Ballymacadam

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacadam, from 317 m² to 345,369 m² (34.54 ha, 85.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ballymacadam 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.

• 15 Feb 2026Conditional

  Permission to (A): renovate the existing single-storey dwelling which will entail the construction of a patio door and corner window unit on the east elevation together with other minor alterations as documented on the drawings, the 1970’s stone finish on the front elevation is to be removed and replaced with a plain plaster finish, the flat roof on the rear extension is to be replaced with a pitched type roof, the existing roadside access is to be moved further towards the east and (B)RETENTION PERMISSION is sought to retain a 66m2 domestic shed

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660104

• 14 Mar 2018Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE (C) DECOMMISSION EXSITING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING OF A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18242

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 Ballymacadam.

Recorded monuments

• KE040-018 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.

• KE040-033001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Ballymacadam Castle described in 1841 as follows; 'the ruins of a square castle [ext. dims. c. 7.6m N-S x 6.8m]; it measures on the inside fifteen feet nine inches [4.8m] from east to west and thirteen feet two inches [4m] from north to south. A spiral staircase led to the top at the south-east angle, but it is now entirely destroyed. The second and fourth floors are rested on stone arches of which but very small fragments remains. The walls are four feet nine inches [1.4m] in thickness. Its east side is down to the very foundations, as is also the greater part of the north wall. All the windows are disfigured except one narrow rectangular one on the south wall which lighted the first floor and one on the west wall which lighted the fourth one' (O'Donovan 1983, 76). A number of architectural fragments of the castle site have been incorporated into a house to the S of the quarry indicated on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 (Purcell 2006). According to Purcell (2006) quarrying in the past has truncated the site of Ballymacadam Castle and its earthwork by up to 10 metres. The quarry face at the site of this monument is now scrub covered indicating that the quarry wasn't recent. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 May 2022

• KE040-033002 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 Ballymacadam.

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 Ballymacadam, 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_278 (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 Ballymacadam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballymacadam · Baile Mhic Adáim

Area

698,300 m² (69.83 ha, 172.55 acres)

Civil parish

Castleisland, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Castleisland, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,392 people lived in 1,351 households in the Castleisland electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Craggaunoonia, Kilbannivane, Kilcusnaun, Tobermaing

Placenames

Ballymacadam 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.