Ballybane

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybane, from 329 m² to 299,790 m² (29.98 ha, 74.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Ballybane 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.

• 28 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SELF CONTAINED GRANNY FLAT AT THE REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18279

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 Ballybane.

Recorded monuments

• KE048-056 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated between the Tralee-Killarney railway line to the E and the Scart-Fieries road to the W. A slightly raised area (c. 17.3m N-S) is visible in the approximate location of this possible enclosure. A shed, with an adjacent bungalow, now occupies most of the area. There is a circular feature visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, Q 204). (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE048-170 Enclosure
  Description

  Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as the location of possible enclosures. There is no visible surface trace of any enclosure at this location. A small, oval rise (dims. c. 6m NE-SW; c. 4m NW-SE) is located on top of a naturally formed plateau, c. 45m to SE of the grid point. This could be described as an area of archaeological potential. Traces of levelled field boundaries, which correspond to those on historic mapping, are within the vicinity. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 8 September 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_167 (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 Ballybane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballybane

Area

1,063,341 m² (106.33 ha, 262.76 acres)

Civil parish

Molahiffe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Molahiffe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Molahiffe electoral division: 1,718 people in 611 households; 79% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corbally, Dromore, Gortalassa, Gurteenroe, Killahane, Rossmore, Skahies

Placenames

Ballybane 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.