Ballynalacken

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynalacken, from 48 m² to 237,860 m² (23.79 ha, 58.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Ballynalacken 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.

• 24 Mar 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission for the existing agricultural entrance, and for the alteration of existing ground levels within the site, and permission to construct an agricultural shed and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560213

• 11 Mar 2024N/a

  Retention Permission for the alteration of existing ground levels within the site, and permission to construct an agricultural shed and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2460148

• 22 Aug 2023N/a

  Permission to construct an agricultural shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360109

• 12 Oct 2022Conditional

  RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND PERMISSION TO EXTEND HER DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221069

• 1 Sept 2022Conditional

  (1) RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM, A DOMESITC SHED AND BORE WELL HOUSING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS AND (2) ALL BUILDINGS WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22924

• 30 Sept 2020Conditional

  RETENTION PERMISSION TO (A) RETAIN THE EXISTING HOUSE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES; PLANNING PERMISSION TO (B) DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK. INSTALL A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT, PURAFLO MODULES, AND POLISHING FILTER;(C) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY ALTERATIONS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20906

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: Mount Brandon SAC 000375
• Special Area of Conservation: Tralee Bay and Magharees Peninsula, West to Cloghane SAC 002070
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tralee Bay And Magharees Peninsula, West To Cloghane 002070
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount Brandon 000375

Recorded monuments

• KE034-015001 Hut site
  Description

  Clochán na hEaglaise: On steep SE facing mountain slope. A circular corbelled drystone hut. D: 3.5m. H: 2.04m. Two wall niches in interior. A small, drystone chamber is built against the exterior, directly N of the entrance at NE. This is sub-rectangular in plan and is roofed by a series of flat slabs. It measures 1.4 x .8m x .65m high internally. There is a tradition that mass was said here in Penal Times (An Seabhac 1939, 227), but the possible cross-inscribed stone KE034-015002- recorded by the CKFC (1949) could not be located. Though the hillside is strewn with rock outcrop and loose scree, a wide, stone-free track leads downhill from the hut for c. 150m in a zig-zag manner, its downslope edge defined by a line of boulders and some upright stones. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1139. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE034-015002 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  Clochán na hEaglaise: On steep SE facing mountain slope. A circular corbelled drystone hut. There is a tradition that mass was said here in Penal Times (An Seabhac 1939, 227), but the possible cross-inscribed stone KE034-015002- recorded by the CKFC (1949) could not be located. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1139. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

• KE035-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 30m WSW-ENE, c. 21m NNW-SSE This oval rath is situated on the lower E slopes of Brandon mountain and commands a sweeping view along the Owenmore valley and across Brandon Bay as far as the central mountain ridge of the peninsula. A disused laneway runs ENE-WSW across the site, dividing it into 2 unequal portions. The larger NW portion is enclosed by a single earthen bank up to 1.8m high and an average of 1.33m wide at base. There is a featureless gap, .65m wide, at N. To SE of the lane, the bank has been removed, but the outline of the enclosure is preserved as a scarp which rises up to 1.8m above the external ground level. A low, narrow bank or wall skirts the edge of the platform, at a distance of c. 1.3m; this is a later feature, possibly defining a path around the site. The interior slopes gently downhill to SE and contains mounds and hollows which form no recognisable pattern. An Seabhac (1939, 227) recorded a souterrain in a ringfort in this townland, but it is not clear to which of the 3 known ringforts he refers. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 334. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

• KE035-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A semi-circular platform abutting the S side of a lane on the lower E slopes of Brandon mountain. The site commands a sweeping view along the Owenmore valley and across Brandon Bay to the central mountain ridge of the Dingle Peninsula. The platform rises 3.5m on the SE downslope side but its NW edge is flush with the external ground level. It measures 28.15m E-W and 14.1m N-S across its upper surface. A number of loose stones scattered along the densely overgrown perimeter and flanks of the platform may be the collapsed remains of an enclosing wall or stone-revetted bank. A field wall now runs along the E edge of the platform and the N side is bounded by the lane wall. The site may originally have been circular, the N portion being removed when the lane was constructed. It is named 'Fort' on the Fair Plan. An Seabhac (1939, 227) recorded a souterrain in a ringfort in this townland but it is not clear to which of the 3 known ringforts he refers. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 626. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE035-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 25.4m A bivallate rath situated on an ESE facing slope overlooking the estuary of the Owenmore river. About 50m to SW, a small river flows ESE towards the estuary. The banks have been levelled to NW and a straight field wall now defines this side; the banks around the remainder of the perimeter are densely overgrown. The inner bank rises up to 1.5m above the interior and up to 2.5m above the base of the fosse; it is 4.8m wide at base. The fosse has been filled in along the E half of the site, but is well-preserved in the SW sector where it is c. 2m wide at base and c. 2 to 3m deep below the crest of the outer bank. This latter is c. 3.7m wide at base and 1m high externally; for a short distance at SE, it is obscured by a NE-SW running field wall. There are intermittent traces of drystone facing on the inner flanks of both banks. The interior is traversed by a series of cultivation ridges. An Seabhac (1939, 227) recorded a souterrain in a ringfort in this townland, but it is not clear to which of the 3 known ringforts he refers. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 335. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballynalacken with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballynalacken · Baile na Leacan

Area

1,172,035 m² (117.2 ha, 289.62 acres)

Civil parish

Cloghane, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Cloghane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloghane electoral division: 260 people in 103 households; 87% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 32% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghane, Cloonsharragh, Faha

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballynalacken 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.