Ballymalis

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymalis, from 28 m² to 215,869 m² (21.59 ha, 53.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 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 Ballymalis 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.

• 10 Jul 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct dwelling served by waste water treatment system and all associated site works as previously granted under planning reg no 20/856

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560596

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING HOUSE C/W NEW SEPTIC TANK AND SECONDARY TREATMENT "PURAFLOW" PEAT FILTERS OVER A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24449

• 19 Dec 2022Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH OPEN AGRICULTURAL BARN STRUCTURE, (B) CONSTRUCT AN ADDITIONAL PITCH FOR TRAINING, (C) CONSTRUCT CLUBHOUSE WITH PARKING FACILITIES, (D) PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER, (E) PERMISSION TO INSTALL NEW WALKWAY AROUND THE PITCHES AND PROVIDE NEW FLOODLIGHTS AND PEDESTRIAN LIGHTING, (F) PERMISSION TO ERECT NETTING NEAR GOALPOSTS ON PITCH, (G) CONSTRUCT NEW CAR PARKING, (H) ADD PEDESTRIAN GATE TO EXISTING ENTRANCE GATE AND ERECT SIGNAGE. RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION TO (A) RETAIN THE DEVELOPMENT AS COMPLETED TO DATE, MORE PARTICULARLY RETAIN EXISTING MAIN PITCH, TRAINING AREA INCLUDING 4 NO. FLOODLIGHTS, (B) RETAIN 2 NO. DERELICT STONE BUILDINGS ON SITE, (C) RETAIN EXISTING 8 NO. PORTA CABINS CURRENTLY BEING USED AS DRESSING ROOMS, TOILETS, SHOWERS AND STORAGE AREAS WHICH ARE SERVED BY EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (THESE PORTA CABINS WILL BE REMOVED OFF SITE WHEN THE CLUBHOUSE HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 221316

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (B) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING SHED/STORE TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21231

• 21 Sept 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING SERVED BY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20856

• 20 Apr 2020Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT A NEW ROOF OVER EXISTING MILKING COMPLEX AND COLLECTING YARD, (B) CONSTRUCT AN UNDERGROUND SOILED WATER TANK

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 20359

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE057-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on level ground, c. 15m to the SE of the mill race of the Kerry Woollen Mills. This rath is indicated on the 1895 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). According to local information, it was levelled 'decades ago'. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE057-076001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  National Monument No. 364. In level pasture, on the N bank of the Laune River, adjacent to a fording point across the river. A four-storey rectangular tower (14.8m E-W; 9.8m N-S) standing to full height but missing its battlements. Extensive repairs were carried out in the 1940s by the OPW, especially at the corners which were badly undermined (see photograph in Barrington 1976, 59). Built of uncoursed limestone in a lime mortar, the external wall faces retain much of the original harling. The tower is entered through a central ground-floor doorway in the E wall. The cut-limestone door-surround has a pointed arch and a chamfered edge. The frame is recessed to take a yett whose chain hole is through the N jamb. A stile has recently been set into the doorway. Both the lobby inside and the porter's room on its N side have been largely rebuilt by the OPW. A doorway on the S side of the lobby gives access via a short lintelled passage to the main ground-floor chamber and to the base of the spiral stairs which rises in the SE corner of the tower. The ground-floor chamber (8.2m E-W; 5.9m N-S) is lit by opposite windows in the centre of the N and S walls. The S window has a single round-headed light and a splayed and lintelled embrasure; the N window is badly damaged but appears similar. The lower part of the spiral stone stairs is rebuilt by the OPW but is original from the first-floor upwards; it spirals clockwise. The main first-floor chamber is entered from the stairs via a door with a pointed arch. Three windows light the room: one in the centre of the N and S walls and the third near the N end of the W wall. The S window has a single flat-headed light. The embrasure is splayed directly behind the light and then widens on the inside to a larger square-set space. Both sections are lintelled. The N and W windows were probably similar but both are rebuilt by the OPW as is the fireplace in the centre of the W wall. Also at first-floor level is a mural chamber in the W wall, directly above the entrance lobby. This chamber is entered directly from the spiral stairs. It was covered by a wicker-centred segmental vault, now almost entirely gone. A single window in the E wall, with a single flat-headed light, lights the room. The main second-floor chamber is entered from the spiral stairs through a door with a pointed arch. As on the floor below there is a single window in the S, N and W walls, all three similar in design to those below. There is a fireplace in the N wall which has a large lintel across its opening. A door in the W wall gives access to a mural chamber similar to the one directly below except its covering vault is intact. In both the NE and SW corners of the main chamber is a door, with a pointed arch, leading to a narrow passage that gives access to a corner bartizan. The third-floor chamber (no mural chamber at this level) is entered through a doorway, at its SE corner, from the top of the spiral stairs. The stairs leading up to the wall-walk is positioned just inside the chamber, to the N of the doorway. The room is lit by six windows: one each in the E and W walls and a pair each in the S and N walls. These are similar to those on the floors below save for the two near the W end of the N and S walls. These have triple ogee-headed lights with a mullion division and a hood-moulding. The spandrels of the N window are decorated with motifs carved in shallow relief including a bird and leaf patterns. The two bartizans are identical, projecting slightly beyond the wall faces and carried by five tapered corbels with the central one on the corner. The central corbel on the SW bartizan has a carved floral motif on either face. The walls are pierced by gun loops (see drawing in Barrington 1976, 217). Ballymalus Castle was built in the 16th century by the Ferris family who were 'guardians of the line of the Laune' (ibid., 218). In 1656 Murrogh McOwen Ferris was the proprietor, but the property was confiscated and passed to the Eagars shortly afterwards (Bary 1994, 38). In the 1840s a dwelling house (or the ruin of one) abutted the tower on its western side (OSL, 196-7) but there is now no trace of this structure. Nor is there any trace of the 'trench or moat [KE057-076002-] surrounding [the] castle' which was described in the 1940s (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE057-076002 Earthwork
  Description

  Associated with a tower house (KE057-076001-). In the 1940s it was recorded that the remains of 'a trench or moat surrounding [the] castle' survived here (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). According to local traditon the tower house was built on 'a big earthen fort' of which there is no longer any trace (ibid.). This earthwork is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE057-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, in an area liable to floods, on the N bank of the Laune River. Access to the rath was not gained as the area was inaccessible due to winter floods. The rath is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. 25m). It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1895 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE057-126 Bridge
  Description

  Humpback road bridge (long axis NW-SE) spanning the Gweestin River. Built of random rubble sandstone. Three segmental arches with roughly shaped voussoirs. Two low pointed cutwaters on upstream side of piers. Vertical stone coping on parapets. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE057-127 Mill - paper
  Description

  A large mill complex operating as the Kerry Woollen Mills is situated c. 50m E of the Gweestin river. The old mill buildings occupy the W, N and part of the E side of a cobbled yard with a residential two-storey 19th-century house at the S end of the E side with an access road to the S. A brick and stone-built two-storey range with dormer windows on the W side of the yard was recently raised by two or three courses of bricks . Formerly it had a weaving room on the ground floor and a spinning mule on the upper floor; it is now used as a shop and for storage. A substantial 3-storey building at the N end is built of random rubble construction and its hipped roof has been replaced with corrugated iron. The interior accommodates a line shaft from the turbine and numerous pieces of machinery including fulling machinery. There are a number of additions to the W including a corrugated iron structure accommodating a Crosley Diesel engine. The turbine is in an enclosed wheel-pit covered by a wheel-house at the NW corner. The long single-storey buildings with attics along the N side of the yard were originally used as a drying hall with a oft for storage. The ground floor now accommodates a long washing machine made by John Petrie, Rochdale. Mid 20th-century concrete building to the S accommodate a wide range of machinery mainly for washing, fulling and drying. Single storey early 19th-century office building runs WNW from the SW corner of yard. To the S of the yard and on the W side of entrance road are mid 20th-century weaving and storage sheds. Large Mill pond to N built in 1835 and enlarged in 1920s. Electricity provides the main source of power but on occasion the turbine is put into operation. Two millstones lean against N range probably from when mill operated as a flour mill (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 53). Indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a Paper Mill with a similar ground plan. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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).

• Ballymalis, Beaufort6 sales

Name

Ballymalis · Béal Átha Málais

Area

2,016,084 m² (201.61 ha, 498.19 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbonane, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Kilbonane, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Coolroe North, Coolroe South, Gortnaskarry, Kilbonane, Lissavane West, Listry, Slievegaura, Tullig, Whitefield

Placenames

Ballymalis on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.