Ballymacjordan
Townland in the civil parish of Duagh, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Baile Mhic Shiurdáin
- Area
- 105.4 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 4,384 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacjordan, from 433 m² to 178,454 m² (17.85 ha, 44.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballymacjordan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jul 2026N/a
Outline Permission to erect a dwelling house with all associated site works and services including mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter.
Outline permission · Kerry County Council, 2660711
23 Feb 2021Conditional
BUILD EXTENSIONS AND TO CONVERT THE ATTIC OF THE HOUSE AND TO BUILD A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOICATED SITE WORKS AND THAT THE WORKS TO THE DWELLING ARE TO PROVIDE AN INDEPENDENT LIVING UNIT IN THE DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21171
19 Feb 2019Conditional
(A) ERECT AN EXTENSION TO SIDE OF (WEST) DWELLING HOUSE (B) ERECT A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19149
29 Sept 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, CONSERVATORY, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17972
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- KE018-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure appears on the 1841-42 OS map. Only a tiny section of the enclosing bank of the NW through N to NE survives on the 1915 OS map, and no surface trace remains 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. 662. 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 Ballymacjordan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3438 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballymacjordan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymacjordan · Baile Mhic Shiurdáin
- Area
- 1,054,152 m² (105.42 ha, 260.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Moynsha, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moynsha electoral division: 493 people in 183 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagraigue, Ballynamuddagh, Coolaneelig, Islandboy East, Moynsha, Port (Co. Limerick), Shanbally
- Placenames
- Ballymacjordan 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.