Ballycullane
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 185 ha
- 457 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 4,576 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycullane, from 177 m² to 321,111 m² (32.11 ha, 79.35 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballycullane 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 May 2026Conditional
(A) retain existing dwelling house and domestic garage / store as constructed within revised site boundaries, (B) permission to decommission the existing septic tank and install a new mechanical aeration unit and peat polishing filter
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660438
14 May 2025Conditional
Retention permission to retain dwelling house, domestic garage, mechanical aeration unit and sand polishing filter within revised site boundaries at Ballycullane, Rathmore, Co Kerry
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560405
23 Jul 2024Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by septic tank and percolation area at Ballycullane, Rathmore, Co Kerry
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460487
5 Oct 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT, INTERMITTENT PEAT MODULES AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221049
5 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21479
10 May 2017Refused
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17428
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycullane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycullane.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycullane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballycullane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycullane
- Area
- 1,850,272 m² (185.03 ha, 457.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcummin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Rathmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmore electoral division: 1,941 people in 735 households; 67% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coom, Glangristeen, Gortanahaneboy East, Gortnaprocess, Knockacappul, Rath Beg, Rath More, Scrahanagullaun
- Placenames
- Ballycullane 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.