Ballyvireen

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvireen, from 7 m² to 231,347 m² (23.13 ha, 57.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

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

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

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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 Ballyvireen.

Recorded monuments

• CO143-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 28m) defined by earthen bank E->SSW (H 0.8m) and external fosse E->SSW (D 0.55m); field boundary NNE->E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO143-013 Cupmarked stone
  Description

  In pasture, overlooking Roury river to E. Roberts (1985) describes a 'large stone slab with many deeply inscribed cup-marks'. Stone broken up and buried c. 1985. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO143-014 House - fortified house
  Description

  Three storey with attic, on W bank of Roury river, in secluded valley; overlooked from W, N and E. Partially ivy-clad; upper parts of walls in poor condition. Rectangular block (21.8m E-W; 8m N-S) with towers at NE (7.35m N-S; 8.1m E-W) and NW (7.4m N-S; 8.3m E-W) corners and at centre of S wall (4.6m N-S; 8.2m E-W). S tower appears to have contained wooden newel stairs (Samuel 1984, 68-71). Door and window surrounds poorly preserved but surviving lights square-headed with transome and mullion divisions; external hood mouldings with stepped terminals. Main block had central partition lobby at all levels judging by paired doors from stairway. House well furnished with fireplaces which fed seven stacks, of which four survive; largest fireplace at ground level in NW tower, probably the kitchen. NE tower has only basement in house. Five sets of machicolations cover most external walls; remaining walls covered by nine gun loops at ground level. Enclosure on N side of house had buildings along W side; some traces surviving, including large fireplace with bread-oven. Built by Sir Walter Coppinger early in 17th century (Donovan 1876, 208); burnt in 1641 (Smith 1815, vol 1, 208), probably unoccupied since then. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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

• Coppingers Court, castle/fortified house, 1600–1620 · National interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan four-storey multiple-bay fortified house, built c.1610, now ruinous. Pitched gables with tooled limestone chimneystacks, having some tooled limestone gable copings. Roughly dressed and coursed rubble stone walls with sections of lime render. Tooled limestone stringcourse to second floor at impost level. Rubble stone machicolations on tooled limestone corbels. Square-headed window openings with dressed and tooled limestone sills. Some tooled stone hood mouldings and surrounds. Single four-light limestone frame with mullion, transom, and label moulding. Square-headed door openings, surrounds and lintels now absent. Set within open field.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pitched roof flanking bays to sides (east, west). Square-headed window openings with stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Outbuildings to sides (east and west) and rear (north). Set within own grounds.

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 Ballyvireen, 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 high, 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 Ballyvireen.

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

Name

Ballyvireen · Baile Uí Mhirín

Area

1,161,288 m² (116.13 ha, 286.96 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Derry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

512 people lived in 194 households in the Derry electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaclogh, Derry, Downeen, Drombeg, Gallane, Killeenleagh, Rouryglen, Tralong

Placenames

Ballyvireen 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.