Ballyduhig
Townland in the civil parish of Kilshenane, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Baile Uí Dhuthaigh
- Area
- 209.5 ha
- 518 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 4,320 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyduhig, from 47 m² to 667,615 m² (66.76 ha, 164.97 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 Ballyduhig 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
29 May 2024Conditional
(1) PLANNING PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (2) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING AND DETACHED DOMESTIC SHED AS BUILT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24213
3 Oct 2023Conditional
Retention Permission To Retain (1) Domestic shed consisting of a workshop, domestic storage area and turf shed storage area. (2) Dining foom area to the rear of his dwellinghouse and associated site works 2 no. Buildings , height of shed 3.750 m , height of dining extension 2.512m
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360208
8 Jun 2023Conditional
DEMOLISH A MACHINERY HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT A CALF HOUSE ON PART OF THE SAME FOOTPRINT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Permission · Kerry County Council, 23660
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyduhig.
Recorded monuments
- KE016-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
This large circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914-15 OS maps and it also shows up on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1974) as a possible crop mark. However, permission to inspect the site was refused. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 602. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE016-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 34m N-S This univallate rath is extremely overgrown. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a c 3m wide bank, which rises to .5m-1m high externally and to .3m high internally. The enclosing fosse is on average 5m wide and .5m-1m deep. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 604. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE016-009 Enclosure
Description
Marked on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure, only a small section appears on the 1916 map. Today this enclosure has been much levelled. An enclosing bank can only be traced from the N to W where it is c 8m wide and .6m high. From the W to S only a slight rise of .4m above the surrounding land can be noticed. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1064. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013
- KE016-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 38.4m N-S, 44.4m E-W Situated on sloping pastureland, this site has an excellent view in all directions. This univallate rath has been much levelled and survives today as a sub-circular raised area c .5m high. Slight traces of an exterior fosse can be noted N to E and to the SW, ranging 1.5m-4m wide and .4m deep. A track cuts through this site along the W sector in a NW-SE direction. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 603. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyduhig.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_202 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballyduhig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyduhig · Baile Uí Dhuthaigh
- Area
- 2,095,411 m² (209.54 ha, 517.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilshenane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Rathea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathea electoral division: 423 people in 166 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Beheens West, Billeragh, Coolnaleen Upper, Dromclogh, Furhane, Toornageehy
- Placenames
- Ballyduhig 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.