Ballingowan

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingowan, from 368 m² to 170,645 m² (17.06 ha, 42.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ballingowan 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 Ballingowan 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballingowan.

Recorded monuments

• KE005-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 27m N-S, 30m E-W This site has an excellent view of the surrounding countryside. It appears to have been a bivallate rath, but about 10 years ago it was levelled considerably. Today all that remains is a raised D-shaped area enclosed by a fosse. The inner area rises to a height of between .6m-2.4m above the fosse. The fosse measures 3m in width and 1m below the height of the surrounding land. According to a local man, Mr Barry, this fort used to have very high steep banks and a very steep fosse. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 252. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE005-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 47m N-S, 53m E-W Situated in a corner of a field in gently sloping pastureland, the views are extensive in all directions. This bivallate rath consists of a large sub-circular area enclosed by a well-defined bank, a wide steep fosse and outer enclosing bank. SE to E, an outer bank and fosse cannot be distinguished. The exterior height of the inner bank varies between 1.6m-2.8m and on average 1.4m above the interior. The fosse measures c 3m in width. The external height of the outer bank measures 1.2m-1.3m above the fosse. The entrance which was possibly stone lined lies SE and measures 4m in width. This large fort was the headquarters of the Whiteboys in the parish in 1786 (Dan Kissane, 1987). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 253. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE005-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This site lay at the bottom of a pastoral field and appears on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure, but on the later edition it is more oval in plan. The fieldbank that lies immediately S is the boundary between Ballingowan and Loughanes. This site has been completely levelled and no surface trace survives. However, it does show up on the Geological Survey of Ireland aerial photographs (1974). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 254. 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 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 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 Ballingowan.

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

601,243 m² (60.12 ha, 148.57 acres)

Civil parish

Lisselton, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Urlee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Urlee electoral division: 376 people in 148 households; 86% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Killomeerhoe, Lacka East, Loughanes, Lyre

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.