# Ballinbranhig, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rattoo, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Baile an Bhreatnaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,220,819 m² (122.08 ha, 301.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,375 m² (1.94 ha, 4.79 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rattoo, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/rattoo.md - Barony: Clanmaurice - Electoral division: Drommartin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23908 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70127 - Centre: latitude 52.439116, longitude -9.689175 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinbranhig, from 908 m² to 246,549 m² (24.65 ha, 60.92 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1154934: 246,549 m² (24.65 ha, 60.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1154934.md - Parcel 5529578: 156,144 m² (15.61 ha, 38.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5529578.md - Parcel 1142478: 103,200 m² (10.32 ha, 25.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1142478.md - Parcel 1151596: 67,853 m² (6.79 ha, 16.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151596.md - Parcel 1225110: 67,221 m² (6.72 ha, 16.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225110.md - Parcel 1220624: 63,782 m² (6.38 ha, 15.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1220624.md - Parcel 1143094: 57,587 m² (5.76 ha, 14.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1143094.md - Parcel 1139076: 56,652 m² (5.67 ha, 14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1139076.md - Parcel 1182308: 56,279 m² (5.63 ha, 13.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1182308.md - Parcel 1211600: 55,379 m² (5.54 ha, 13.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1211600.md - Parcel 1234663: 41,813 m² (4.18 ha, 10.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1234663.md - Parcel 1161609: 37,411 m² (3.74 ha, 9.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1161609.md - Parcel 1237164: 30,805 m² (3.08 ha, 7.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237164.md - Parcel 1180779: 30,554 m² (3.06 ha, 7.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1180779.md - Parcel 1236222: 23,730 m² (2.37 ha, 5.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1236222.md - Parcel 1238678: 19,375 m² (1.94 ha, 4.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1238678.md - Parcel 1217843: 18,819 m² (1.88 ha, 4.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1217843.md - Parcel 1157277: 17,961 m² (1.8 ha, 4.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157277.md - Parcel 1161702: 14,135 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1161702.md - Parcel 1233015: 11,748 m² (1.17 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233015.md - Parcel 1203451: 9,558 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1203451.md - Parcel 1193576: 8,728 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193576.md - Parcel 1223924: 4,834 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223924.md - Parcel 1145364: 4,818 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1145364.md - Parcel 4438986: 4,069 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4438986.md - Parcel 1247667: 3,317 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1247667.md - Parcel 2978487: 2,270 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2978487.md - Parcel 1157678: 1,848 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157678.md - Parcel 1177565: 1,622 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1177565.md - Parcel 1209600: 973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1209600.md - Parcel 1201942: 908 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1201942.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 22 Jan 2025, Kerry County Council 2560025: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560025/0 - 16 Feb 2021, Kerry County Council 21133: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/21133/0 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 Ballinbranhig. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE009-061: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE009-061----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE009-061001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE009-085----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE009-086----. 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 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) - House, 1900–1920, Regional interest, registry number 21300910, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE®no=21300910. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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 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, 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/ballinbranhig.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballinbranhig.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballinbranhig.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballinbranhig 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) - Addergown: https://everytownland.com/kerry/addergown.md - Corbally: https://everytownland.com/kerry/corbally-70873.md - Glanerdalliv: https://everytownland.com/kerry/glanerdalliv.md - Knockavaghig: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockavaghig.md - Knockercreeveen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockercreeveen.md - Lisnagoneeny: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lisnagoneeny.md - Rahealy: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rahealy.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/ballinbranhig - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/ballinbranhig