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Your Community Newsletter September / October issue. Angel Guardian Community Preschool Ashmount, Silversprings.MANY Issue 104 2019 THANKS FOR ISSUE 100 CHRISTMAS 2018 YOUR VALUED On Tuesday 25th June 2019 Free Preschool Places Available SUPPORT THROUGHOUT In the Mayfield CDP Centre Enroll now for September 2019 THE LOCAL We celebrated and appreciated ELECTIONS Noreen Curtin - Morning and Afternoon sessions Former Chair and Director of CDP Management for all Purpose built facility her time and dedication to the Centre Nurturing and creative environment Qualified and experienced staff Registration forms available by contacting the Person in person or call 021-4960027 THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR LOYAL SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE LOCAL ELECTIONS MAYFIELD MATTERS YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER MAYFIELD CDP COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE 328 OLD YOUGHAL ROAD, MAYFIELD, CORK. MAYFIELD COMMUNITY Phone: 450 8562 Fax: 450 8507 GARDEN Email: [email protected] Web: www.mayfieldcdp.ie Facebook: Mayfield CDP 28 1 St. Joseph's Youth Programme Foróige. For the second year in a row, Foróige's St. Joseph's Youth Programme Mayfield have successfully completed an Intercultural Exchange with Hong Kong, funded through Foróige and EIL. Ten young people from the communities of Mayfield, the Glen, Glanmire and Mahon, as well as their three leaders, travelled to Hong Kong in August to gain an intercultural learning experience. The young people got the opportunity to visit many exciting well known Hong Kong landmarks as well as carrying out pieces of Charity Work. Our young people facilitated a presentation to the Hong Kong Government showcasing what life is like for young people in Ireland as well as their role as foróige ambassadors in their community. -
Underwater Archaeological Assessment, River Lee Estuary, Monkstown, Co Cork
Underwater Archaeological Assessment, River Lee Estuary, Monkstown, Co Cork Inter-tidal Foreshore Survey, Owenduff River, Carrigaline, Co. Cork Cork Harbour Lower Drainage Scheme 0700030, 07R0135 20th October 2007 Project Director Dr. Niall Brady Project Archaeologist Rex Bangerter MA Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny [email protected] THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIVING COMPANY LTD. CONTENTS SUMMARY LIST OF FIGURES 2 LIST OF PLATES 2 1.0 INTRODUCTION 4 2.0 PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT 5 3.0 THE RECEIVING ENVIRONMENT 5 4.0 SURVEY METHODOLOGY 7 5.0 ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT 8 6.0 PROPOSED IMPACTS 10 7.0 RECOMMENDATIONS 11 8.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 13 APPENDIX 1: Abstract from Inventory of the East Cork Coast 14 detailing shipwrecks within Cork Harbour and surrounding coastline FIGURES AND PLATES 07D0030,07R0135 River Lee & Owenduff River, Co. Cork Underwater and Intertidal Archaeological Assessment SUMMARY The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd. was appointed by Aegis Archaeology Ltd, on behalf of Mott Macdonald Pettit (consulting engineers for Cork County Council), to undertake an underwater and intertidal archaeological survey of two pipeline impact corridors as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the proposed Cork Harbour Lower Drainage Scheme: the underwater assessment was undertaken along the works corridor identified for the proposed marine pipeline, crossing between Monkstown and Cobh (River Lee Estuary), and the inter-tidal survey was carried out across the route of the proposed foreshore pipeline at Carrigaline (north side of Owenduff River). Systematic visual inspection of the sub-tidal seabed and intertidal/ foreshore areas surrounding the proposed impacts did not reveal any material or features of archaeological significance. -
Heritage Bridges of County Cork
Heritage Bridges of County Cork Published by Heritage Unit of Cork County Council 2013 Phone: 021 4276891 - Email: [email protected]. ©Heritage Unit of Cork County Council 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the written permission of the publisher. Paperback - ISBN No. 978-0-9525869-6-8 Hardback - ISBN No. 978-0-9525869-7-5 Neither the authors nor the publishers (Heritage Unit of Cork County Council) are responsible for the consequences of the use of advice offered in this document by anyone to whom the document is supplied. Nor are they responsible for any errors, omissions or discrepancies in the information provided. Printed and bound in Ireland by Carraig Print inc. Litho Press Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork, Ireland. Tel: 021 4883458 List of Contributors: (those who provided specific information or photographs for use in this publication (in addition to Tobar Archaeology (Miriam Carroll and Annette Quinn), Blue Brick Heritage (Dr. Elena Turk) , Lisa Levis Carey, Síle O‟ Neill and Cork County Council personnel). Christy Roche Councillor Aindrias Moynihan Councillor Frank O‟ Flynn Diarmuid Kingston Donie O‟ Sullivan Doug Lucey Eilís Ní Bhríain Enda O‟Flaherty Jerry Larkin Jim Larner John Hurley Karen Moffat Lilian Sheehan Lynne Curran Nelligan Mary Crowley Max McCarthy Michael O‟ Connell Rose Power Sue Hill Ted and Nuala Nelligan Teddy O‟ Brien Thomas F. Ryan Photographs: As individually stated throughout this publication Includes Ordnance Survey Ireland data reproduced under OSi Licence number 2013/06/CCMA/CorkCountyCouncil Unauthorised reproduction infringes Ordnance Survey Ireland and Government of Ireland copyright. -
Mechanisms of Flooding in Cork City
National Hydrology Conference 2015 Olbert et al 03 - MECHANISMS OF FLOODING IN CORK CITY Agnieszka Indiana Olbert 1, Michael Hartnett 1, Joanne Comer 1, Stephen Nash 1 1National University of Ireland, Galway, School of Engineering and Informatics Abstract Flooding is one of the most frequent and devastating natural disasters. Many urban developments are located in estuaries where river flow and sea water merge. Cork City situated in the River Lee estuary is frequently the subject of extensive fluvial and coastal floods and is one such vulnerable location. It is chosen in this study to investigate the roles of the flood mechanisms on the extent of urban inundation. This paper provides a methodology for determination of mechanisms of urban flooding and their effects. Multiple drivers such as coastal and fluvial processes are considered to occur individually or jointly. In the assessment, interactions and dependencies between flood drivers are also included and accounted for in joint probability analysis. The patterns of flood wave propagation are investigated to establish roles of the individual flood drivers. The analysis of flooding is a multistep process involving both probabilistic and deterministic modelling where a probabilistic model provides inputs in terms of extreme sea water levels (coastal flooding) and river flows (fluvial flooding) as boundary conditions to a deterministic coastal model which simulates flood wave propagation and the extent of inundation. The MSN multi-scale nested ultra-high resolution numerical model is used to simulate 50- and 200-year extreme floods in the urban area of Cork City. Results show that the mechanism of flooding plays a crucial role in flood characteristics and inundation patterns. -
Navigation West Cork: Cruise the Wild Atlantic
West Cork is at once both very Irish and quite cosmopolitan. People here value the good things in life. It feels warm hearted and kind. West Cork: Cruise the Wild Atlantic Way Bantry House Sunset on Bantry Bay Ardgroom Standing Stones Things to do Served by direct access through Bantry Bay Harbour and observing Ireland’s “Tear Drop”, • Stroll through the stately homes and within easy reach of the Port of Cork, the West Cork region Fastnet Lighthouse, the last sight gardens of Bantry House of Ireland’s south west corner, provides truly remarkable of Ireland immigrants saw as they • Visit the Grecian Temple and Italian Gardens on experiences for your cruise guests. crossed to the new world. the sub-tropical island garden of Garnish Island • Venture across the arched bridge at Mizen Head, Ireland’s It’s no wonder they call West West Cork has a wonderful food most south westerly point, with the Atlantic crashing below Cork “A Place Apart”. Nature sets culture. Its farmers, award-winning • Lie on your back in an Irish Sky Garden, a living the pace in this beautiful corner artisan food producers and chafes art crater designed by famed artist James Turrell of Ireland - stretching from smart are leading Ireland’s culinary • Sample award winning, artisan foods from smoked south coast Kinsale, the gourmet revolution, your guests can enjoy Navigation salmon to chocolates, farmhouse cheese to brown pudding capital of Ireland, to two rugged great food right across West Cork. • Meet the makers at some of the areas westerly peninsula reaching into many art galleries and craft shops the wild Altantic, Sheep’s Head Meanwhile, the whole coast echoes with history - ancient General Description Bantry Bay is a large sheltered Bay that stretches 15 nautical miles from the sea entrance (a winner of Europe’s Destination sites, ruined castles, coastal forts and copper mines. -
Reverend Richard Townsend [612] St Cohnan's, Cloyne
Reverend Richard Townsend [612] Killenemer 1799 - 1801 Lackeen 1801 - 1806 Magourney 1801 - 1806 Ballyvourney 1799 - 1801 Cloyne St Cohnan’s, Cloyne Extract from Brady’s Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne and Ross Volume II 1863 Extracts from Samuel Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary 1837 BALLYVOURNEY, a parish, in the barony of WEST MUSKERRY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 8 miles (W. by N.) from Macroom; containing 3681 inhabitants. St. Abban, who lived to a very advanced age and died in 650, founded a nunnery at this place, which he gave to St. Gobnata, who was descended from O'Connor the Great, Monarch of Ireland. Smith, in his history of Cork, notices the church of this establishment, but it has since fallen into decay. The parish, of which the name signifies "the Town of the Beloved," is chiefly the property of Sir Nicholas C. Colthurst, Bart.; it is situated on the River Sullane, and on the road from Cork to Killarney, and comprises 26,525 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £6073. 15. per annum. The surface is very uneven, in some parts rising into mountains of considerable elevation, the highest of which is Mullaghanish: about one- half is arable and pasture land, with 70 acres of woodland. Much of the land has been brought into a state of cultivation by means of a new line of road from Macroom, which passes through the vale of the Sullane, and is now a considerable thoroughfare; and great facilities of improvement have been afforded by other new lines of road which have been made through the parish; but there are still about 16,000 acres of rough pasture and moorland, which might be drained and brought into a state of profitable cultivation. -
Ballyvourney and Ballymakeera Frs Interim Works
BALLYVOURNEY AND BALLYMAKEERA FRS INTERIM WORKS Ecological Impact Assessment CP19008RP001 Ballyvourney and Ballymakeera FRS Interim Works - Ecological Impact Assessment F02 3rd December 2019 rpsgroup.com ECOLOGICAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT Document status Review Version Purpose of document Authored by Reviewed by Approved by date Green Leaf Ecology Ecological Impact Michelle Bennett Michelle F02 and Michael 03/12/19 Assessment Bennett Houston, RPS Mark Magee Approval for issue Michelle Bennett 3 December 2019 © Copyright RPS Group Limited. All rights reserved. The report has been prepared for the exclusive use of our client and unless otherwise agreed in writing by RPS Group Limited no other party may use, make use of or rely on the contents of this report. The report has been compiled using the resources agreed with the client and in accordance with the scope of work agreed with the client. No liability is accepted by RPS Group Limited for any use of this report, other than the purpose for which it was prepared. RPS Group Limited accepts no responsibility for any documents or information supplied to RPS Group Limited by others and no legal liability arising from the use by others of opinions or data contained in this report. It is expressly stated that no independent verification of any documents or information supplied by others has been made. RPS Group Limited has used reasonable skill, care and diligence in compiling this report and no warranty is provided as to the report’s accuracy. No part of this report may be copied or reproduced, by any means, without the written permission of RPS Group Limited. -
Irish Landscape Names
Irish Landscape Names Preface to 2010 edition Stradbally on its own denotes a parish and village); there is usually no equivalent word in the Irish form, such as sliabh or cnoc; and the Ordnance The following document is extracted from the database used to prepare the list Survey forms have not gained currency locally or amongst hill-walkers. The of peaks included on the „Summits‟ section and other sections at second group of exceptions concerns hills for which there was substantial www.mountainviews.ie The document comprises the name data and key evidence from alternative authoritative sources for a name other than the one geographical data for each peak listed on the website as of May 2010, with shown on OS maps, e.g. Croaghonagh / Cruach Eoghanach in Co. Donegal, some minor changes and omissions. The geographical data on the website is marked on the Discovery map as Barnesmore, or Slievetrue in Co. Antrim, more comprehensive. marked on the Discoverer map as Carn Hill. In some of these cases, the evidence for overriding the map forms comes from other Ordnance Survey The data was collated over a number of years by a team of volunteer sources, such as the Ordnance Survey Memoirs. It should be emphasised that contributors to the website. The list in use started with the 2000ft list of Rev. these exceptions represent only a very small percentage of the names listed Vandeleur (1950s), the 600m list based on this by Joss Lynam (1970s) and the and that the forms used by the Placenames Branch and/or OSI/OSNI are 400 and 500m lists of Michael Dewey and Myrddyn Phillips. -
Kilometres Nutricia Site
Date 01/12/06 GF/ME R:\Map Production\2006\524\01\ Mapping Reproduced Under Licence from the Ordnance Survey Ireland Workspace\LA-NEIS_Figure 5.1_Regional Bedrock Map_Rev X Licence No. EN 0001206 © Government of Ireland ’ Co. Cork !!! Key Map Macroom !! For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. Map Legend Flaser-bedded sandstone & minor mudstone Cross-bedded sandstone & minor mudstone Sandstone with mudstone & siltstone Purple mudstone and siltstone Green-grey sandstone & purple siltstone Purple mudstone and sandstone Massive unbedded lime-mudstone Sandstone and siltstone Purple siltstone & fine sandstone Purple & green sandstone & siltstone 012 Fault kilometres Nutricia Site Regional Bedrock Map Fehily Timoney & Company Figure 5.1 EPA Export 25-07-2013:21:40:08 The Gunpoint formation is defined by the incoming of metre scale sandstone bodies and the first thick (more than 1 m) intraformational breccias. Lithologically the Gun Point Formation consists of purple and green medium to coarse-grained and cross- stratified sandstones with interbedded sequences of thin purple siltstones and fine- grained parallel and cross-laminated sandstones (GSI 1997). The Castlehaven Formation conformably overlies the Gun Point Formation in the project area. The formation outcrops only on the south limb of the Macroom Syncline where it is less than 160 m in thickness (Williams et al 1989). The formation is characterised by the purple mudstones and siltstones with interbedded fine grained sandstones. 5.4. Hydrologeology According to the GSI aquifer classification system, the aquifer underlying the Nutricia site and within the surrounding area is classified as locally important (L1) (which is generally moderately productive in local zones) and a Poor aquifer (P1) (which is generally unproductive except in local zones). -
5/1 Chapter 5 the SOUTH-WEST Counties East, South and North-West CORK -- KERRY -- West LIMERICK East CORK Cobh -- Spike Island T
Chapter 5 THE SOUTH-WEST counties East, south and north-west CORK -- KERRY -- west LIMERICK East CORK Cobh -- Spike Island Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century, visitors to Ireland from Britain and the Continent were appalled at the poverty of its people, and wondered at this because so much of the land was fertile. There were many reasons for the destitution, so many that Frank O'Connor neatly sidesteps them -- but he is in little doubt of the main reason: ignorance of the true condition of Ireland, on the part of its distant government, because of the difficulties involved in visiting it [1] : Books about a country usually begin with its history. Books about Ireland which do this tend to remain unread. The misunderstandings are too many... Ultimately, perhaps, all the misunderstandings can be traced to sixty miles of salt water which stretches between Britain and Ireland. O'Connor was writing in the 1940s. Mr & Mrs Hall begin their vast, chatty, obsequious (to the English reader) but well-intentioned three-volume Ireland , a hundred years earlier (1841), with a long description of the purgatory of a pre-steam crossing to Cork. They agree with O'Connor [2] : It was not alone the miserable paucity of accommodation and utter indifference to the comfort of the passengers, that made the voyage an intolerable evil. Though it usually occupied but three or four days, frequently as many weeks were expended in making it. It was once our lot to pass a month between the ports of Bristol and Cork; putting back, every now and then, to the wretched village of Pill, and not daring to leave it even for an hour, lest the wind should change and the packet weigh anchor.. -
VOLUME 2 Specific Objectives: 2 Heritage and Amenity Specific Objectives: Heritage and Amenity
CORK County Development Plan 2003 VOLUME 2 Specific Objectives: 2 Heritage and Amenity Specific Objectives: Heritage and Amenity Contents of Volume 2 CHAPTER 1: RECORD OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES 1 CHAPTER 2: ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION AREAS 77 Volume 1: CHAPTER 3: NATURE CONSERVATION AREAS 81 Overall Strategy & Main Policy Material 3.1 Proposed Natural Heritage Areas 82 Sets out the general objectives of 3.2 Candidate Special Areas of Conservation 90 the Development Plan under a range of headings together with 3.3 Special Protection Areas 92 the planning principles that underpin them. 3.4 Areas of Geological Interest 93 Volume 2: CHAPTER 4: SCENIC ROUTES 99 Specific Objectives: Heritage and Amenity Sets out, in detail, a range of specific heritage and amenity objectives of the Development Plan, with particular attention to the Record of Protected Structures. Volume 3: Specific Zoning Objectives: Main Settlements Sets out the specific zoning objectives for 31 main settlements in County Cork. The overall zoning approach as well as general context material is given for each settlement. Volume 4: Maps The map volume contains six main sets of maps: Heritage & Scenic Amenity; Metropolitan Cork Green Belt; Rural Housing Control Zone; Landscape Character Areas and Types Map; Architectural Conservation Areas and Zoning Maps for the 31 Main Settlements. Issue 1: February 2003 CORK County Development Plan iii Chapter 1 Record of Protected Structures he overall planning policy for the protection of Tstructures is set out in Chapter 7 (Environment & Heritage) of Volume 1. For the Record of Protected Structures (RPS), the key objectives are stated as follows: ENV 5-1(a): It is an objective to seek the 1.1 Record of Protected protection of all structures within the county Structures which are of special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest. -
List of Irish Mountain Passes
List of Irish Mountain Passes The following document is a list of mountain passes and similar features extracted from the gazetteer, Irish Landscape Names. Please consult the full document (also available at Mountain Views) for the abbreviations of sources, symbols and conventions adopted. The list was compiled during the month of June 2020 and comprises more than eighty Irish passes and cols, including both vehicular passes and pedestrian saddles. There were thousands of features that could have been included, but since I intended this as part of a gazetteer of place-names in the Irish mountain landscape, I had to be selective and decided to focus on those which have names and are of importance to walkers, either as a starting point for a route or as a way of accessing summits. Some heights are approximate due to the lack of a spot height on maps. Certain features have not been categorised as passes, such as Barnesmore Gap, Doo Lough Pass and Ballaghaneary because they did not fulfil geographical criteria for various reasons which are explained under the entry for the individual feature. They have, however, been included in the list as important features in the mountain landscape. Paul Tempan, July 2020 Anglicised Name Irish Name Irish Name, Source and Notes on Feature and Place-Name Range / County Grid Ref. Heig OSI Meaning Region ht Disco very Map Sheet Ballaghbeama Bealach Béime Ir. Bealach Béime Ballaghbeama is one of Ireland’s wildest passes. It is Dunkerron Kerry V754 781 260 78 (pass, motor) [logainm.ie], ‘pass of the extremely steep on both sides, with barely any level Mountains ground to park a car at the summit.