# Ballard Lower, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Prior, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Baile Ard Íochtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,843,706 m² (284.37 ha, 702.7 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,137 m² (2.11 ha, 5.22 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Prior, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/prior.md
- Barony: Iveragh
- Electoral division: Teeranearagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22414
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70120
- Centre: latitude 51.872965, longitude -10.225262 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard Lower, from 26 m² to 607,070 m² (60.71 ha, 150.01 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1215768: 607,070 m² (60.71 ha, 150.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215768.md
- Parcel 2751075: 486,938 m² (48.69 ha, 120.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2751075.md
- Parcel 1208300: 467,734 m² (46.77 ha, 115.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208300.md
- Parcel 1226528: 446,327 m² (44.63 ha, 110.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1226528.md
- Parcel 1238999: 158,107 m² (15.81 ha, 39.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1238999.md
- Parcel 1237537: 137,103 m² (13.71 ha, 33.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237537.md
- Parcel 1205316: 111,561 m² (11.16 ha, 27.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1205316.md
- Parcel 1235074: 72,135 m² (7.21 ha, 17.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235074.md
- Parcel 1208850: 69,942 m² (6.99 ha, 17.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208850.md
- Parcel 1177638: 62,258 m² (6.23 ha, 15.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1177638.md
- Parcel 1245341: 61,244 m² (6.12 ha, 15.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245341.md
- Parcel 1230045: 38,729 m² (3.87 ha, 9.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1230045.md
- Parcel 1228410: 36,330 m² (3.63 ha, 8.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1228410.md
- Parcel 1223882: 21,137 m² (2.11 ha, 5.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223882.md
- Parcel 1217434: 12,730 m² (1.27 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1217434.md
- Parcel 1212777: 12,347 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1212777.md
- Parcel 1177720: 5,326 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1177720.md
- Parcel 4871650: 4,458 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4871650.md
- Parcel 1246316: 4,171 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246316.md
- Parcel 1177637: 4,096 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1177637.md
- Parcel 1203514: 2,944 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1203514.md
- Parcel 1139361: 2,202 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1139361.md
- Parcel 1181871: 2,150 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1181871.md
- Parcel 1206389: 1,421 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1206389.md
- Parcel 1242285: 1,258 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1242285.md
- Parcel 1165171: 961 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1165171.md
- Parcel 1138847: 26 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138847.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Ballard Lower in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE088-026: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE088-026----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE088-026001-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballard-lower.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballard-lower.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballard-lower.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Aghatubrid: https://everytownland.com/kerry/aghatubrid.md
- Ballard Upper: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballard-upper.md
- Emlaghlea: https://everytownland.com/kerry/emlaghlea.md
- Emlaghmore East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/emlaghmore-east.md
- Fermoyle: https://everytownland.com/kerry/fermoyle-71308.md
- Kineigh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kineigh.md
- Muingydowda: https://everytownland.com/kerry/muingydowda.md
- Tullig: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tullig-72674.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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