Ballaghadigue

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghadigue, from 2,386 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 336,493 m² (33.65 ha, 83.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ballaghadigue 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.

• 14 Jul 2025Conditional

  ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT WITH A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, ALSO TO UP-GRADE EXISTING ROAD AND EXTEND SAME TO PROPOSED SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATE SITE WORKS TO THEIR SITE

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 25189

• 10 Mar 2025Refused

  TO ERECT A BUNGALOW WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT WITH A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2551

• 18 Nov 2022Conditional

  RETAIN A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND COVERED BARBEQUE AREA

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221201

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 Ballaghadigue.

Recorded monuments

• KE011-007 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure, this site does not appear on the later edition of 1939. No visible trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1053. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/2000).

• KE011-008 Fulacht fia
  Description

  A small stream lies SW of this oval-shaped mound. It measures 14.2m WNE-ESE, 12m NE-SW, and .65m high. In the S sector of the mound is a semicircular depression measuring .65m in maximum length and 3.2m in maximum width. A small amount of burnt stones is visible. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 54. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE011-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 44m Situated in poorly drained land about 11m SW of a small stream, this sub-circular univallate rath is extremely overgrown and is enclosed by a low, squat earthen bank and exterior fosse. The bank is c2.6m wide, .6m above the fosse and .15m-.35m high above the interior. The external fosse is 2.5m wide and c .4m below the height of the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 416. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/2000).

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballaghadigue, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_276 (ZIP).

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 Ballaghadigue with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballaghadigue · Bealach an Daibhigh

Area

936,125 m² (93.61 ha, 231.32 acres)

Civil parish

Listowel, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Listowel Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,654 people lived in 635 households in the Listowel Rural electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunagarha, Cloonmackon, Coolatoosane, Kylebwee, Skehanierin (Egan), Skehanierin (Stokes)

Placenames

Ballaghadigue 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.