# Ballymacadam, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Baile Mhic Adáim. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 698,300 m² (69.83 ha, 172.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,986 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castleisland, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/castleisland.md - Barony: Trughanacmy - Electoral division: Castleisland, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24453 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70281 - Centre: latitude 52.237657, longitude -9.419718 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacadam, from 317 m² to 345,369 m² (34.54 ha, 85.34 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1188523: 345,369 m² (34.54 ha, 85.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1188523.md - Parcel 1202425: 284,538 m² (28.45 ha, 70.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1202425.md - Parcel 1240641: 19,299 m² (1.93 ha, 4.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240641.md - Parcel 1210792: 17,859 m² (1.79 ha, 4.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210792.md - Parcel 1224825: 4,482 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1224825.md - Parcel 1237283: 4,025 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237283.md - Parcel 1223140: 3,199 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223140.md - Parcel 5801198: 2,889 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5801198.md - Parcel 2650455: 2,840 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2650455.md - Parcel 1147956: 2,506 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1147956.md - Parcel 1151844: 1,465 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151844.md - Parcel 1233130: 1,388 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233130.md - Parcel 1211402: 1,355 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1211402.md - Parcel 1229662: 1,334 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229662.md - Parcel 1197570: 1,324 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197570.md - Parcel 1226221: 1,167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1226221.md - Parcel 1186834: 1,162 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1186834.md - Parcel 1160200: 1,144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1160200.md - Parcel 1212992: 638 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1212992.md - Parcel 1244616: 317 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244616.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 15 Feb 2026, Kerry County Council 2660104: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660104/0 - 14 Mar 2018, Kerry County Council 18242: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/18242/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymacadam. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE040-018: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE040-018----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE040-033001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE040-033002-. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymacadam. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_278.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballymacadam.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballymacadam.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballymacadam.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymacadam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Craggaunoonia: https://everytownland.com/kerry/craggaunoonia.md - Kilbannivane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilbannivane.md - Kilcusnaun: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilcusnaun.md - Tobermaing: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tobermaing.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballymacadam - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/ballymacadam