both the E and the W walls. There are two further windows in the S wall whose embrasures are framed inside by banded shafts with foliated capitals, supporting a pointed rear arch (see drawings Brash ibid., opp. 91); the lights are damaged, but appear to have had double cusped, pointed arches. Part of the blocking of the windows in S gable is by a plaque with FitzGerald of Desmond coat-of-arms (FitzGerald ibid., 443), and a carved architectural fragment underneath. A pointed archway in the E wall of the transept opens into a side chapel which is lit by a window in the E gable, into which a round-arched tomb recess has been inserted. It has a similar 13th-century cinquefoil moulded arch as the two tomb recesses in the nave, and

• CO017-053005 Graveyard
  Description

  On E side of main street of Buttevant, on W bank of Awbeg River. Ruin of friary (14382) occupies SE corner; St Mary's Catholic Church (14735), incorporating earlier tower, occupies NW corner. Subrectangular graveyard (c. 60m N-S; c. 80m E-W); area of burial covers cloister area of friary and also extends inside friary. In use; contains 'a significant number of mid-18th century headstones' (Zajac et al. 1995, 13); memorials and gravemarkers inside friary listed by Fitzgerald (1904-6b, 233-6). 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

• CO017-053006 Mill - corn
  Description

  On S side of Buttevant, on W bank of Awbeg River. Substantial L-shaped mill of 5-6 storeys; S elevation of 7 bays. Built of random rubble with ashlar quoins; thin embattled turrets decorate each corner; flat roof (formerly hipped slated roof: see photograph Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, opp. 372). Wheel-house on E side. Weir diverts water from river almost immediately into wheel-pit. Wheel-pit houses an inward-flowing turbine which transfers power via cogged gear-wheel to line shaft within mill; pulley-wheels along shaft. Wooden floors intact; late 19th-century/early 20th-century machinery survives including winnower, driers, cleaners, hoist and generator. Initials 'NS' inscribed on rough stone on W wall. Erected by Sir James Anderson c. 1810 (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 235). Worked by Brownings until 1865; subsequently by Corbetts and Walsh; in 1885 worked by Wm. R. Oliver who restored mills and watercourses and introduced Robinson Roller system and installed steam and turbine power (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 1, 372-3). 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 Image provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

• CO017-053007 Religious house - unclassified
  Description

  In SE corner of Buttevant town. Forming part of S boundary wall of Convent of Mercy graveyard is older wall (L 18m; max. H 2.8m; T 1m). In centre of older wall is blocked window ope, upper part missing; inside edge of embrasure (Wth 1.3m; min. H 1.2m) formed of cut-limestone blocks. This may be all that remains of 'small trefoil-headed two-light window' noted by Brash (1852a, 87). This identified by Brash (1852a, 87) as probably remains of structure described by Smith (1750, vol. 1, 314) as 'part of another ruin' near the Franciscan friary (14382) and 'said to have been a nunnery, dedicated to St Owen; or, according to others, St John the Baptist' (ibid.); Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 326) note Smith's reference but state that 'no supporting evidence for a nunnery at Buttevant has been found.' This wall might also be remains of RC chapel (14734). 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

• CO017-053008 Market-house
  Description

  On W side of open grassed area at S end of Buttevant. Rectangular 2-storey structure (long axis N-S) of early 18th-century appearance. Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map as long rectangular structure named 'Market House' and on 1906 OS 6-inch map as 'Mkt. Ho.'. Front elevation (E) faces open area, rendered with chamfered stone quoins exposed and concave cornice; side elevations of random-rubble limestone construction. Front elevation 3-bay arcade with plain narrow inserted rectangular door ope at N end; arcading framed by plain ashlar limestone pillars supporting an elliptical arch. Later porch masks central bay of arcade, bays on either side infilled with small windows in blocking wall. String course divides ground and 1st floors. First floor is 4-bay with rectangular sash windows. North elevation has no openings, wall extends from E side of N elevation hiding view of rear from open area. South elevation has long low 2-storey gabled extension. Rear elevation partially overgrown with ivy, two wooden lintelled window opes on 1st floor have been recently blocked. Hipped slate roof, brick chimney rises from centre of N wall. According to Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 235), upper portion used as Court House. In use as community centre. 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

• CO017-053009 Church
  Description

  In Buttevant, forming part of S boundary wall of graveyard attached to Convent of Mercy. Named 'Old R.C. Chapel' on 1842 OS 6-inch map and shown as rectangular structure with projection on N side (off-centre to E); symbol for 'site of antiquity' marks it on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Portion of S wall of church survives (L 18m; max. H 2.8m; T 1m), of random-rubble limestone construction. Blocked window ope in central highest section, with cut-limestone edging stones visible inside may be part of an earlier nunnery (14385). Internal (N) side of wall has statue of St Joseph inserted into a blocked ope. Towards W end of wall is a blocked ope, visible on external (S) side, which appears to be part of doorway with cut stone jambs; similarly blocked ope on E side appears to be remains of window with masonry surround. Plaque on N side of wall, erected 1896, reads 'on the adjoining site stood the old thatched chapel of Buttevant and beneath are deposited the remains of the Rev James Roche P.P. (1779-1807) which were laid at gospel side of the altar, without headstone or inscription'. Second memorial stone in Latin commemorates person named Donegan who died 1774. Lane at S side of wall, named 'Chapel Lane' on 1842 OS 6-inch map and 'Mill Lane' on 1906 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps, leads to corn mill (15205). Replaced in 1830s by present church (14735) on main street. 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

• CO017-053010 Church
  Description

  In Buttevant, in NW corner of graveyard (14550), incorporating earlier tower (CO017-053003-) which is associated with nearby Franciscan friary (14382). Ornate cruciform church (long axis N-S); W and S elevations parallel to street and built of coursed limestone ashlar topped with embattled parapet and hood moulded windows; E and N elevations of random ashlar. Buttresses between bays and on corners, topped with pinnacles on W side. Nave (long axis N-S) lit by three pointed windows in each side wall. Embattled bell tower in angle formed by nave and W transept; similar in size to earlier tower (see 14382) in angle formed by nave and E transept; date plaque of 1831 in S elevation of W tower. Large pointed windows in N chancel wall and in E and W gable-ends of transepts. Interior has plaster concave roof with ornate rib groins; wooden galleries in nave and transepts. Built 1831-7 to design of Charles Cotterel of Cork (Killanin 1962, 116; though Brash (1852a, 95) suggests not yet fully completed in 1852) to replace earlier chapel (14734). Church described in detail by Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 236). 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

• CO017-053011 Fever hospital
  Description

  At E side of Buttevant town; now part of Convent of Mercy school. Named 'Fever Hospital' on 1842 OS 6-inch map, 'School' on 1906 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Rendered, rectangular 2-storey structure (long axis N-S). Gable-ended with chimneys on gables, two other chimneys off-centre. Front elevation (E) of 3 bays; central rectangular door ope with modern door; slim double sash windows with glazing bars and limestone sills. Rear elevation similar to front with addition of central porch. Inserted windows in ground and 1st floor of N gable. South gable hidden behind modern addition. 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

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