Ballard Lower

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard Lower, from 26 m² to 607,070 m² (60.71 ha, 150.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballard Lower 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballard Lower 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballard Lower.

Recorded monuments

• KE088-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular enclosure is marked at this location on the first edition of the OS map, on a low rocky rise surrounded by poorly drained boggy pasture. No visible trace of the enclosure survives, but the lintelled entrance to a souterrain (KE088-026001-) is located on the N side of the rise. This measures 1.3m x .3m, and gives access to a 2.3m long passage which slopes sharply downwards, reaching a maximum depth of 1.2m. The sides of the drystone-built passage corbel slightly and are well-constructed of regular courses of flat slabs. Larger slabs are used in the lower courses. The passage averages 1m wide and is roofed with slabs. A small lintelled creep way in its end-wall, .3m high, appears to lead into a second passage. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 627. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE088-026001 Souterrain
  Description

  No visible trace of the enclosure survives, but the lintelled entrance to a souterrain (KE088-026001-) is located on the N side of the rise. This measures 1.3m x .3m, and gives access to a 2.3m long passage which slopes sharply downwards, reaching a maximum depth of 1.2m. The sides of the drystone-built passage corbel slightly and are well-constructed of regular courses of flat slabs. Larger slabs are used in the lower courses. The passage averages 1m wide and is roofed with slabs. A small lintelled creep way in its end-wall, .3m high, appears to lead into a second passage. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 627. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballard Lower.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballard Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballard Lower · An Baile Ard Íochtarach

Area

2,843,706 m² (284.37 ha, 702.7 acres)

Civil parish

Prior, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Teeranearagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Teeranearagh electoral division: 297 people in 128 households; 94% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghatubrid, Ballard Upper, Emlaghlea, Emlaghmore East, Fermoyle, Kineigh, Muingydowda, Tullig

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballard Lower 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.