Ballymacdonnell

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacdonnell, from 462 m² to 313,902 m² (31.39 ha, 77.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Ballymacdonnell 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballymacdonnell in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballymacdonnell.

Recorded monuments

• KE039-126 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The location of this monument was incorrectly marked on the RMP for Co. Kerry (issued 1998). The correct location was identified by Laurence Dunne (pers. comm. 16 February 2015). The monument is situated in pasture that slopes gently to the E. It consists of the much degraded remains of a ringfort (external dims. 43m E-W by 41m N-S; internal dims. 26m E-W by 21m N-S) which are visible as a grass-covered earthen and stone bank reaching a max. height of 0.5m at the E or downslope side. There is no evidence of an external fosse. A number of bumps, hollows and other undulations most likely reflect the incomplete clearance of the monument sometime shortly before 1945 when an account of a visit was included in the minute book of the County Kerry Field Club for that year (Vol. 1, 31st March 1945, pp. 580-2). The report makes reference to four chambers which could be interpreted as either hut-sites or a souterrain or both (KE039-126001-). Given that the limestone bedrock is close to the surface the possibility that the monument might have been a cashel cannot be discounted. (Dunne 2015) The attached image (KE039-126----_01.jpg), a view of the remains from the west, was taken on 6 February 2015, and is uploaded courtesy of Laurence Dunne. Compiled by: Paul Walsh based on details kindly provided by Laurence Dunne (16 February 2015) Date of upload: 17 February 2015

• KE039-126001 Souterrain
  Description

  In 1986 local information indicated the site of a possible 'fort' at the following grid reference: ITM 496403, 607055. This location, included on the Record of Monuments and Places (issued 1997), was incorrect and the remains monument are c. 140m to the S (KE039-126----). The minutes of the County Kerry Field Club record an account of their visit (Minute Book, vol. 1, 31st March 1945, pp. 580-2): 'This consists of a circular chamber 6' [feet] in diameter & 6' [feet] high with three short passages leading off from it. Access is gained by a short crawl passage. There were originally 3 similar chambers in this fort but two have been demolished in clearance by the farmer, who informed the party that he found several boars tusks in the earth when making the clearance.' Attached to the report is a site note with an annotated sketch signed by J. McDonnell who inspected the site. The note reads: 'Hut site at Ballymacdonnell in Mr James Scanlon's land'. Underneath this text there is an annotated sketch of the site denoting 'a 6' [feet] high and 6' [feet] diameter circular hut site with a passage entrance identified at the south. There appears to be three niches or chambers extending from the hut site, more or less at the other cardinal points.' It is unclear as to whether a hut-site or souterrain was described in the above account. (Dunne 2015) Compiled by: Paul Walsh based on details kindly provided by Laurence Dunne, 16 February 2015. Date of upload: 17 February 2015

• KE039-131 Fulacht fia
  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.

• KE039-133 Fulacht fia
  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 Ballymacdonnell.

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 Ballymacdonnell, 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_205 (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 Ballymacdonnell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballymacdonnell · Baile Mhic Dhónaill

Area

720,832 m² (72.08 ha, 178.12 acres)

Civil parish

Killeentierna, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Kilfelim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

236 people lived in 87 households in the Kilfelim electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cliddaun, Cloonacurrig, Coolnacalliagh, Kilfelim, Loughnagore

Placenames

Ballymacdonnell 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.