Kieran will lead a walking tour of Ballinlough on Sunday 18 May (2pm, free, starting from Beaumont National Schools) will highlight this heritage along with tales of landlords, big houses, rural life in nineteenth century Ballinlough and the rise of its twentieth century settlement history.  Ballinlough has a rich variety of heritage sites. With 360 acres, it is the second largest of the seven townlands forming the Mahon Peninsula. The church, built originally as a chapel of ease for Blackrock parish, provided an important landmark for the various speculative housing estates of the mid twentieth century to be built around it. However, Ballinlough has a deeper history dating back to Bronze Age Ireland. In fact it is probably the only urban area in the country to still have a standing stone still standing in it for over 5,000 years.