Ballynahow More

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahow More, from 334 m² to 342,820 m² (34.28 ha, 84.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballynahow More 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.

• 16 Mar 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCT GLAMPING SITE WITH 6 GLAMPING PODS, ACCESS ROAD, CARPARKING, REFUSE ENCLOSURE AND ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES, ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 22289

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE070-016 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  This monument is located on a level shoulder of rough mountain pasture, on the lower S facing slope of Knocknadobar. There is a commanding view from the site to W, over the estuary of the Ferta river. The tomb is quite well-preserved, consisting of a gallery, open at both ends, with one cap-stone still in situ. It is orientated ENE-WSW and its sides are reinforced by low buttress-stones, set immediately outside. Traces of a low cairn are discernible, particularly on its S side. In the 1930s a separate rear chamber was noted at its E end (NMI). The N side of the 4m long gallery is composed of three stones ranging in height from .7m to .38m; each is set inside the line of the forerunner to W. Four slabs represent the S side, the tallest, at W, standing .77m high; the remainder generally decrease in height towards the rear of the gallery at E. The width of the gallery decreases from 1.5m at W to just under 1m at the E end. Lines of external buttress-stones are set immediately against the side-stones of the gallery; four low orthostats occur on the N side, averaging .3m high and .35m wide, and eight similar slabs are visible on the S side, some of which are embedded in what appears to be cairn material. The cap-stone, located towards the E end of the gallery, rests directly on pad-stones and its ends oversail the sides of the chamber. It is irregularly shaped and measures 2.9m x 1.4m and .15m in average thickness. On its upper surface lies a .35m thick deposit of peaty material. Four other possible roof-stones lie in the immediate vicinity of the site; one occurs within the gallery. These may have been displaced when the tomb was partially dismantled, early in the twentieth century, to free a trapped farm animal (NMI). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 72. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE070-017 Hut site
  Description

  Located in rocky terrain on the steep S slopes of Knocknadobar. A circular, corbelled hut with adjoining annexes to W and NW. A cross wall divides the hut and its N sector is modified for use as a sheepfold. A lintelled entrance at E is now blocked and the wall at S and W survives largely as a mound of collapse. D: 5.25m. H: 1.9m. A low lintelled passage joins the annex NW of the hut and was interpreted as a small souterrain by O'Connell (OPW, 1939). The annex has a internal diameter of 3.5m. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1123. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE070-017001 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in rocky terrain on the steep S slopes of Knocknadobar. A circular, corbelled hut with adjoining annexes to W and NW. A cross wall divides the hut and its N sector is modified for use as a sheepfold. A lintelled entrance at E is now blocked and the wall at S and W survives largely as a mound of collapse. D: 5.25m. H: 1.9m. A low lintelled passage joins the annex NW of the hut and was interpreted as a small souterrain by O'Connell (OPW, 1939). The annex has a internal diameter of 3.5m. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1123. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

• KE070-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 22.5m N-S, 24m E-W This roughly circular univallate rath is located in gently sloping pastureland just above a sharp drop to the Ferta river at S. The site commands extensive views to S along the river valley. Faint traces of a shallow external fosse, measuring 4m wide and .3m deep, are discernable at NW and S. The earthen enclosing bank is modified and is virtually levelled in the SE sector; elsewhere intermittent traces of drystone facing occur along its inner flank. The bank measures 1.5m high externally, 1.4m high internally and is 2.3m wide. A gap at SW may mark the original entrance. A second gap at NE appears to be of recent origin. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 467. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Ballynahow More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballynahow More

Area

1,808,942 m² (180.89 ha, 447 acres)

Civil parish

Killinane, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Castlequin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlequin electoral division: 583 people in 225 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Foilduff, Foilmore, Gortmore, Killurly Commons, Lisbane

Placenames

Ballynahow More 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.