Ballygamboon Upper

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygamboon Upper, from 96 m² to 434,079 m² (43.41 ha, 107.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballygamboon Upper 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 Jul 2026Conditional

  Retain (A) infill entrance lobby and external porch to front of dwelling house; (B) Retain additional floor area as constructed to sunroom at south eastern side of dwelling with associated elevational changes; (C) Retain Extension projection to First Floor Bathroom as constructed to rear of dwelling house; (D) Retain dormer window elevational changes to front and gable windows to south eastern and north western elevations of dwelling; and Permission to decommission the existing septic tank and to install a mechanical treatment system and raised polishing filter all with associated works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 26114

• 4 Sept 2024Conditional

  1. Demolish existing derelict house and decommission existing septic tank, 2. Permission to construct a dwelling house, effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460658

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: Slieve Mish Mountains SAC 002185

Recorded monuments

• KE038-030 Enclosure
  Description

  See field inspection report (diary NF6, 88-93) (SMR file). This possible enclosure is crossed by a road. The portion of the enclosure on the N side of the road appears to be totally removed. It was not possible to inspect the portion on the S side. Pending more definite evidence, the classification for this record has been changed to 'possible enclosure'.

• KE047-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE047-013001 Standing stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• KE047-013002 Rock art
  Description

  In pasture (30m OD), on a SW-facing slope, within interior of ringfort (KE047-013----); Frequent growth of wild Iris within interior. No visible surface trace. An ITA Survey (1942) briefly describes the ringfort and states, ‘in the centre lies a large stone bearing ring markings’. Relatively small earthfast boulder in bank at SE, however no rock art is obvious. The rock art site may have sunken into ground and become covered with earthen and organic debris over time. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 6 July 2017

• KE047-014 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_130 (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.

No address of the register names Ballygamboon Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballygamboon Upper · Baile an Ghambúnaigh Uachtarach

Area

4,332,155 m² (433.22 ha, 1,070.5 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltallagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Kiltallagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltallagh electoral division: 558 people in 221 households; 88% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyraymeen Upper, Caherleheen, Clahane, Killeagh, Knockbrack, Lisnanoul, Poulawaddra, Tonreagh

Placenames

Ballygamboon Upper 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.