Ballymacaquim West

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacaquim West, from 19 m² to 314,008 m² (31.4 ha, 77.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Ballymacaquim West 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.

• 6 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission to build a private shed/workshop

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460865

• 14 Aug 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE TOGETHER WITH A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18799

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 Ballymacaquim West.

Recorded monuments

• KE021-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1898 OS map as a circular enclosure, a fieldbank travelling in a NE-SW direction appears to cut this site in two. No surface trace survives 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. 1084. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymacaquim West · Baile Mhic an Chaim Thiar

Area

777,476 m² (77.75 ha, 192.12 acres)

Civil parish

Killahan, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Killahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killahan electoral division: 395 people in 146 households; 89% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacaquim East, Fortwilliam, Parknageragh

Placenames

Ballymacaquim West 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.