Ballincrossig

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballincrossig, from 263 m² to 368,439 m² (36.84 ha, 91.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Ballincrossig 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.

• 21 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a slatted cubicle house over existing slatted tank. Retention permission, to retain the existing slatted tank and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560729

• 12 Aug 2025N/a

  Invalid: Permission to construct a slatted cubicle house over existing slatted tank, to retain the existing slatted tank and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560699

• 12 Feb 2024Conditional

  (A) RETAIN 2 NO. EXTENSIONS/PROJECTIONS TO GROUND FLOOR, INCLUDING ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE WALL AND GATE TO EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2457

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 Ballincrossig.

Recorded monuments

• KE015-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 26m N-S, 27m E-W This univallate ringfort is situated in a large pastoral field which is sloping S. It consists of a circular area enclosed by an earth and stone bank. The enclosing bank is on average 6m wide at the base and rises to 1.4m externally and .8m-1.2m internally. Two main gaps are to be noticed: to the NW measuring c 4m wide and to the E, which is c 3m wide. The opening to the E displays a lot of stones and may be the original stone-lined entrance. The interior is at a slightly higher level than the surrounding land, and in its W sector are two elongated mounds displaying a lot of stones. The N mound measures 6.4m x 2.8m externally, while the one c 1.6m to the S measures 6m x 4m; they are possibly the remains of a house site (KE015-018001-). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 519. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE015-018001 Hut site
  Description

  Univallate ringfort KE015-018---- is situated in a large pastoral field which is sloping S. It consists of a circular area enclosed by an earth and stone bank. The interior is at a slightly higher level than the surrounding land, and in its W sector are two elongated mounds displaying a lot of stones. The N mound measures 6.4m x 2.8m externally, while the one c 1.6m to the S measures 6m x 4m; they are possibly the remains of a house site (KE015-018001-). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 519. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE015-018002 Hut site
  Description

  Univallate ringfort KE015-018---- is situated in a large pastoral field which is sloping S. It consists of a circular area enclosed by an earth and stone bank. The interior is at a slightly higher level than the surrounding land, and in its W sector are two elongated mounds displaying a lot of stones. The N mound measures 6.4m x 2.8m externally, while the one c 1.6m to the S measures 6m x 4m; they are possibly the remains of a house site (KE015-018001-). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 519. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE015-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This circular enclosure lies SSE of KE015-135----. It does not appear on the 1841-42 OS map, but is marked on the later edition of 1916. A slight trace of this site can be seen on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1974), but no surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 521. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE015-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1916 OS maps and lies NE of KE015-022----. A slight trace of a crop mark can be picked up on the Geological Survey of Ireland aerial photographs (1974), but no surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 522. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE015-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated one field NE of KE015-023, in the corner of a field, this site has a small stream running along the N and E exterior sides. This univallate rath is completely overgrown and inaccessible. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 523. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE015-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This site lies about 30m SE of KE015-024---- in the same field. It appears on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure which has been slightly cut to the N through E to SE by a fieldbank. On the 1916 map only a slight semi-circular enclosure is marked and, though much levelled, it is still distinguishable today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 524. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballincrossig.

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

Name

Ballincrossig · Baile an Chrosaigh

Area

1,210,030 m² (121 ha, 299 acres)

Civil parish

Rattoo, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Causeway, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Causeway electoral division: 628 people in 259 households; 74% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooneen, Dromkeen East, Drommartin, Dromroe, Tullaghna

Placenames

Ballincrossig 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.