Ballyconnell

127 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyconnell, from 6 m² to 167,450 m² (16.74 ha, 41.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Reserve, White Land (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 26 Sept 2025N/a

  REDIII: The development will consist of: a 10-year permission for the development of a solar farm on an overall site of c. 152.6 hectares consisting of the following: c. 449,366 sq m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 19 no. hardstanding locations for electrical skids; new internal access tracks with passing bays; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the L-6507, R557, and L-2034 public roads, 3no. Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) locations associated with the underground cable route; a total of 5 no. solar farm site entrances (1no. from the R557 public road, 3no. from the L-6507 public road and 1no. from the L-10562 public road); access gates; 5no. temporary site compounds of c. 4,050 sq m each to be used for storage during construction activity; 28no. Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Containers and 7no. associated MV Stations as well as associated CCTV, BESS compound fencing, gate, boundary fencing and all associated ancillary drainage development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560875

• 19 Jun 2025Conditional

  Construct 2 no. detached 2 storey dwellings which will be served by connection to the public sewer and all necessary ancillary site works.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560528

• 11 Dec 2023Conditional

  Full planning permission to construct 12 no. dwelling houses consisting of 6 blocks of three bedroom semi detached houses, connect to existing proprietary wastewater treatment system / public sewer and all associated site works and services. Height-8.601m

  Permission, 12 homes · Kerry County Council, 2360400

• 24 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING, FRONT BOUNDARY ENTRANCE WALLS, A DEEACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21695

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWER INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20622

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWER INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKIS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20625

• 7 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, SERVED BY A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191034

• 6 Jun 2018Refused

  RETAIN EXISTING BOUNDARY WALLS AND FRONT GATES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18546

• 6 Apr 2017Conditional

  ERECT A NEW BUNGALOW WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT, COMPLETE WITH A NEW CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER AND A NEW ENTRANCE ON TO PUBLIC ROAD

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17305

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 Ballyconnell.

Recorded monuments

• KE021-057 Souterrain
  Description

  According to the landowner a souterrain system was uncovered several years ago. It lies W of a univallate rath (727). The souterrains have been closed up and no visible trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1131. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE021-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This univallate rath is situated in the corner of a pastoral field. The site has been much levelled and disfigured: a road running E-W cuts the rath on its N sector, and N through W to S the enclosing bank has apparently been incorporated into a fieldbank. On the E side, the enclosing earthen bank is 8m wide at the base; it rises to 1.1m above the interior and 2m above the surrounding land. On the 1841-42 OS map 'cave' is marked on the interior, though no surface trace survives today. According to the landowner, a souterrain (KE021-058001-) was uncovered a few years ago while ploughing in the field immediately W of this site but was later filled in. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 727. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-058001 Souterrain
  Description

  Univallate rath KE021-058---- is situated in the corner of a pastoral field. The site has been much levelled and disfigured. On the 1841-42 OS map 'cave' is marked on the interior, though no surface trace survives today. According to the landowner, a souterrain (KE021-058001-) was uncovered a few years ago while ploughing in the field immediately W of this site but was later filled in. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 727. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated to the SE of KE021-058---- this site is marked on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps. No surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 728. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 16.5m N-S, 16m E-W A small univallate ringfort, it consists of a circular area enclosed by a low, wide earth and stone bank. It is situated in the corner of a field, and the N through W to S sectors of the enclosing bank have been incorporated into a fieldbank. The enclosing bank is 7m wide at the base; it rises to 1m above the interior and 1.6m above the external ground level. A 2m wide gap exists to the E and provides access to the interior. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 729. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Gortalooa Fort/Gort an Luaidhe (field of the lead) is situated three fields NE of KE021-062---- & KE021-063----. This circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps. No surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 732. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This site is marked on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps. On the later edition it has been cut in half by a fieldbank running N-S. No surface trace of this site survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 730. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This circular enclosure is situated SE of KE021-062---- in the same field. It is marked on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps. The S sector has been cut slightly by a fieldbank running E-W. No surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 731. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE021-142 Church
  Description

  Described by Toal (1995, no. 964) as follows; 'According to John O'Donovan (1841), the site of an old church was occupied by a modern Protestant one. Nothing is known about St Flann, after whom the church was named, nor is his feast day remembered. No surface trace of this old church can be seen today. The later church is being restored. See also Dooncaha (KE003-037----), Killarida (KE010-047001-), Ardfert Cathedral (KE020-046002-), Listowel (KE010-061----), Lerrig North (KE020-019----), Killeacle (KE020-020001-), Kilgulbin East (KE021-051----), Ballynageragh (KE015-084----), Feeans (KE014-013----)'. In 2012 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details: 'Kilflynn church and graveyard is situated on sloping ground in the centre of the village of Kilflynn. The name Kilflynn-Cill Floinn translates as ‘the church of Saint Flann’ or ‘Floinn’, an early Irish saint of whom there is very little known (O’Donovan 1841, 36). A Holy Well, Toberflyn (KE022-023----), dedicated to the saint is situated circa 0.7km, to the northeast in the townland of Cloonnafinnela. St. Flann is said to have bestowed on the well the power to cure blindness. Ó Danachair records that Toberflyn, Ó Danachair states that the well is visited on the May Eve and is said to have curative powers for sore eyes. Formerly, rags were left as offerings. Some stones nearby are said to be the ruins of St. Flann’s hermitage. The legend recounts that when St. Flann became blind in his old age he did not ask for a cure for himself but gave to the well the power of curing blindness (Ó Danachair 1958,158). Given the early seventh century date for the saint, it is possible that there may have been an early medieval ecclesiastic enclosure in Kilflynn for which no relict remains survive. The sub-rectangular graveyard of Kilflynn today is small neat and tidy albeit the southwestern corner and southern boundary limits are very overgrown bumpy and unmanaged. In the high medieval period the church was recorded for taxation purposes...Killaquyn church, in Offlannan deanery, in 1302, was called at 13s. 4d for tithes (King 1986, 191). However, Hickson is of the opinion that Killaquyn was a Hospitaller church and possibly refers to Ballymaquin near Causeway (Hickson 1883, 302). Charles Smith (1756, 39) recorded the church as upstanding and in use in 1756…’Kilflin, vicarial, the church in ruins. Patron: The Earl of Orrery’. The upstanding church today is protestant church which was built in 1811 with a later addition of a bell tower added in 1840. It is surrounded by a graveyard occupied by both Catholic and Protestant burials. St. Columba’s church was restored between 1990-1993 and is now used as a community hall. The building is in good order with forward rib pointing'. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 13 June 2022

• KE021-142001 Graveyard
  Description

  In 2012 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details: 'Kilflynn church and graveyard is situated on sloping ground in the centre of the village of Kilflynn. The name Kilflynn-Cill Floinn translates as ‘the church of Saint Flann’ or ‘Floinn’, an early Irish saint of whom there is very little known (O’Donovan 1841, 36). Given the early seventh century date for the saint, it is possible that there may have been an early medieval ecclesiastic enclosure in Kilflynn for which no relict remains survive. The sub-rectangular graveyard of Kilflynn today is small neat and tidy albeit the southwestern corner and southern boundary limits are very overgrown bumpy and unmanaged. The upstanding church today is protestant church which was built in 1811 with a later addition of a bell tower added in 1840. It is surrounded by a graveyard occupied by both Catholic and Protestant burials. St. Columba’s church was restored between 1990-1993 and is now used as a community hall. The building is in good order with forward rib pointing. The main entrance into the modern graveyard is via a pair of iron gates between two robust square limestone piers, capped and in good order. The gates are set within a rounded recessed entranceway that provides very limited vehicular access directly beside the church. A mixed concrete block and rubble stone wall and flat capping extends north from the entrance and returns west. The wall is very low comprising of only two courses in places and has a pedestrian gapped entrance on the rounded corner. The south boundary wall is constructed with local rubble limestone and is covered in ivy and mature trees. The west boundary comprises a 1.4m high rubble stone capped wall in good condition. Apart from some ivy on the older rubble stone wall there are no breaches and are in general good order. There are twenty-three, (23), tombs within the old medieval graveyard disposed around outside the south and south-western limits of the graveyard with only the Parkinson family tomb (TB7) situated on the north of the church. The tombs are, for the most part, of the ‘strong-box’ and gabled style. Two are ashlar or partially ashlar while the remainder are constructed with rubble stone and rendered or partially rendered. There are 106 recorded named headstones in total at Kilflynn. The earliest headstone recorded in the medieval burial ground (HS 106) records the death of Phillip Carrell who died in 1735. There is only one horizontal rectangular graveslab in Kilflynn graveyard and is illegible. There are eight unhewn gravemarkers in Kilflynn graveyard. Five of which are located to the south of the church where the ground is more irregular and the grass higher. There is a single perforated or holed stone in the western limits of Kilflynn graveyard at the rear of the church'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 June 2022

Architectural heritage

• Kilflyn Church, church/chapel, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay double-height former Church of Ireland church, built c. 1810, with single-bay two-stage truncated entrance tower to south-west gable end having bellcote over gable, and single-bay single-storey lean-to vestry projection to south. Renovated with openings partly remodelled to accommodate use as heritage centre. Pitched slate roof with bellcote to west gable and pedestal to east gable. Coursed rubble stone walls with limestone ashlar quoins and high-relief cement pointing. Pointed arch openings with ashlar voussoirs, limestone sills and render reveals. South-east window divided to form doorway. Replacement timber windows and doors. Concrete access ramps. Graveyard to site with various cut-stone grave markers and mausolea, c. 1810-present. Gateway, built c. 1810, to east comprising pair of cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates. Boundary wall largely rebuilt in concrete block work.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyconnell, about 1 in 10 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, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Ballyconnell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballyconnell · Baile Uí Chonaill

Area

1,456,251 m² (145.63 ha, 359.85 acres)

Civil parish

Kilflyn, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Kilfeighny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

993 people lived in 372 households in the Kilfeighny electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aulaneduff, Castletown, Drommakee, Fahavane, Farran, Knocknacaska, Lissireen

Placenames

Ballyconnell 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.