Ballingowan

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingowan, from 4 m² to 140,725 m² (14.07 ha, 34.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• C1.1Commercial, Retail (Commercial, retail)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Industrial, Enterprise, Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Mar 2026Conditional

  Construct an easy feed cattle shed for over wintering cattle complete with easy feed barriers, automatic scrapers and an underground slurry effluent storage tank, including all associated ancillary concrete and site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660261

• 2 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) Retain 12 no. single storey, 2 person, prefabricated accommodation cabin, in revised location and all associated sites works carried out to facilitate the foregoing development (further to Planning Reg; Ref 24/352), (2) Planning Permission to erect a Bat Roost (as per condition No. 6 of Planning Reg; Ref 24/352).

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 25287

• 26 Nov 2025N/a

  Application by Gerard O'Connor to Kerry County Council for planning permission to construct a bridge crossing over the Ballybeggan River, together with all associated site works, on his landholding at Rathass, Tralee, Co. Kerry. .

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561099

• 10 Sept 2025Refused

  Planning permission to construct a single storey dwelling house and to install an irl 8 tricel novo wastewater treatment pumped unit and sandcell tertiary system and all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560800

• 30 Aug 2024Conditional

  (1) ERECT 12 NO. SINGLE STOREY, 2 PERSON , PREFABRICATED ACCOMMODATION CABINS (2) CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 24352

• 22 Aug 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCT A 3 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE HOTEL CONSISTING OF 36 NO. BEDROOMS, CIRCULATION AND STORAGE SPACES, (2) REMOVAL OF 3 NO. EXISTING BEDROOMS TO ALLOW FOR ACCESS TO THE PROPOSED BEDROOM EXTENSION AND FOR ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SPACES, (3) CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 24344

• 1 Dec 2023Conditional

  FULL PLANNING PERMISSION TO (A) CLOSE UP EXISTING ENTRANCE CURRENTLY SERVING KERRY MOTOR WORKS SHOWROOM AND DISPLAY YARD, (B) FORM AND CONSTRUCT A NEW ENTRANCE TO SERVICE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT LEADING ONTO MAIN ROAD (R875), (C) FORM AND CONSTRUCT A NEW ENTRANCE WITHIN PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WHICH WILL SERVE AS A NEW ENTRANCE TO KERRY MOTOR WORKS, (D) CONTRUCT 15 NO. INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSES, CONSISTING OF 2 NO. TERRACED BLOCKS OF 3 UNITS AND 9 N0. DETACHED UNITS, (E) CONSTRUCT A NEW SERVICE ROAD WITHIN PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT TO SERVICE ALL UNITS, (F) CONSTRUCT A NEW MV ESB SUB STATION WITHIN PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT (G) CONSTRUCT A NEW SIGNAGE PYLON WHICH WILL BE USED FOR ADVERTISING KERRY MOTOR WORKS DEALERSHIP AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE, (H) CONSTRUCT A NEW SIGNAGE PYLON WHICH WILL BE USED FOR ADVERTISING BUSINESSES OCCUPYING THE PROPOSED UNITS AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE, (I) CONSTRUCT A NEW KERRY MOTOR WORKS BUSINESS SIGNAGE PYLON AT NEW INNER ENTRANCE (J) DECOMMISION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ON SITE, (K) CONSTRUCT A NEW CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER VIA ON SITE PUMPING STATION AND (L) CONSTRUCTION OF ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, INCLUDING SUDS INFRASTRUCTURE; AND RETENTION PERMISSION TO (1) RETAIN EXISTING CAR WASH UNIT AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE, (2) RETAIN AND COMPLETE EXISTING HARDSTAND AREA AND SECURITY FENCING AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360380

• 18 Jul 2023Conditional

  (A1) RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ENGINEERING WORKSHOP WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (A2) RETAIN CANOPY AS CONSTRUCTED BETWEEN TWO EXISTING BUILDINGS ON SITE (B) PLANNING PEMISSION TO CONSTRUCT (B1) A MINOR EXTENSION TO INCLUDE A ROOF ALTERATION, (B2) ALTERATIONS TO THE SITE/BUILDINGS EXTERNAL ENVELOPE WHICH WILL ACCOMODATE UPGRADE WORKS FOR FIRE COMPLIANCE, (B3) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, INSTALL MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND (B4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON SITE B (C) CONSTRUCT A CAR PARKING AREA WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 23816

• 29 Jun 2022N/a

  RETAIN (A) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ENGINEERING WORKSHOP AND (B) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 22703

• 9 May 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLISH EXISTING SPA PLANT ROOM, (2) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE HOTEL SPA, COMPRISING NEW SAUNA, STEAM ROOM AND SALT ROOM, EXTENDED RELAXATION ROOM, NEW PREPARATION ROOM, LAUNDRY AND PLANT ROOMS, (3) CONSTRUCT ALL ASSOCIATED INTERNAL CIRCULATION AND ANCILLARY SPACES TO SERVE THE WORKS, (4) CONSTRUCT AN ENCLOSED EXTERNAL COURTYARD CONTAINING A NEW HOT-TUB/PLUNGE-POOL AND A COVERED SEAWEED BATHS ENCLOSURE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARTY FACILITIES, (5) CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 22481

• 23 Dec 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCT THE FOLLOWING WORKS: (1) AN EXTENSION TO THE HOTEL SPA, COMPRISING NEW SAUNA, STEAM ROOM AND SALT ROOM, (2) AN ENCLOSED EXTERNAL COURTYARD WITH HOT-TUB/PLUNGE-POOL AND ANCILLARY FACILITIES, (3) ALL ASSOCIATED CIRCULATION AND ANCILLARY SPACES TO SERVE THE WORKS, (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211524

• 31 May 2021Conditional

  (A) PERMISSION TO RETAIN ELEVATION CHANGES MADE TO THE BUILDING AND (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE BUILDING

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 21580

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT (A) SINGLE STOREY DWELING, SERVICED BY A MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER (B) A VEHICULAR ACCESS, AND ASSOCIATED DRIVEWAY, SHARED WITH AGRICULTURAL TRAFFIC (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21199

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCT A STAND-ALONE MARRIAGE CEREMONY BUILDING AND CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20854

• 23 Jan 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND (ICW) FOR THE SECONDARY AND TERTIARY TREATMENT OF POST-BALANCING TANK WASTEWATER AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS.THE ICW WILL INCLUDE FOUR TREATMENT CELLS, CONNECTING PIPEWORK AND A DISCHARGE TO THE RIVER LEE AT THE SOUTH WEST CORNER OF THE SITE. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2040

• 14 Nov 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A STAND-ALONE MARRIAGE CEREMONY BUILDING AND CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 191160

• 15 Feb 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND TO CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT AND TO INCUDE AN OUTFALL PIPE TO THE RIVER LEE THROUGH ADJOINING LANDS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19136

• 29 Jan 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT (A) A NEW SHED WITH A LEAN TO ROOF WHICH WILL BE USED AS A VALET WORKSHOP (B)CONSTRUCT A NEW ROOF CANOPY OVER EXISTING HARDSTAND AREA WHICH IS BEING USED AS A CAR WASH AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 1969

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 Ballingowan.

Recorded monuments

• KE029-158 Enclosure
  Description

  'This recorded site is described in the RMP manual as an enclosure. It is not marked on any edition of the OS and must originally have been identified from aerial photography. The site is located at an elevation of 35m on the top of a limestone ridge that runs east-west through the townland of Ballingowan. The site affords expansive views in all directions particularly to the north-east where the three main peaks of the Stacks Mountains and the pass between Kilmore and Ballincollig Hill can clearly be seen, and to the southern half of the compass, where the full expanse of the Sliabh Mis from Baurtregaunm in the west to Knockawaddra in the east dominate the skyline. Of particular note is the way the view of the more easterly and larger cairn on the saddle below the summit of Knockawaddra is underlined by a mountain spur in the foreground, which would block the view of the cairn from a lower elevation.The site itself is very denuded but is clearly visible. The enclosing element is a very flattened stone and earth bank, best preserved at the north where it is 5.5m wide, 0,60m high externally and 0.40m high internally. On the western side this bank has been incorporated into a curved field boundary and material from the bank has been scraped together to form a field bank. On the eastern side the bank takes the form of an enhanced scarp, where the natural slope of the land down to the east has been utilised. At the south the site is cut by an east-west running field wall and underlying bank, which forms the northern side of a large oval enclosure not recorded on the RMP [KE029-251----]. There are no visible internal features and no evidence of a ditch either internally or externally. The site has internal dimensions of 72m N-S and 71m E-W.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 20 June 2012

• KE029-159 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE029-160001 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE029-160002 Field boundary
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE029-162 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE029-169 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE029-170 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE029-265 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  'Approximately 200m south – south-east of the embanked enclosure at Ballingowan, this previously unrecorded site is located on a limestone outcrop or reef on the eastern outskirts of Tralee. The site is oval or egg shaped the narrower end to the west and measures 155m E-W and 104m N-S. Except for the eastern end, the perimeter of the site is marked by a modern stone wall, which sits on an earlier stone and earth bank. This wall also cuts the site from N-S at a point 40m from its eastern end. The original bank of the site can be seen beneath the wall particularly on the southern side where the wall has been constructed on the inner edge of the bank. The bank under the wall on the southern side is on average 4.5m wide and 0.35m high externally. The landowner informed me that much of the stone for the wall was in fact derived from the remains of the bank. At the eastern end the bank is clearly visible and similar to the bank of recorded enclosure KE029-158---- takes the form of an enhanced scarp. It measures 7.5m in maximum width and due to the natural slope/scarp of the ridge, is 1.2m on average, in external height and 0.45m in internal height. Immediately inside the bank the limestone bedrock is exposed in places and has clearly been quarried from a number of pits, possibly to construct the bank, which contains stone and earth. There is no evidence of a ditch. as are a number of depressions and holes which may have served as quarry ditches to provide material for the bank. This oval enclosure cuts an earlier site (RMP KE029-158----) at a point 50m from its western end.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 20 June 2012

• KE029-306 Burnt mound
  Description

  'Situated in a large reclaimed field immediately to the east of a small tributary of the River Lee, which was deep ploughed in 1997, are a series of low stone-filled mounds. Boulder clay is obvious where the top of the mound has been denuded, this probably being the result of the sod being turned. Some evidence of burnt stone is apparent.....[the] fulacht fiadh is immediately to the north of an east/west field boundary, and as in the other cases, is substantially destroyed. Its total dimensions are 6.50m N-S by 8.50m E-W and is 0.20m in height. A disturbed central trough area measures 4.00m E-W by 1.00m N-S and opens to the west. The bottom of the trough is 0.40m below the present level of the mound.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 27 April 2012

• KE029-307 Burnt mound
  Description

  'Situated in a large reclaimed field immediately to the east of a small tributary of the River Lee, which was deep ploughed in 1997, are a series of low stone-filled mounds. Boulder clay is obvious where the top of the mound has been denuded, this probably being the result of the sod being turned. Some evidence of burnt stone is apparent.....[the] mound occurs to the north of the previous example [KE029-306----], measuring 7.00m N-S by 7.00m E-W and is 0.25m in height. A trough area opens to the west, measuring 3.00m N-S by 1.00m E-W and is 0.40m below the crest of the mound. Again boulder clay is in evidence on the disturbed top of the mound, showing that deep ploughing was carried out on this field.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 27 April 2012

• KE029-308 Burnt mound
  Description

  'Situated in a large reclaimed field immediately to the east of a small tributary of the River Lee, which was deep ploughed in 1997, are a series of low stone-filled mounds. Boulder clay is obvious where the top of the mound has been denuded, this probably being the result of the sod being turned. Some evidence of burnt stone is apparent.....the largest of the three mounds [see KE029-307----, KE029-306----] is also the most northerly example in this field. It measures 8.50m N-S by 7.50m E-W and survives to a height of 0.25m above surrounding ground level. The trough, which opens to the west, is 3.50m N-S by 1.00m E-W. The bottom of this trough is 0.45m below the crest of the mound. As in the previous examples this site has been much disturbed due to land reclaimation and deep ploughing.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 27 April 2012

• KE029-315 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, immediately to south of stream and townland boundary. Ovoid depression (1.6 m N-S; 3m E-W; D 0.4m) surrounded by a low horse-shoe shaped mound of black earth and burnt stone. Mound material is most obvious along southern edge. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 31 August 2012

• KE029-316 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low lying marshy pasture, c. 21m to south of sream running along townland boundary. Ovoid depression (1.5m N-S; 3.6m E-W; D 0.4m). No discernible mound material along edges although black earth and heat shattered stones are visible at ground level. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 31 August 2012

• KE029-317 Pit alignment
  Description

  Discovered in the course of archaeological excavations undertaken by Rubicon Heritage Services in advance of the construction of the N22 Tralee Bypass. The remains comprised two rows of pits that appeared to form an avenue on an alignment which was approximately 8 degrees S of an E-W axis. The rows were not perfectly parallel with each other and the distance between them was 8.6m at the E (at the limit of the excavated area) and gradually narrowed to a minimum of 5.1 m at the W. The N row contained 16 pits (0.05m – 0.34m in depth) and the S row, 18 pits (0.11m – 0.42m in depth). The rows each measured c.30m in length but it is likely that they extended further to the E beyond the road-take and this hypothesis is supported by the results of geophysical survey in this area. The space between the pits averaged 1m. No datable artifacts or material suitable for radiocarbon dating was retrieved from the pits. These pits are likely to have functioned as post-pits, as there was evidence in a number of the features for post packing and post-pipes. No comparable monument has been identified in Ireland (pers. comm. Rubicon Heritage Services). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 12 December 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_150 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballingowan · Baile an Ghabhann

Area

937,183 m² (93.72 ha, 231.58 acres)

Civil parish

Ratass, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Ballyseedy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyseedy electoral division: 1,968 people in 638 households; 71% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinorig South, Caherbreagh, Curraghleha East, Curraghleha West, Manor East, Ratass

Placenames

Ballingowan 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.