Ballyfinnane

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfinnane, from 29 m² to 358,727 m² (35.87 ha, 88.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyfinnane 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.

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY STYLE DWELLING AND CARPORT SERVICED BY A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21233

• 18 Jun 2020Conditional

  RETAIN (A) EXISTING SINGLE STOREY MACHINERY STORAGE BUILDING (229M2) USED FOR STORING LANDSCAPING MACHINERY, (B) ACCESS ROADWAY, (C) ENTRANCE AND (D) ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20528

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE SERVICED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO FORM VEHICLE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171302

• 22 Nov 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCT A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORE SERVICED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND SOIL POLISHING PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 171164

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE ON SITE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES( (B) RETAIN ELEVATION CHANGES TO DWELLING ) (C) RETAIN PORCH EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE DWELLING (D) RETAIN GARAGE AS BUILT (E) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (F) INSTALL A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17642

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 Ballyfinnane.

Recorded monuments

• KE047-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On level ground, at the centre of the Tralee-Farranfore/Castleisland-Castlemaine crossroads. A rath, known as 'Daly's Fort', and a possible souterrain (KE047-017001-) were recorded here by Capt. D. B. O'Connell in the 1930s (SMR file). This rath is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE047-017001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE047-017----). In the 1930s a possible souterrain in the rath was recorded by Capt. D. B. O'Connell (SMR file). There are no visible remains of this possible souterrain. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE047-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough wet pasture, on the N side of the Maine River. The rath is not visible at ground level and the area is covered in a thick growth of rushes. An oval area (c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W), defined by three upstanding banks with intervening fosses and an outer fosse, is visible in an aerial photograph (HSAP, 8903-2) taken in June 1962. The outer bank and fosse are visible only along the N and E arcs. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyfinnane, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_162 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballyfinnane · Béal Átha Fionnáin

Area

2,060,600 m² (206.06 ha, 509.19 acres)

Civil parish

Molahiffe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Kilnanare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,052 people lived in 362 households in the Kilnanare electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Breanshagh, Cloonmealane, Connigar, Coolclieve, Curraghmore West, Dromreag, Garraun, Knockbrack

Placenames

Ballyfinnane 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.