Ballyplimoth
Ballyplimoth is a townland in the civil parish of Ballincuslane, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Baile Phliomot.
- Area
- 98.2 ha
- 243 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 2,753 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyplimoth, from 119 m² to 318,811 m² (31.88 ha, 78.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ballyplimoth 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
19 Aug 2026N/a
TO RETAIN SHED AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660779
26 Feb 2019Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCT A LIVESTOCK HOUSE WITH SCRAPER TO NEW EXTERNAL UNDERGROUND TANK, (2) EXTEND EXISTING SILO BASE BY WIDENING THE BASE BY 3.6M AND (3) CONSTRUCT A NEW WALLED SILO 20M LONG X 12.2M WIDE WITH 2.7 HIGH WALLS INCORPORATING A SILO APRON 10M LONG
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19182
13 Nov 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL STORE WITH ATTIC STORAGE, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181113
18 Jun 2018Conditional
RETAIN AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SITE ENTRANCE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRIMISING OF A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18595
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 Ballyplimoth.
Recorded monuments
- KE040-043 Castle - tower house
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE040-059 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE040-094 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE040-146 Earthwork
Description
In grassland. Outline of circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 46m) visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthophotos Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 17 May 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyplimoth.
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 Ballyplimoth, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_288 (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 Ballyplimoth with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyplimoth · Baile Phliomot
- Area
- 981,794 m² (98.18 ha, 242.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballincuslane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Crinny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 310 people lived in 112 households in the Crinny electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynahallia, Cordal West, Craggaunoonia, Glanlarehan, Kilcusnaun, Kilquane
- Placenames
- Ballyplimoth 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.