Ballinbranhig

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinbranhig, from 908 m² to 246,549 m² (24.65 ha, 60.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballinbranhig 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.

• 22 Jan 2025Conditional

  1) TO CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS TO REAR AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCT A FRONT PORCH AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTINGT DWELLING, (2) TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND TO INSTALL NEW MECHANICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS,(3) TO DEMOLISH PART OF EXISTING HAYBARN, AND (4) TO WIDEN THE EXISTING ENTRANCE AT THE JUNCTION WITH THE PUBLIC ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS , ALL THE ABOVE AT BALLINBRANHIG BALLYDUFF CO.KERY.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560025

• 16 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO AN EASY FEED SLATTED SHED TO HOUSE CATTLE COMPLETE WITH SLATTED SLURRY TANK, BARRIER, PENNING, FEED PASSAGE, CATTLE CRUSH AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21133

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 Ballinbranhig.

Recorded monuments

• KE009-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 41m This univallate rath is cut on its N to NE side by a bohareen. Today it appears as a sub-rectangular area with curved corners, enclosed by a low earth and stone bank. The enclosing bank is 1.3m high externally and .45m above the interior. The interior, which is at a slightly lower level than the surrounding land, contains the remains of a souterrain. On the 1841-42 OS map, 'cave' (KE009-061001-) is marked in the interior. Towards the W sector, three mounds, measuring 4.2m x 3.1m, 5.9m x 3m and 5.6m x 3.3m, are all that is evident today. The possible entrance lies to the W and is 2.5m in width. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 339. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE009-061001 Souterrain
  Description

  Univallate rath KE009-061---- is cut on its N to NE side by a bohareen. Today it appears as a sub-rectangular area with curved corners, enclosed by a low earth and stone bank. The interior, which is at a slightly lower level than the surrounding land, contains the remains of a souterrain. On the 1841-42 OS map, 'cave' (KE009-061001-) is marked in the interior. Towards the W sector, three mounds, measuring 4.2m x 3.1m, 5.9m x 3m and 5.6m x 3.3m, are all that is evident today. The possible entrance lies to the W and is 2.5m in width. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 339. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE009-085 Fulacht fia
  Description

  An area of charcoal and burnt stones was unearthed during the ploughing of this field. Another spread lies immediately to the N in the same field. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 47. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE009-086 Fulacht fia
  Description

  The site has been recently ploughed, and a spread of charcoal and burnt stones marks the site of this possible fulacht fiadh. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 48. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

Architectural heritage

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Local Authority house with dormer attic, built c. 1910, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to right. Pitched and half-hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack, projecting eaves and verges, and having cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Painted rendered walls. Timber two-over-two pane sliding sash windows with painted stone sills. Projecting gabled porch with timber boarded door with overlight. Rubble boundary wall and piers with wrought-iron gate.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballinbranhig · Baile an Bhreatnaigh

Area

1,220,819 m² (122.08 ha, 301.67 acres)

Civil parish

Rattoo, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Drommartin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drommartin electoral division: 539 people in 184 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Addergown, Corbally, Glanerdalliv, Knockavaghig, Knockercreeveen, Lisnagoneeny, Rahealy

Placenames

Ballinbranhig 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.