# Ballymore, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cloghane, barony of Corkaguiny, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Baile Mór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 184,565 m² (18.46 ha, 45.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,054 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cloghane, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/cloghane.md - Barony: Corkaguiny - Electoral division: Brandon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22489 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70300 - Centre: latitude 52.274826, longitude -10.159569 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1216641: 22,376 m² (2.24 ha, 5.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1216641.md - Parcel 1149355: 16,281 m² (1.63 ha, 4.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1149355.md - Parcel 1232440: 14,971 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232440.md - Parcel 1146909: 11,833 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1146909.md - Parcel 5691476: 11,524 m² (1.15 ha, 2.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5691476.md - Parcel 1223598: 11,375 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223598.md - Parcel 1232088: 10,576 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232088.md - Parcel 2950328: 10,276 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2950328.md - Parcel 1232433: 9,195 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232433.md - Parcel 1232437: 8,833 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232437.md - Parcel 1216639: 8,054 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1216639.md - Parcel 1232438: 7,670 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232438.md - Parcel 1232446: 7,345 m² (0.73 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232446.md - Parcel 1232449: 6,421 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232449.md - Parcel 1230926: 5,707 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1230926.md - Parcel 1236362: 4,988 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1236362.md - Parcel 1190452: 4,796 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1190452.md - Parcel 1232442: 4,061 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232442.md - Parcel 1193476: 3,506 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193476.md - Parcel 1191760: 2,383 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1191760.md - Parcel 1191260: 2,302 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1191260.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ballymore in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE026-007: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE026-007----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymore. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballymore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballymore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballymore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Ballymore, Ventry: 6 sales, https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballymore-ventry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Farran: https://everytownland.com/kerry/farran-71264.md - Murirrigane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/murirrigane.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballymore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/ballymore