Ballykealy

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykealy, from 2,045 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres) to 211,957 m² (21.2 ha, 52.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Ballykealy 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.

• 29 May 2024Conditional

  TO RETAIN (A) A PORCH TO THE FRONT OF MY DWELLING HOUSE AND, (B) AN EXISTING SHED/HOBBY ROOM TO THE REAR OF MY DWELLING HOUSE (C) AN EXSISTING CORRUGATED SHED TO THE REAR OF MY DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24218

• 20 Nov 2023Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING ATTIC DEVELOPMENT AND VELUX WINDOWS, (B) RETAIN EXISTING GRANNY FLAT EXTENSION AND GARDEN SHED TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (C) RETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231124

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 Ballykealy.

Recorded monuments

• KE014-080 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Ballykealy Castle (site of). This was an ancient castle of the Fitzmaurices and gave the title of baron to a younger branch of the family. In 1841 O'Donovan stated that the castle measured 21 feet 6 inches (6.5m) E-W on the outside, and the N wall rose to a height of about 16 feet (4.8m). The walls were over 7 feet (2.1m) thick and were built of limestone with lime and sand mortar and were well grouted. The castle is mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters (1577) where it states that 'On this occasion Mac Maurice was permitted by O'Donnell to take with him a portion of the army to see and visit Clanmaurice. As they passed along through the territory they found some of its castles in danger not well guarded and took them.' No surface trace of this castle can be seen today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1006. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

• KE014-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated SE of Ballykealy Castle (KE014-080----), this circular enclosure is marked on the 1842 and 1916 OS maps. However, today this site has been levelled, except for a small section of the S sector which has been incorporated into a fieldbank running E-W. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 453. 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 Ballykealy.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballykealy.

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

Name

Ballykealy · Baile Uí Chaolaí

Area

711,969 m² (71.2 ha, 175.93 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoyly, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ballynorig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynorig electoral division: 549 people in 196 households; 92% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnmore, Kilmoyly North, Kilmoyly South, Toanreagh, Togherbane

Placenames

Ballykealy 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.