Ballyduff
Townland in the civil parish of Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Baile Dubh
- Area
- 577 ha
- 1,426 acres
- Land parcels
- 122
- registered freehold, median 7,436 m² (0.74 ha, 1.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
122 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyduff, from 82 m² to 328,699 m² (32.87 ha, 81.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 58 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 May 2026Conditional
full planning permission (1) construct an extension to the front and rear of an existing dwelling house , and Retention Permission to (2) retain sunroom as constructed , (3) all associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660421
16 Sept 2025Conditional
Construction of a bungalow dwelling house, effluent treatment system, new site access & associated site works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560832
20 Aug 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to renovate and alter external elevations of an existing cottage, install a mechanical treatment unit, soil polishing filter as well as all associated works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560723
10 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING OF A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22606
30 Mar 2021Conditional
(A) PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE/ STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21325
19 Aug 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20731
28 Apr 2020Conditional
BUILD 4 NEW WEANER ROOMS AND ASSOCIATED SLURRY STORAGE ONTO EXISTING PIGGERY BUILDINGS TO GIVE MORE FLOOR SPACE AND INCREASE ANIMAL WELFARE FOR EXISTING NUMBERS LOCATED
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20384
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- KE031-004 Fulacht fia
Description
Fulacht Fia surveyed in 1986 by the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey and described as follows; 'Situated on the southern portion of the townland on a southeast facing slope in a field of very wet pasture. The mound is clear of vegetation. The monument consists of a mound of black burnt earth and burnt shattered red stone. From 83 degrees to 232 degrees an obvious horseshoe shape can be detected. From 232 degrees to 280 degrees the outline of the mound continues though there is no internal height. From 280 degrees to c. 44 degrees, the outline of the mound continues on a roughly circular manner, both internal and external external slopes can be easily traced. From 44 degrees c. 83 degrees though the external slope can be easily traced, there no internal slope. The greatest internal and external mound heights occur from 83 degrees to c. 180 degrees. The length of the mound = 9.6m from 180 degrees to 332 degrees. The width of the mound = 7.9m from 72 degrees to 252 degrees across the middle of the mound. The length of the horseshoe shaped portion of the mound = 6.7m while the width = 4.5m. An area of rush growth is concentrated in the southern portion of the mound. The mound is bordered by a field fence on the south and southeast. Burnt material is obvious in the field fence also'. See attached plan surveyed and drawn by the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 April 2022
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).
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 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyduff · An Baile Dubh
- Area
- 5,769,854 m² (576.99 ha, 1,425.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleisland, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Knocknagashel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knocknagashel electoral division: 733 people in 291 households; 82% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Knockbrack, Knockeencreen, Knocknagashel East, Lackbrooder, Meenbannivane, Meenleitrim North, Tooreenmore
- 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.