Ballincraheen

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballincraheen, from 857 m² to 658,856 m² (65.89 ha, 162.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Ballincraheen 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 Ballincraheen 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• KE016-063 Enclosure
  Description

  This enclosure is situated on low-lying land which is surrounded by bogland. It is roughly rectangular and measures 72m NW-SE and 66m NE-SW. It consists of an enclosing earthen bank; WNE the external height of the bank measures 1m, its width at the base 5m, and the internal height of the bank measures .35m. To the NE the external height of the bank measures 1.75m, its width at the base measures 6.5m and the internal height of the bank .2m. Extending from the N corner of the enclosure is a low, wide semi-circular earthen bank, which curves back into the enclosure towards its NW corner. The width of the bank at its base measures 19m, the external height has a very gradual slope and measures about 1.2m, and the internal height measures .8m. The incurved front of the bank is a distance of 12m from the NW bank of the enclosure. According to the landowner (Mr Stack) there was originally a souterrain (KE016-063001-) in the SW sector of the interior, but no surface trace of this could be found. The interior gently slopes down to the enclosing bank to the S, E and W and the interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 974. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE016-063001 Souterrain
  Description

  According to Toal (1995, 265, no. 974), the landowner stated that there was 'originally a souterrain in the SW sector of the interior' (of enclosure KE016-063----). No visible surface trace of this souterrain was noted on day of survey by the North Kerry Archaeological Survey. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 19 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Ballincraheen.

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

Name

Ballincraheen · Baile an Chraithín

Area

869,813 m² (86.98 ha, 214.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltomy, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Kilfeighny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilfeighny electoral division: 993 people in 372 households; 87% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhennessy, Ballynageragh, Ballyreehan East, Clondouglas, Irrabeg, Kilfeighny North

Placenames

Ballincraheen 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.