Ballyard

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyard, from 73 m² to 81,368 m² (8.14 ha, 20.11 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 35 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism & Related (Tourism and related)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Mixed/general 'green'/recreational/conservation, other (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S4General Public Administration (General public administration)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 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

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

• 13 Apr 2026Conditional

  (A) FOR A MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FROM DOMESTIC RESIDENTIAL TO RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME, (B) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING FLOOR LAYOUTS AND ELEVATIONS (C) CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR NORTH ELEVATION & (D) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ENTRANCE AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660324

• 27 Nov 2025Conditional

  A 10 year permission for the following- 40 no. two storey semi-detached and terraced residential dwellings (6 no. 2 Beds, 22 no. 3 beds & 12 no. 4 beds), 68 no. in curtilage parking spaces, shared open spaces, emergency vehicle access from Lovers Lane, emergency vehicle access to the permitted but not yet constructed adjoining residential development (KCC Ref- 23251), utilisation of existing vehicle and pedestrian access, landscaping and all associated and ancillary site works necessary

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561102

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of : the construction of a single storey extension to the rear and side of an existing single storey dwelling including ancillary works to existing outbuildings and associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561047

• 23 Sept 2024Conditional

  (A) MODIFY THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE TO ACCOMODATE PEDESTRIAN ACCESS ONLY (B)CONSTRUCT A NEW VEHICULAR SITE ENTRANCE IN A REVISED LOCATION AND (C) CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24374

• 12 Jun 2024Conditional

  TO RETAIN EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC CONVERSION, ALSO RETAIN 2 NO. SHEDS ON SITE

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24240

• 24 May 2024Refused

  Alteration to development previously approved under Reg. Ref. 23/251 comprising (i) the omission of Condition 10 and the associated removal of the emergency access route connecting the subject site to the unnamed road to the south; and (ii) all ancillary works, inclusive of revised landscaping and boundary treatments, necessary to facilitate the development.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460319

• 8 Aug 2023Conditional

  Permission to a) construct a new dwelling b) install a mechanical treatment unit and sand polishing filter c) construct a vehicular site entrance and d) construct all associated site works e) revise the site boundaries and Retention Permission to retain existing shed on site

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360075

• 22 Mar 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK AND A NEW CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23315

• 9 Mar 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT COMPRISING OF 25 DETACHED RESIDENTIAL DWELLINGS (20 NO. 4-BED 2-STOREY AND 5 NO. 5-BED 3-STOREY) AND REAR GARDEN ANCILLARY BUILDINGS FOR 8 OF THE DWELLINGS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ALSO PROVIDES FOR 56 NO. CAR PARKING SPACES, SHARED OPEN SPACES, A SITE ENTRANCE FEATURE, UTILISATION OF THE EXISTING VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS, PROVISION OF EMERGENCY ACCESS FROM LOVER'S LANE, ALTERATIONS TO A SHED ON LOVER'S LANE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS NECESSARY TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission, 25 homes · Kerry County Council, 23251

• 23 Jun 2022Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECT A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE IN PLACE OF SAME, PERMISSION TO ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE ANCILLARY TO THE NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION TO TAKE DOWN THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE EXISTING STONE ENTRANCE AND CONSTRUCT A NEW SMALLER ENTRANCE GATE TO SERVE THE DEVELOPMENT COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH SAME INCLUDING CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22664

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, AND A NEW CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22159

• 22 Jun 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCT A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT COMPRISING 25 DETACHED RESIDENTIAL DWELLINGS (20 N0. 4 BED 2 STOREY AND 5 NO. 5 BED 3 STOREY) AND REAR GARDEN ANCILLARY BUILDINGS FOR 8 OF THE DWELLINGS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ALSO PROVIDES FOR 50 NO. CAR PARKING SPACES,SHARED OPEN SPACES, A SITE ENTRANCE FEATURE, UTILISATION OF THE EXISTING VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS NECESSARY

  Permission, 25 homes · Kerry County Council, 21678

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  MAKE ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONVERT A GARAGE TO A HOME OFFICE/STUDIO

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21564

• 19 Feb 2021Conditional

  DEVELOP AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING, A NEW CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC WASTEWATER MAINS AND ALL ASSOCATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21154

• 27 Oct 2020Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE EXISTING INSITU DWELLING HOUSE SUBJECT OF PLANNING APPLICATION REF NO 19/908. (B) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE ALTERATION OF THE DESIGN OF THE PROPOSED EXTENSION AS GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER THE PLANNING REF 19/908. (C) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201020

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  ERECT NEW DWELLING HOUSE ON MY SITE AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS WITH FRONT ENTRANCE GATES AND RETAIN EXISING STONE WALL AND CONNECTIONS TO ALL EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20855

• 28 Aug 2019Conditional

  FOR ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO A HOUSE, COMPLETE WITH REVISED ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SERVICES ALL

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19908

• 18 May 2018Conditional

  REFURBISH AN EXISTING 3 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING (A) ELEVATIONAL MODIFICATIONS AND NEW EXTERNAL DOORS AND WINDOWS THROUGHOUT (B) STRENGTHEN THE EXISTING MANSARD ROOF STRUCTURE AND REPLACE THE EXISTING ROOF FINISH (C) DEMOLISH AN EXISTING SUNROOM TO THE SOUTH OF THE DWELLING (D) EXTEND WITH A TWO STOREY PORCH/ENTRY TO THE NORTH OF THE DWELLING (E) CONNECT AN EXISTING SHED TO THE DWELLING WITH A SINGLE STOREY CARPORT STRUCTURE TO THE EAST (F) THE ADDITION OF A SINGLE STOREY ORANGERY TO THE WEST (G) WIDEN THE EXISTING ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18469

• 16 May 2018N/a

  CREATE A NEW JUNCTION WITH AN EXISTING PUBLIC ROAD, PROPOSED NEW ACCESS ROAD AND ASSOCIATED ROADWAY AND FOOTPATHS, CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. TWO STOREY DETACHED DWELLING UNITS, 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION DETACHED DWELLING UNIT AND 6 NO. STOREY AND A HALF DETACHED DWELLING UNITS, ALSO TO INCLUDE CONNECTION TO THE RELEVANT PUBLIC SERVICES, ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND EXTERNAL BOUNDARY TREATMENTS ALL

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 18463

• 1 Aug 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AT SITE NUMBER 3

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17753

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: Tralee Bay and Magharees Peninsula, West to Cloghane SAC 002070
• Special Protection Area: Tralee Bay Complex SPA 004188
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tralee Bay And Magharees Peninsula, West To Cloghane 002070

Recorded monuments

• KE029-267 Enclosure
  Description

  'Infra-red aerial photography (National Coastline Survey) clearly shows a crop mark enclosure at this location on rising ground overlooking the River Lee to the north-north-east. The site shows up as a dark line and is approximately 33m in diameter. There is no trace of this site at ground level.' 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

Architectural heritage

• Ballyard Bridge, bridge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, built c. 1810, on a skewed plan with limestone ashlar voussoirs and keystones. Rubble stone parapet walls with squared coping stones.

• Ballyard House, house, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1828, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house. Comprising single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre, two-bay side elevations, and with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed end bay to south elevation having balcony over. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with parapet walls. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with cornice to base of parapets. Weather slating to eastern facade. Round-headed door opening with timber two-panelled door and arched sidelights. Timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows to basement with grille, and timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows to upper floors, all having limestone sills. Gateway, built c. 1830, to east comprising pair of sandstone ashlar hexagonal piers with wrought-iron gates. Terrace to south with ashlar balustrade c. 1860. Curved avenue with house set on height and surrounded by mature trees.

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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_107 (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 Ballyard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballyard · An Baile Ard

Area

619,015 m² (61.9 ha, 152.96 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Tralee Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tralee Rural electoral division: 19,032 people in 7,091 households; 60% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydunlea, Clahane, Cloghers, Tralee

Placenames

Ballyard 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.