Ballycarbery East

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycarbery East, from 11 m² to 164,024 m² (16.4 ha, 40.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballycarbery East 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  to build a private single storey dwelling with treatment unit and soil polishing filter

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560857

• 4 Jul 2025Conditional

  Permission to Construct a Dwellinghouse and Domestic Garage Served by an Effluent Treatment Tank and Polishing Filter at Ballycarbery East, Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted with this application.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560569

• 21 Nov 2024N/a

  Construct a dwelling house and install a wastewater treatment unit with a raised percolation area at Ballycarbery East, Caherciveen , Co.KERRY.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460901

• 14 Dec 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission for Change of Building Design from that granted under Planning Reference 20/496

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360411

• 30 May 2023N/a

  (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH FILTRATION AREA, (B) ENTRANCE ROAD AND ALL ASSOICATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 23623

• 30 May 2023N/a

  (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH FILTRATION AREA, (B) ENTRANCE ROAD AND ALL ASSOICATED SITE WORKS AT HIS SITE LOCATED

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 23624

• 2 May 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23478

• 9 Oct 2020Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE WITH MODIFIED CONDITION 4 OF PLANNING REF. NO. 20/389

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20954

• 10 Jun 2020Conditional

  1. CONSTRUCT AN AQUACULTURE WORKSHOP APPROX 578 sq.M FOR THE GRADING AND PROCESSING OF OYSTERS INCLUDING PRODUCTION AREA, MACHINERY STORE, OFFICE, CHANGING ROOM AND SANITARY FACILITIES. 2. INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT WITH A PUMPED SUPPLY TO A PERCOLATION AREA OUTSIDE OF THE SITE. 3. INSTALLATION OF A DEPURATION SETTLEMENT TANK, AND BORED WELL TO SUPPLEMENT EXISTING WATER MAIN. 4. CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE APRON YARDS, CAR PARKING AND ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20496

• 29 Apr 2020Conditional

  RETAIN AND COMPLETE HOUSE AS BEING CONSTRUCTED AND PERMISSION TO INSTALL AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND SANDCEL POLISHING FILTER

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20389

• 17 Jul 2019N/a

  RETAIN AND COMPLETE HOUSE AS BEING CONSTRUCTED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19754

• 7 Aug 2018N/a

  1. CONSTRUCTION OF AN AQUACULTURE WORKSHOP 15M X 25M FOR THE GRADING AND PROCESSING OF OYSTERS INCLUDING MACHINERY STORE AND HARD STANDING APRONS FOR STORAGE AND WORK AREAS. 2. SERVICES BUILDING ANCILLARY TO SAME TO INCLUDE OFFICE, CANTEEN, CHANGING ROOM, STORE, W.C.'S ETC. INCLUDING CAR PARKING TO THE SAME. 3. INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT WITH A PUMPED SUPPLY TO A PERCOLATION AREA OUTSIDE OF THE SITE AND THE INSTALLATION OF A BORED WELL ON SITE

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 18773

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: Valencia Harbour/Portmagee Channel SAC 002262
• Special Protection Area: Iveragh Peninsula SPA 004154
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Valencia River Estuary 001383

Recorded monuments

• KE079-034 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Tradition attributes the building of this castle to one Carbery O'Shea (Chatterton 1839, 285), but it is more firmly associated with the MacCarthys. Some form of residence appears to have stood at Ballycarbery in 1398 when Taghd Mac Carthaigh's death there is recorded in the annals (Ó hInnse 1947, 113), but the existing ruins are later in date and are probably those of 'the castle of Valencyen called Ballycarborow', referred to in a document of 1569 (Cal Car MSS 1569, 389). It is noted as a MacCarthy More castle in 1594 (King 1910, 215). Other sixteenth-century sources indicate that it was occupied by the O’Connells in their capacity as MacCarthy wardens (Fiants Eliz No’s. 488,6469, 6569); one Morgan O’Connell of Ballycarbery, for instance, became High Sheriff of Kerry during Elizabethan times. Possession of the castle passed to Sir Valentine Browne following the death of Daniel MacCarthy More - the Earl of Clancar - in 1596 (Hussey 1916a, 252). It appears to have been slighted by parliament forces in 1651-52, when Valencia Harbour was being fortified (Stalley 1991, 127). The castle is located on a slight eminence on the N shore of the tidal estuary of the River Ferta, just E of Valencia Harbour. Dated by Leask to the fifteenth century (1973, 157), it comprises a fine, ivy-covered tower house surrounded by the remains of a bawn. Much of the S and E walls of both the keep and bawn are destroyed, presumably due to the mid-seventeenth-century slighting, though a portion of the bawn at S was dismantled and removed in the early twentieth century (Cochrane 1910, 57). A pair of early nineteenth-century watercolours of the castle by Daniel Grose depict large masses of faced masonry lying on its S and E sides (PI. XXVIII; Stalley 1991, No. 53); most of these were also removed in the early twentieth century. The tower house is rectangular in plan and measures 22.5m x 12.9m; there is an attached turret at its NE corner. Built of roughly coursed blocks, slabs and split stone rubble laid in a lime, pebble and stone-chip mortar, the walls display a low but prominent base batter. The undressed quoins are alternately face-bedded. The building is of three storeys, with vaults roofing the first floor level. Communication with the second floor, which appears to have formed the hall of the castle, was by means of two sets of mural stairs. It has a series of fine windows with limestone dressings, but many of the stepped merlons are missing. The entrance is at ground level and is located off-centre to the N wall. Here the batter of the wall is interrupted to accommodate a 1.75m wide round-headed doorway, arched with pitched stones; its E jamb does not survive, but two drawbar sockets occur opposite. A shallow groove on the upper surface of one of the W jamb-stones may represent the housing for the hinge of a yett. The vault of the small entrance lobby is of pitched stone and traces of the wooden framework which supported its centring are visible; it is pierced by a portcullis groove which was served from the second floor window embrasure. A straight mural stair leads E from the lobby to the first and second floors of the building. The stair is approached through a poorly preserved doorway, only the S jamb of which survives. This is formed from well-cut ashlar blocks and immediately behind it two iron stumps, probably the remains of butt-hinges, are set in the S wall of the stair lobby. The entrance lobby communicates with the central ground floor chamber through a tall, segmental headed doorway with jambs of roughly cut blocks. The door was secured from within by a pair of drawbars for which both the sockets and channels are preserved. The ground floor of the building was divided into three transversely disposed chambers with average dimensions of 7.15m x 4.95m. Only that at W is intact. The first floor was accommodated beneath the pointed vaults of these chambers, which were constructed on wicker centring. The two dividing walls and the single surviving end-wall at ground floor level are pierced by a number of holes. The central chamber was lit by a window in the S wall, of which traces of the embrasure ingoing survive. Access to the W chamber is through a round-headed doorway which was built askew; it is fitted with an internal drawbar channel and socket. Traces of plastering survive in this chamber, which was lit by a loop set in a large vaulted embrasure in the N wall. A doorway is accommodated in its W ingoing and interrupts the vault; through it access is gained to another mural stair which leads to second floor level. Beam sockets in the embrasure ingoing may have supported a short wooden stair to give access to this doorway. A large blocked embrasure with a segmental rear arch occurs in the S wall of the chamber, and two large wall-cupboards occur in the W wall; the larger features a relieving arch overhead. The E chamber was probably entered through a doorway in the largely destroyed wall which separated it from the central chamber. In its NE corner is an ope, set low down, through which access was gained into a downward-sloping, blocked mural passage which appears to have led into the foundation area of the turret. The first floor of the building is comprised of three chambers accommodated beneath the transverse vaults and carried on a series of beams, the ends of which were embedded in the side-walls during construction. The end-walls of the chambers appear to have been built subsequent to the construction of the vaults. Access to the E chamber was through a doorway in its N wall which opens off the mural stair ascending from the entrance lobby. Access to the W and central chambers was probably by means of timber stairs from the ground floor chambers beneath; a number of beam sockets which are preserved near the NW corner of the W ground floor chamber may have served to secure such a stair. Both the central and W first floor chambers were lit by narrow loops at N, set in deep, rectangular embrasures. Traces of an embrasure ingoing survives in the S end-wall of the central chamber, and it is probable that a loop in this position also lit the largely destroyed E chamber. The commodious mural stair which ascends from the entrance lobby to the second floor of the building is broken in places. Ceiled by slabs which rest on the oversail formed by a slight inward corbel of its high side-walls, it is lit by three narrow loops set in lintelled, splayed embrasures. It ascends to a doorway, furnished internally with a single drawbar socket, through which access is gained to a small lobby; the ceiling slab immediately outside features a large circular perforation of uncertain purpose. The lobby is accommodated in the E wall of the building at a slightly lower level than the second floor; it is lit by a splayed loop at E, and from it access is gained, through a poorly preserved doorway at N, into a small room which comprises the first floor of the corner turret. This room is spanned by a low vault, and is lit by splayed, lintelled loops at N, E and W. A short stair ascends from the S side of the lobby to the E end of the second floor hall. The second mural stair commences at the doorway set in an ingoing of the large window embrasure in the W ground floor chamber. The doorway could be secured from within by a drawbar, the sockets for which remain. The stair turns to S in the NW angle of the building, and after a short ascent leads to another doorway which could be secured from its S side by means of two drawbars. From here the stair continues to ascend and is stepped to E to maintain its central position in the wall which is reduced in thickness at this level. It leads to a short mural passage at the S end of which a doorway, with only the N jamb surviving, gives access to the W end of the second floor hall. The stair and passage are ceiled by slabs and are lit by three splayed loops. The walls of the building are reduced in thickness from an average of 2.65m above the ba

• KE079-034001 Castle - hall-house
  Description

  Tradition attributes the building of this castle to one Carbery O'Shea (Chatterton 1839, 285), but it is more firmly associated with the MacCarthys. Some form of residence appears to have stood at Ballycarbery in 1398 when Taghd Mac Carthaigh's death there is recorded in the annals (Ó hInnse 1947, 113), but the existing ruins are later in date and are probably those of 'the castle of Valencyen called Ballycarborow', referred to in a document of 1569 (Cal Car MSS 1569, 389). It is noted as a MacCarthy More castle in 1594 (King 1910, 215). Other sixteenth-century sources indicate that it was occupied by the O’Connells in their capacity as MacCarthy wardens (Fiants Eliz No’s. 488,6469, 6569); one Morgan O’Connell of Ballycarbery, for instance, became High Sheriff of Kerry during Elizabethan times. Possession of the castle passed to Sir Valentine Browne following the death of Daniel MacCarthy More - the Earl of Clancar - in 1596 (Hussey 1916a, 252). It appears to have been slighted by parliament forces in 1651-52, when Valencia Harbour was being fortified (Stalley 1991, 127). The castle is located on a slight eminence on the N shore of the tidal estuary of the River Ferta, just E of Valencia Harbour. Dated by Leask to the fifteenth century (1973, 157), it comprises a fine, ivy-covered tower house surrounded by the remains of a bawn. Much of the S and E walls of both the keep and bawn are destroyed, presumably due to the mid-seventeenth-century slighting, though a portion of the bawn at S was dismantled and removed in the early twentieth century (Cochrane 1910, 57). A pair of early nineteenth-century watercolours of the castle by Daniel Grose depict large masses of faced masonry lying on its S and E sides (PI. XXVIII; Stalley 1991, No. 53); most of these were also removed in the early twentieth century. The castle (KE079-034----) stands within the remains of a bawn (KE079-034002-) which originally enclosed an area measuring 31.6m N-S by at least 35m E-W. At present only the W wall and the W portion of the N wall remain; the remains of the S wall at W, c. 10m in length, were demolished in the early twentieth century (Cochrane 1910, 57), as was the E sector of the N wall (Lecky 1914, 51). The bawn wall at W rises from a slightly battered base, 1.65m in thickness, to an average height of 4.2m. A gap at N, 1.9m in width, may represent the original entrance into the bawn which was described by Lecky as formerly having 'holed stones to either side on which the gate was pivoted' (1914, 51). Between this gap and the NW corner are two loops, and a series of four others occur in the W wall. These narrow, vertical loops are set in splayed lintelled embrasures, 1.2m in average height. On top of the wall is the remains of an alure, and near the N end of the W wall a short stair descends from this to a mural chamber of trapezoidal plan which is furnished with a cupboard in its N end-wall. The chamber is located above a loop embrasure which was partially blocked to become an internally discharging chute when the chamber was modified and fitted with a garderobe. This modification may be connected with the construction, probably in the eighteenth century, of a large house abutting the exterior of the bawn wall at this point. This house, which was demolished in the early twentieth century, is depicted in both of Grose's water-colours (PI. XXVIII; Stalley 1991, No. 53) and was the residence of the Lauder family (Hussey 1916a, 251). To see a 3D model of this monument visit: https://skfb.ly/onuQN The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1101. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE079-034002 Bawn
  Description

  Tradition attributes the building of this castle to one Carbery O'Shea (Chatterton 1839, 285), but it is more firmly associated with the MacCarthys. Some form of residence appears to have stood at Ballycarbery in 1398 when Taghd Mac Carthaigh's death there is recorded in the annals (Ó hInnse 1947, 113), but the existing ruins are later in date and are probably those of 'the castle of Valencyen called Ballycarborow', referred to in a document of 1569 (Cal Car MSS 1569, 389). It is noted as a MacCarthy More castle in 1594 (King 1910, 215). Other sixteenth-century sources indicate that it was occupied by the O’Connells in their capacity as MacCarthy wardens (Fiants Eliz No’s. 488,6469, 6569); one Morgan O’Connell of Ballycarbery, for instance, became High Sheriff of Kerry during Elizabethan times. Possession of the castle passed to Sir Valentine Browne following the death of Daniel MacCarthy More - the Earl of Clancar - in 1596 (Hussey 1916a, 252). It appears to have been slighted by parliament forces in 1651-52, when Valencia Harbour was being fortified (Stalley 1991, 127). The castle is located on a slight eminence on the N shore of the tidal estuary of the River Ferta, just E of Valencia Harbour. Dated by Leask to the fifteenth century (1973, 157), it comprises a fine, ivy-covered tower house surrounded by the remains of a bawn. Much of the S and E walls of both the keep and bawn are destroyed, presumably due to the mid-seventeenth-century slighting, though a portion of the bawn at S was dismantled and removed in the early twentieth century (Cochrane 1910, 57). A pair of early nineteenth-century watercolours of the castle by Daniel Grose depict large masses of faced masonry lying on its S and E sides (PI. XXVIII; Stalley 1991, No. 53); most of these were also removed in the early twentieth century. The castle stands within the remains of a bawn (KE079-034002-) which originally enclosed an area measuring 31.6m N-S by at least 35m E-W. At present only the W wall and the W portion of the N wall remain; the remains of the S wall at W, c. 10m in length, were demolished in the early twentieth century (Cochrane 1910, 57), as was the E sector of the N wall (Lecky 1914, 51). The bawn wall at W rises from a slightly battered base, 1.65m in thickness, to an average height of 4.2m. A gap at N, 1.9m in width, may represent the original entrance into the bawn which was described by Lecky as formerly having 'holed stones to either side on which the gate was pivoted' (1914, 51). Between this gap and the NW corner are two loops, and a series of four others occur in the W wall. These narrow, vertical loops are set in splayed lintelled embrasures, 1.2m in average height. On top of the wall is the remains of an alure, and near the N end of the W wall a short stair descends from this to a mural chamber of trapezoidal plan which is furnished with a cupboard in its N end-wall. The chamber is located above a loop embrasure which was partially blocked to become an internally discharging chute when the chamber was modified and fitted with a garderobe. This modification may be connected with the construction, probably in the eighteenth century, of a large house abutting the exterior of the bawn wall at this point. This house, which was demolished in the early twentieth century, is depicted in both of Grose's water-colours (PI. XXVIII; Stalley 1991, No. 53) and was the residence of the Lauder family (Hussey 1916a, 251). To see a 3D model of this monument visit: https://skfb.ly/onuQN The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1101. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycarbery East.

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

Name

Ballycarbery East · Baile Uí Chairbre Thoir

Area

984,235 m² (98.42 ha, 243.21 acres)

Civil parish

Caher, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Castlequin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlequin electoral division: 583 people in 225 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarbery West, Castlequin, Kimego East, Kimego West

Placenames

Ballycarbery East 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.