Ballyduff

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyduff, from 419 m² to 3,357,114 m² (335.71 ha, 829.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyduff 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.

• 4 Apr 2018Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH AN EXISTING TWO STOREY DERELICT DWELLING AND ATTACHED DERELICT SHEDS, (B) CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY STYLE REPLACEMENT DWELLING, (C) CONSTRUCT A SHED TO THE SOUTH OF THE PROPOSED DWELLING, (D) INSTALL A MECHANICAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM FOLLOWED BY A POLISHING FILTER, (E) RECONSTRUCT, WIDEN AND EXTEND THE EXISTING ENTRANCE AND (F) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ALL

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18304

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: Mount Brandon SAC 000375
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount Brandon 000375

Recorded monuments

• KE035-048 Enclosure
  Description

  The circular enclosure marked on the 1st edition of the OS map is shown as a circular mound on the 2nd edition. It survives as a slightly dished platform measuring 27.4m N-S and 22.8m E-W across its upper surface and a maximum of 1.2m in height. The edge of the mound is raised a maximum of .85m above the interior but is generally less and there is no clearly defined bank. There is no visible trace of the souterrain (KE035-048001-) marked on the 1st edition. The site lies near the foot of a N spur of Beenbo mountain, between the Glennahoo and Scorid rivers. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 620. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE035-048001 Souterrain
  Description

  Circular enclosure KE035-048---- marked on the 1st edition of the OS map is shown as a circular mound on the 2nd edition. There is no visible trace of the souterrain (KE035-048001-) marked on the 1st edition. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 620. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE035-064 Enclosure
  Description

  There are no visible remains of the circular enclosure marked on the OS maps. The circular, level platform which marked the site until recently was levelled in 1983. It was situated on a NW facing slope at the lower N end of the ridge which separates the Glennahoo and Scorid rivers. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 619. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE035-065001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  St. Nicholas's Well/Tobar Niocláis: This well is now dry. The water has been diverted to drain the field and it now issues about 100m downslope to N. A cross-inscribed stone which stood 9 feet (2.7m) W of the well (OSNB Ballyduff, 18) now lies loose on the surface. It is a small, thin slab measuring .55m x .37m x .06m thick. On one face is a simple incised Latin cross, with T-bar terminals to head and arms. St. Nicholas is the patron Saint of Ballyduff Parish and the site was visited by large numbers of people on his feast day, the 6th of December. The field in which it is located is known as Páirc an Turasa and 3 circuits of the whole field were made as part of the turas (Ó Danachair 1960, 71). Folklore collected from Ballyduff School about the Holy Well of St Nicholas and the cross-inscribed slab recorded the following tradition; 'The Holy Well of St.Nicholas is situated in the townland of Liscarney, parish of Ballyduff, Castlegregory ,on the slope of a hill overlooking Brandon Bay. The waters of the well itself have been drained into an adjoining field but the site of the well is marked by a shallow depression.Overlooking it is a flat stone with an incised cross of which I give a sketch. The stone is uniquely shaped and is placed on a small mound at a distance of about two yards from the well. The field where the well is situated measures about 120yds x 80 yds and is known as Páirc an Turusa. 'Rounds' were made round this field when the well was visited by those suffering from some eyes. There seems to have been no special days set apart for paying these rounds but the feast of St Nicholas was apparently a very popular day for making the pilgrimage. The rounds were made in the usual way. The pilgrim walked slowly round the field from right to left while he recited the Rosary. This he did three times. It was usual to apply the water of the well to the affected part. It was sometimes drunk but not taken away. When leaving the pilgrim left some small object near the well. Tradition says that on one occasion the well was profaned by a woman from the neighbourhood who took some of the water away to be used for household purposes. When she poured it into a kettle she noticed a little trout swimming in it. The water would not boil so she was obliged to take it back to the well and procure a fresh supply from another source' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0430, Pages 103-4;https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4687702/4685360). The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 918. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 May 2022

• KE035-065002 Cross-slab
  Description

  St. Nicholas's Well/Tobar Niocláis: This well is now dry. The water has been diverted to drain the field and it now issues about 100m downslope to N. A cross-inscribed stone which stood 9 feet (2.7m) W of the well (OSNB Ballyduff, 18) now lies loose on the surface. It is a small, thin slab measuring .55m x .37m x .06m thick. On one face is a simple incised Latin cross, with T-bar terminals to head and arms. St. Nicholas is the patron Saint of Ballyduff Parish and the site was visited by large numbers of people on his feast day, the 6th of December. The field in which it is located is known as Páirc an Turasa and 3 circuits of the whole field were made as part of the turas (Ó Danachair 1960, 71). Folklore collected from Ballyduff School about the Holy Well of St Nicholas (KE035-065001-) and the cross-inscribed slab recorded the following tradition; 'The Holy Well of St.Nicholas is situated in the townland of Liscarney, parish of Ballyduff, Castlegregory ,on the slope of a hill overlooking Brandon Bay. The waters of the well itself have been drained into an adjoining field but the site of the well is marked by a shallow depression. Overlooking it is a flat stone with an incised cross of which I give a sketch. The stone is uniquely shaped and is placed on a small mound at a distance of about two yards from the well' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0430, Page 103;https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4687702/4685360). See attached drawing of cross-slab taken from The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0430, Page 103 The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 918. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 May 2022

• KE035-066 Church
  Description

  Ballyduff Church: In 1615 the parsonage of 'Balliduff’, Sir Richard Boyle's gift, was 'waste and worth nothing' (Royal Visitation), but the church was included in a list of parochial churches in the diocese in 1622 (TCD Ms 2158, 94). Though remains of the building were extant in the graveyard here c. 1837 (Lewis, 133), no trace of any features remained in 1841 (OSL). The site lies on the N side of the peninsula, near Brandon Bay. In 2010 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details: 'Ballyduff Church and Graveyard is situated on the N side of the Dingle Peninsula and 10km west of the Castlegregory and 14.5km NE of Dingle. Ballyduff Church and Graveyard is a protected site, recorded in the Record of Monuments and Places (KE036-066----). A record from 1615 records that ‘Ballyduffe, psonadge is Sir R. Boyle’s gift, waste worth nothing’ (Hickson 1874, 29). An account of Ballyduff by Lewis in 1837 records ‘The living is an impropriate curacy, in the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe, the rectory being wholly impropriate in the Earl of Cork; the tithes amount to £55, payable to the impropriator, out of which £10 per annum is allowed for the discharge of the clerical duties. There are some ruins of the church in the ancient burial-ground, near which is a small glebe.’ (Lewis 1837, 133). John O’Donovan, writing in August 1841, records ‘No part of the old church of this parish now remains, but its graveyard is shown in the north end of the townland of Ballyduff’ (O’Donovan 1983, 111). The bare outline of the basal courses of part of the south and east wall of the church were discovered and recorded in the course of this survey for the first time. The S wall is 1.05m thick and extends from the SE corner W for 11.3m while another in situ stone of the S elevation still survives a further 4.7m away to the W. The E gable is also partially exposed for a distance of 7.3m and is 1.3m in thickness. Forty three architectural fragments were recorded. Many of which have been re-used in tomb construction while four fragments (268-271) were reused as a grave setting near the remains of the medieval church and the remainder used as headstones for lintelled and other graves. Some lie loose on the ground. Ten architectural fragments are visible in tomb 46 alone. A group of four (263 a, b, c, d) form part of the north side of the tomb, while three others (260, 261 & 262) are built into and beside the east gable of tomb 46. Three others are partially visible at the SW corner of the tomb. The medieval architectural fragments are all of local red sandstone, predominantly squared dressed building stones of which some are most likely quoins. Others are more difficult to assign to particular elements of the features of the church as not enough of them are visible in their current reused context within the fabric of the tombs. Possibly the most definitive and finely carved architectural fragments is the head of a very fine ogee window (251) reused as a gravemarker at the E side of the old burial ground in front of lintelled grave 469. The ogee window head dates from the 15th century. Another of the architectural fragments is a complete Holy Water stoup (254) reused as a burial marker on lintelled grave 457 within the E limits of the ruined medieval church. Preliminary examination suggests that it is of the projecting basin type and not intra-mural' (Dunne 2010, 1-10). See attached plan and photographs courtesy of Laurence Dunne. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 988. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 4 July 2022

• KE035-066001 Graveyard
  Description

  Ballyduff Church: In 1615 the parsonage of 'Balliduff’, Sir Richard Boyle's gift, was 'waste and worth nothing' (Royal Visitation), but the church was included in a list of parochial churches in the diocese in 1622 (TCD Ms 2158, 94). Though remains of the building were extant in the graveyard here c. 1837 (Lewis, 133), no trace of any features remained in 1841 (OSL). The site lies on the N side of the peninsula, near Brandon Bay. In 2010 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details: 'Ballyduff Church and Graveyard is situated on the N side of the Dingle Peninsula and 10km west of the Castlegregory and 14.5km NE of Dingle. Ballyduff Church and Graveyard is a protected site, recorded in the Record of Monuments and Places (KE036-066----). The graveyard at Ballyduff comprises an old medieval burial ground and a new modern section attached at the S. The new graveyard section was opened possibly in the early 1950’s as the two earliest graves recorded there date to 1953. The old medieval burial ground has no pathways and is in a very poor state of repair with virtually every one of the twenty-five tombs recorded there in a poor dilapidated state of repair. Many of the tombs are either collapsed or partially collapsed and all, bar two, lack any named memorial plaque. Furthermore, within the old burial ground there are a number of exposed lintelled graves, several of which are open and collapsed. The old graveyard is studded with one hundred and eight small unnamed gravemarkers, architectural fragments and loose stones throughout. The entrance comprises two modern black painted iron gates set between two square capped and rendered piers in very good order with a simple squeeze-stile immediately beside the right hand or E pier. The old medieval section of Ballyduff Graveyard is bounded by a low (0.8m - 1.0m) random rubble wall of local sandstone bedded in mortar and capped with ‘soldiers’ a NE-SW section of which now separates the old burial ground from the new. A step-stile provides able bodied access into the old burial ground. Otherwise access is gained through a ragged breach at the W end of the separating old boundary wall that is difficult and uneven underfoot. Several of the capping soldiers along the dividing boundary wall have also been robbed out. Only two named tombs, 32 and 55, were recorded of which one is only partially legible (32-Moynihan) while the other plaque simply reads O’Connor, Kilcummin Beg. Both tombs are of the strong-box type and are in poor state of preservation, particularly the Moynihan tomb (55) where many of its basal stones have been robbed out or fallen. Furthermore, examination of its fabric discovered a large dressed architectural fragment (291) from the medieval church of Ballyduff. Twenty-three unnamed tombs were recorded in various states of disrepair. The tombs are mainly house-shaped or upturned-boat style while a few are of the strong-box variety. There are 26 lintelled graves dispersed around the old burial ground partially exposed, open or collapsed. Many of them are marked with unhewn unnamed headstones, medieval architectural fragments and archaeological artefacts. There were eighty-nine named and legible headstones recorded at Ballyduff graveyard associated with formal grave settings. There were one hundred and eight unnamed headstones (HWN) in total recorded in the course of this survey. All of the unnamed headstones are simple grave markers of unhewn local sandstone and are disposed around the entirety of the old burial ground. Some of them mark a number of lintelled graves that are partially exposed on the surface especially around the south side of the ruined church. There is a marked concentration at the extreme N corner of the old burial graveyard that may reflect a famine burial area. Forty three architectural fragments were recorded. Many of which have been re-used in tomb construction while four fragments (268-271) were reused as a grave setting near the remains of the medieval church and the remainder used as headstones for lintelled and other graves. Some lie loose on the ground. Ten architectural fragments are visible in tomb 46 alone. A group of four (263 a, b, c, d) form part of the north side of the tomb, while three others (260, 261 & 262) are built into and beside the east gable of tomb 46. Three others are partially visible at the SW corner of the tomb. The medieval architectural fragments are all of local red sandstone, predominantly squared dressed building stones of which some are most likely quoins. Others are more difficult to assign to particular elements of the features of the church as not enough of them are visible in their current reused context within the fabric of the tombs. Possibly the most definitive and finely carved architectural fragments is the head of a very fine ogee window (251) reused as a gravemarker at the E side of the old burial ground in front of lintelled grave 469. The ogee window head dates from the 15th century. Another of the architectural fragments is a complete Holy Water stoup (254) reused as a burial marker on lintelled grave 457 within the E limits of the ruined medieval church. Preliminary examination suggests that it is of the projecting basin type and not intra-mural' (Dunne 2010, 1-10). See attached plan and photographs courtesy of Laurence Dunne. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 988. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 4 July 2022

• KE035-067 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 23m. A bivallate rath with traces of 2 hut sites in the interior. It is situated on an E facing slope overlooking the valley of the Glennahoo river and also commands good open views N and NE towards Brandon Bay. The NE and E sectors of the enclosure have been levelled and are partly obscured by loose stones and by a disused field fence. Elsewhere the interior is surrounded by an earthen bank and fosse with slight traces of a 2nd outer bank. The inner bank is a maximum of .3m high internally and ranges from 1 to 2m in height above the base of the fosse. The latter is 3.4m wide. The outer bank is present to NW only. It is c. 0.5m high externally and falls .45m to the base of the fosse which is at its shallowest in this sector. The outer face of the inner bank is revetted with drystone masonry for a length of at least 15m at S. The facing survives to a height of .6m and is not evident elsewhere along the banks. In the NW sector of the interior are the very disturbed remains of what appear to be 2 conjoined huts. They are represented by a roughly circular (N hut) and a rectangular (S hut) depression, .8m deep. The former measures 4.6m x 3.9m internally and the latter a maximum of 4.6m internally. A possible entrance between the 2 huts measures .9m in width. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 320. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

• KE035-067001 Hut site
  Description

  Bivallate rath KE035-067---- with traces of 2 hut sites in the interior. In the NW sector of the interior are the very disturbed remains of what appear to be 2 conjoined huts. They are represented by a roughly circular (N hut KE035-067001-) and a rectangular (S hut KE035-067002-) depression, .8m deep. The former measures 4.6m x 3.9m internally and the latter a maximum of 4.6m internally. A possible entrance between the 2 huts measures .9m in width. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 320. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

• KE035-067002 Hut site
  Description

  Bivallate rath KE035-067---- with traces of 2 hut sites in the interior. In the NW sector of the interior are the very disturbed remains of what appear to be 2 conjoined huts. They are represented by a roughly circular (N hut KE035-067001-) and a rectangular (S hut KE035-067002-) depression, .8m deep. The former measures 4.6m x 3.9m internally and the latter a maximum of 4.6m internally. A possible entrance between the 2 huts measures .9m in width. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 320. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Ballyduff.

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

Name

Ballyduff · An Baile Dubh

Area

4,157,685 m² (415.77 ha, 1,027.39 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyduff, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Ballyduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyduff electoral division: 136 people in 55 households; 84% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 28% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balliniry, Ballyhoneen, Ballynasare-Mountain, Banoge North, Coumduff, Glennahoo, Knocknagower, Liscarney, Maghanaboe, Maumagarrane

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballyduff 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.