Ballycarbery West

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycarbery West, from 368 m² to 235,873 m² (23.59 ha, 58.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ballycarbery West 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.

• 19 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for the following 1) Permission to demolish part of existing house and two old sheds in ruin condition 2) Permission to renovate, extend and raise roof of existing house 3) Permission to install a septic tank and polishing filter at Ballycarbery West, Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660774

• 23 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A LIVESTOCK UNDERPASS, EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211330

• 26 Oct 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCT A LIVESTOCK UNDERPASS, EFFLUENT HOLDING TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211214

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

• KE079-029 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  This monument lies on level pasture, c. 50m from the E shore of Lough Kay, overlooking Valencia Harbour to SW. Now in very ruined condition, this small tomb consists of an unroofed gallery that is deeply buried in the ground and aligned NE-SW. There are faint traces of a low mound at the N side of the structure. The gallery was originally at least 2.8m long. Its sides each consist of two stones, the W stone on the N side inclining markedly inwards. The stones protrude on average only .3m above ground level. The E end of the gallery is either missing or concealed. At the W end is a transverse stone which may represent some form of an entrance feature (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 62). 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. 70. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982) Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE079-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 26m NW-SE, c. 17.5m NE-SW This considerably modified univallate rath lies in level pastureland on the N side of the tidal estuary of the Ferta river. It is shown on the first edition of the OS map as a circular enclosure abutting a field boundary at W. This boundary had been removed by the 1890s, when the site is depicted on the second edition map as a subrectangular outline truncated by a field boundary at E. In its present form the rath consists of a subrectangular enclosure defined at N and S by its original bank and at E and W by modern boundaries. The original bank, with a slate core, measures .9m high externally on average and survives to a maximum height of 1.7m at SW. It is 2.5m wide and averages no more than .5m high internally. Two adjoining huts occupy the NW sector of the site's interior. That at N (KE079-030002-) is circular in plan and is poorly preserved. It measures 5.8m in internal diameter and some stone facing is visible externally at NW along its gapped outline. A gap at E, .8m wide, may represent the entrance. There is an accumulation of stone collapse between this hut and the inner face of the banks at N and W. The hut at S (KE079-030003-) is square in plan and measures 5m internally. It features stone facing beneath its sod-covered walls, and the entrance at E measures 1.4m wide. The entrance to a stone-built souterrain (KE079-030001-) occurs in the external face of the modified bank at W. A passage appears to run N, but a collapsed lintel prevents entry. 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. 455. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE079-030001 Souterrain
  Description

  The entrance to a stone-built souterrain (KE079-030001-) occurs in the external face of the modified bank at W. A passage appears to run N, but a collapsed lintel prevents entry. 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. 455. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE079-030002 Hut site
  Description

  Two adjoining huts occupy the NW sector of the site's interior. That at N (KE079-030002-) is circular in plan and is poorly preserved. It measures 5.8m in internal diameter and some stone facing is visible externally at NW along its gapped outline. A gap at E, .8m wide, may represent the entrance. There is an accumulation of stone collapse between this hut and the inner face of the banks at N and W. 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. 455. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE079-030003 Hut site
  Description

  The hut at S (KE079-030003-) is square in plan and measures 5m internally. It features stone facing beneath its sod-covered walls, and the entrance at E measures 1.4m wide. 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. 455. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 West.

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

Name

Ballycarbery West · Baile Uí Chairbre Thiar

Area

755,666 m² (75.57 ha, 186.73 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 East, Ballycarbery South, Killelan East, Kimego West, Mountluke

Placenames

Ballycarbery West 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.