Ballingarraun

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingarraun, from 1,958 m² to 1,744,980 m² (174.5 ha, 431.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ballingarraun 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 Ballingarraun 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: Mount Brandon SAC 000375
• Special Protection Area: Dingle Peninsula SPA 004153
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount Brandon 000375

Recorded monuments

• KE043-186 Hut site
  Description

  On steep rock-strewn S slopes of Knockmoylemore. A circular corbelled drystone hut. D: 3.56m. H: 1.3m. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1019. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013

• KE043-187 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone situated on fairly level pastureland at the base of Knockmoylemore, overlooking to S the broad lowlying tract of land that surrounds Trabeg. It is 1.96m high, 1.53m wide and varies in thickness from .11m at the E side to a maximum of .66m towards the centre; ESE-WNW. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 75. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE043-199 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 33.7m N-S, 37.2m E-W. A univallate rath situated on the S slopes of Knockmoylemore, overlooking the lower valley of the Garfinny river and its tributaries. The site is enclosed by an earthen bank and fosse and contains the remains of a clochaun and other unclassified features. Where best preserved the bank is 1.7m high. Its W section forms part of the townland boundary, and the N and E sections are surmounted by later drystone walling. The entrance consists of a 1m wide gap through this later walling at E. The fosse is up to 1m deep and 4.4m wide, but it is only faintly discernible around the S half of the site. A stony ledge bisects the interior WSW-ENE, the N sector being raised c. 0.5m above the remainder. In the latter area, a triangular space adjoining the bank is defined by 2 rows of low upright stones, c. 0.5m high; its function is not known. A circular clochaun KE043-199001-, 4.7m in diameter internally, is built against the bank at WSW. The drystone-built wall is c. 1m thick and up to c. 1m in height but much of it is now defaced. The ill-defined entrance gap faces SE. There is a partly stone-lined depression in the top of the ringfort bank directly W of the hut. It measures 2.5m x 1.5m x 1m deep. Its function is not known but a 2nd hollow a little to S may have been caused by animal burrowing. It seems clear that this site has been modified and some of the internal features may be secondary. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 297. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

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.

No address of the register names Ballingarraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballingarraun · Baile an Gharráin

Area

2,368,455 m² (236.85 ha, 585.26 acres)

Civil parish

Cloghane, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Kinard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinard electoral division: 330 people in 135 households; 89% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahow, Ballyrishteen, Clogharee, Coumanare, Lisdargan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballingarraun 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.