Ballynasare Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Minard, barony of Corkaguiny, Co. Kerry; in Irish Baile na Saor Beag
- Area
- 29 ha
- 72 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 7,426 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynasare Beg, from 378 m² to 145,020 m² (14.5 ha, 35.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynasare Beg 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
14 Aug 2017Refused
FOR A WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY, FOR THE RECOVERY OF INERT WASTE MATERIAL FOR THE PURPOSES OF LAND RECLAMATION FOR AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY
Retention · Kerry County Council, 17792
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 Ballynasare Beg.
Recorded monuments
- KE044-092 Fulacht fia
Description
A horseshoe-shaped mound situated in rough, marshy pastureland on the E bank of a small river. Its overall dimensions are 15m N-S x 13.5m E-W and, apart from a narrow gap at S, it completely encloses a sub-circular area measuring 4.5m x 5.2m. The mound rises .6m above this central area and is composed of small burnt and fire-shattered stones. A further 3 fulachta fiadh have been recorded 250m S on the bank of the same river. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 242. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 4 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynasare Beg.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Ballynasare Beg.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynasare Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynasare Beg · Baile na Saor Beag
- Area
- 290,213 m² (29.02 ha, 71.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Minard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corkaguiny
- Electoral division
- Minard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Minard electoral division: 444 people in 160 households; 75% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvogig, Ballynasare Lower, Banoge South, Gortnagullanagh, Maumagarrane
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Ballynasare Beg 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.