# Ballard Upper, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Prior, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Baile Ard Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,177,846 m² (117.78 ha, 291.05 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 78,225 m² (7.82 ha, 19.33 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application 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): 297 people lived in 128 households in the Teeranearagh electoral division. 94% of households owned 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/22415 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70121 - Centre: latitude 51.87938, longitude -10.236971 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard Upper, from 350 m² to 237,617 m² (23.76 ha, 58.72 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1230044: 237,617 m² (23.76 ha, 58.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1230044.md - Parcel 1162264: 173,083 m² (17.31 ha, 42.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1162264.md - Parcel 1208848: 143,380 m² (14.34 ha, 35.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208848.md - Parcel 1223541: 103,214 m² (10.32 ha, 25.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223541.md - Parcel 1186469: 100,498 m² (10.05 ha, 24.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1186469.md - Parcel 1181868: 98,542 m² (9.85 ha, 24.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1181868.md - Parcel 1190335: 97,761 m² (9.78 ha, 24.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1190335.md - Parcel 1184767: 86,552 m² (8.66 ha, 21.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184767.md - Parcel 1148303: 78,225 m² (7.82 ha, 19.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1148303.md - Parcel 1143725: 32,298 m² (3.23 ha, 7.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1143725.md - Parcel 1239618: 19,829 m² (1.98 ha, 4.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1239618.md - Parcel 1220336: 2,437 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1220336.md - Parcel 1193969: 1,995 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193969.md - Parcel 1167058: 1,425 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1167058.md - Parcel 3073902: 892 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3073902.md - Parcel 1166718: 572 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1166718.md - Parcel 1231563: 350 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1231563.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballard Upper 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) 1 application, newest first. - 9 Oct 2018, Kerry County Council 18968: Conditional. Retention. RETAIN AN EXISTING 18 METRE HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE, ANTENNAS, EQUIPMENT CONTAINER AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND AND ACCESS TRACK . THE DEVELOPMENT FORMS PART OF VODAFONE IRELAND LTDS EXISTING GSM AND 3G BROADBAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/18968/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballard Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballard Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballard Upper, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballard Upper. - 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-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballard-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballard-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballard Upper 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 Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballard-lower.md - Derreen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derreen-71000.md - Fermoyle: https://everytownland.com/kerry/fermoyle-71308.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballard-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/ballard-upper