Ballymore

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymore, from 2,302 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 22,376 m² (2.24 ha, 5.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Ballymore 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 Ballymore 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 Ballymore.

Recorded monuments

• KE026-007 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Calluragh Burial Ground/An Cheallúnach: This appears to have been in use as a burial ground for children until at least the 1840's (OSNB Cloghane, 25). It consists of a quadrant-shaped mound which is composed mainly of stones, now grass-grown and partly obscured by vegetation. It measures a maximum of 19.9m E-W and 16m N-S and is up to c. 1m high above the external ground level. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 886. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballymore, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Ballymore, Ventry6 sales

Name

Ballymore · An Baile Mór

Area

184,565 m² (18.46 ha, 45.61 acres)

Civil parish

Cloghane, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Brandon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

159 people lived in 66 households in the Brandon electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 28% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Farran, Murirrigane

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballymore 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.