Ballynamuddagh
Ballynamuddagh is a townland in the civil parish of Duagh, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Baile na mBodach.
- Area
- 101.1 ha
- 250 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 8,375 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynamuddagh, from 1,447 m² to 260,422 m² (26.04 ha, 64.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynamuddagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Aug 2024Conditional
planning permission to construct domestic garage/store with associated works
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460604
20 Feb 2019Conditional
ERECT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL AN IRL8 TRICEL NOVO WASTEWATER TREATMENT PUMPED UNIT AND SANDCELL TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19157
29 Sept 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, CONSERVATORY, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17972
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynamuddagh.
Recorded monuments
- KE018-002 Enclosure
Description
Internal diameter 91m N-S, 87m E-W This large univallate rath is situated on high ground and has a panoramic view of the surrounding countryside. It consists of a large circular area enclosed by an earthen bank which is on average 6m wide at the base and rises to 3.4m externally and 1m-2.5m above the interior. Only a slight trace of an exterior fosse can be noted to the SW for 15m. The section of the fosse which survives is 5m wide and .4m below the external ground level. Two gaps appear, one to the ENE measuring c 7m in width, the other to the SW measuring c 6m in width. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 663. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynamuddagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballynamuddagh, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3438 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynamuddagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynamuddagh · Baile na mBodach
- Area
- 1,011,083 m² (101.11 ha, 249.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Moynsha, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 493 people lived in 183 households in the Moynsha electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacjordan, Ballynagraigue, Coolaneelig, Knocknacrohy
- Placenames
- Ballynamuddagh 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.