Ballynakilly Upper

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakilly Upper, from 42 m² to 1,205,576 m² (120.56 ha, 297.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Ballynakilly Upper 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 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22131

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

• KE071-070 Rock art
  Description

  In centre of improved pasture field, on a NW-facing slope (166m OD). Distant view of Atlantic Ocean to N, between Drung Hill and Droum; Coomasaharn mountains to W. A substantial sandstone boulder (dims. 4.40m NW-SE; 3.50m NE-SW; max. H 1.80m), which has three roughly rectangular decorated surfaces: The main decorated surface (dims. 1.30m NW-SE; 0.50m NE-SW) is located close to ground level at NE-side of NW-facing aspect; the second decorated surface (dims. 0.65m N-S; 0.20m E-W) is on top of the boulder and the third decorated surface (dims. 3.2m N-S; 2.3m E-W) is on the SE-facing aspect. The boulder is slightly rough and fractured and the rock art is weathered yet traceable. The main concentration of motifs are upon the NE-facing aspect and consist of two similar motifs each comprising of a simple cross enclosed by a circular ring at S-side of decorated surface. The western cross-and-ring motif (dims. 15cm N-S; 14cm E-W; D 4mm) is connected to the eastern cross-and-ring motif (dims. 18cm N-S; 15cm E-W; D 4mm) by a linear groove (L14cm; Wth 1cm; D 3-4mm). A second linear groove (L 20cm; D 4mm) links the eastern cross-and-ring motif to a cup-and-two-ring motif, at NW. This cup-and-two-ring motif (diam. 18cm) has a cupmark (diam. 2cm; D 3mm) which is enclosed by a complete inner ring and an incomplete outer ring that is truncated by a linear groove (L 12cm) at W. A penannular ring (dims. 9cm N-S; 8cm E-W; D 4mm) formed by obvious pickmarks and open at S, is located 3cm to N. A number of linear grooves are noted to N and NW of the cup-and-two-ring motif, the longest groove (L 42cm N-S; Wth 3.5cm) is to N. A possible cup-and-ring motif (dims. 10cm NW-SE) is truncated by a linear groove (L 19cm NNW-SSE; Wth 3cm) across the NE-sector. Two cupmarks (diam. 3-4cm; D 4-5mm) are located to NW. A long, meandering groove and possible solution marks are located further to W. It should be noted that some of the linear grooves may be modern as they have a relatively fresh appearance. The top of the boulder is generally level and bears two cup-and-two-ring motifs (aligned N-S). The northern cup-and-two-ring motif (diam. 14cm) has a cupmark (diam . 1.5cm; D 2mm) and rings (Wth 1cm; D 2-3mm). The inner ring is complete and the outer ring is truncated (long-axis N-S) across the W-side by a linear groove (L 15cm N-S; Wth 3cm; D 3mm). The second cup-and-two-ring motif (diam. 16cm) having a cupmark (diam. 2cm; D 4mm) and rings (Wth 1cm; D 3mm) is located 12cm to S. A linear groove (L 19cm N-S; Wth 2cm; D 4mm) extends from 1cm to S of the outer ring. Again, these grooves are possibly modern as they appear fresh. The SE-facing aspect of the boulder also bears rock art in the form of a curvilinear groove (L 2.40m N-S; Wth 3cm; D 4-5mm) situated toward the W-side. A second curvilinear groove (L 0.64m NE-SW; Wth 4cm; D 3mm) is located off 1m to E, at its closet point. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 March 2017

• KE071-072 Hut site
  Description

  Hut site identified and described by John Loesberg as; 'On northern slopes of Beenregh mountain. Close to 'junction' of ancient walls. Small, dry-stone building, oval in shape c. 2 x 1.1m interior dimensions, with NE opening. Second part, which was conjoined, much ruined with c. 1m interior diameter'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by John Loesberg Date of upload: 7 October 2022

• KE071-078 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Possible fulacht fia identified and described by John Loesberg as; 'On northern slopes of Beenreagh mountain. Surrounded by lots of dry stone walls. Also ancient, intermittent stone walls in the area. Inverted U shaped mound, high in the centre and tapering off on either side. Overall dimensions c. 10 x 10m. Max height c. 1.5m. Although no obvious stream is nearby, to the east the soil is full of water and in some places older, now dry watercourses can be seen'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by John Loesberg Date of upload: 7 October 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynakilly Upper, 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 high, 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 Ballynakilly Upper.

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.

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

Name

Ballynakilly Upper

Area

3,011,877 m² (301.19 ha, 744.25 acres)

Civil parish

Glanbehy, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Glanbehy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,269 people lived in 465 households in the Glanbehy electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakilly, Ballynakilly Lower, Canearagh, Coolroe Upper, Coomavoon, Creeveen, Keel

Placenames

Ballynakilly Upper 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.