Ballintleave
Ballintleave is a townland in the civil parish of Killorglin, barony of Iveragh, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 157.9 ha
- 390 acres
- Land parcels
- 140
- registered freehold, median 3,557 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
140 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintleave, from 28 m² to 76,472 m² (7.65 ha, 18.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballintleave 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jun 2026Conditional
Permission to (a) Construct a Single Storey Dwelling House and (b) Install a Mechanical Treatment Unit and Polishing Filter and all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660589
18 Jul 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLISH THE LEAN-TO STRUCTURE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCT A SINGLE-STOREY, FLAT-ROOF EXTENSION OF APPROXIMATELY 25M2 INCORPORATEING THE EXISTING REAR RETURN TO CREATE A UNIFIED ADDITION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (3) ADD 2 NEW ROOF WINDOWS ON THE EXISTING SOUTH FACING ROOF, ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 25197
7 Apr 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION ONTO THE FRONT SIDE AND REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2583
31 Aug 2023Conditional
(A) permission to make minor alterations to the design of the dwelling house as granted under Planning Ref. 21/1023 all in accordance with plans and particulars submitted (B) Permission to construct a Garage and (C) All associated ancillary site works all within revised site boundaries. The Proposed Plans and Elevations have been slightly amended as previously granted in planning 21/1023 to make the construction of the the building more feasible. The proposed dwelling house heights will remain at 5.950metres as the previous planning ref 21/1023. A Garage of 40 sqm is proposed with a height of 3.1metres. The proposed WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM IS the same proposal as granted in 21/1023. The site boundary has been revised to reduce the site to 0.99acres.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360135
17 May 2022Conditional
TO DEMOLISH EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHEDS AND TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND PURAFLO PEAT FILTERS ON SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22518
12 Oct 2021Refused
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND A POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211162
22 Sept 2021Conditional
(A) RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE (B) RETAIN GARAGE, TURF SHED AND GARDEN SHED BUILDINGS AS CONSTRUCTED AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO (A) DEMOLISH GARAGE ON SITE (B) EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE (C) CONSTRUCT A NEW GARAGE ON SITE (D) INSTALL MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN SITE BOUNDAREIS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211072
7 Sept 2021Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE (B) INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211023
25 Jun 2021Refused
DEMOLISH EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHEDS AND CONSTRUCT A NEW TRADITIONAL TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE C/W NEW SEPTIC TANK AND SECONDARY TREATMENT PURAFLOW PEAT FILTERS OVER A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21700
7 Apr 2020Conditional
TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TO INSTALL A NEW WASTE TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20329
2 May 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE C/W SEPTIC TANK AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED AND CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19465
6 Sept 2017Conditional
RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED AND RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS WITHIN SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17881
19 Jul 2017N/a
RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORE AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention · Kerry County Council, 17691
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
- Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
- Special Protection Area: Castlemaine Harbour SPA 004029
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballintleave.
Architectural heritage
- Caragh Bridge, bridge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Six-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, built c. 1810, with rubble stone U-cutwaters. Straddles two townlands.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballintleave, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballintleave.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballintleave, Glenbeigh5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballintleave
- Area
- 1,579,119 m² (157.91 ha, 390.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killorglin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Electoral division
- Caragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 999 people lived in 375 households in the Caragh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintleave Commons, Commaun, Curraheen, Knockaunglass, Quaybaun, Scartnamackagh
- Placenames
- Ballintleave 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.