Ballyreehan East
Townland in the civil parish of Kilfeighny, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Baile Uí Riacháin Thoir
- Area
- 86.6 ha
- 214 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 3,829 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyreehan East, from 82 m² to 368,466 m² (36.85 ha, 91.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Ballyreehan East 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
30 Sept 2024Conditional
Full planning permission to demolish existing attic accommodation, construct a new rear extension onto existing dwelling house, elevation changes and internal alterations, install a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460740
13 Jul 2020Conditional
RETAIN (1) EXISTING DWELLING AS BUILT (PREVIOUS PLANNING REF. NO. 80/1228) AND EXISTNG ENTRANCE AS BUILT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (2) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DETACHED DOMESTIC SHED AS BUILT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (3) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT NIT AND RAISED SOIL POLISHING FILTER, ALL THE ABOVE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20620
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- KE016-064 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914-15 OS maps. A small stream appears to rise in the interior, flow NW through the bank and then turn W towards Ballyreehan Bridge. This site can be picked up on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1974) as a possible crop mark, but no surface trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 615. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE016-069 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 17m N-S, 18m E-W A sub-circular univallate rath has been cut on its W side by a fieldbank running N-S. This site has been much levelled and the enclosing earthen bank is low, wide and barely visible; it is c 7m wide and .4m high. On the E side it survives only as a slight, gradual slope towards the interior, which is at the same level as the surrounding area. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 616. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE016-070 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 24m N-S, 21m E-W Situated SE of KE016-069---- in the same field, this sub-circular univallate rath has been much levelled. A fieldbank ran along the W side of this site, but this has since been levelled. All that survives is the inner area, enclosed by a low, wide earthen bank; it is c 5m wide and .5m high. Curving in from the W bank on the interior side towards the centre and then curving to the NW is a raised area, 13.4m x 8.6m x .3m high. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 617. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
- KE016-071 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter c. 48m N-S, 41m E-W This site is situated NE of KE016-070----, in the corner of the same field. It has been cut along the S and E side by fieldbanks, though a small section of the enclosing bank can be distinguished S of the fieldbank. The enclosing bank, much levelled and fairly broken up, is c 10m-14m wide and .8m high. In the centre of the interior is a raised oval shape, 8m N-S, 6m E-W and .6m high. It has a very gradual slope and is cut on the S side by the fieldbank running E-W. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 618. 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 Ballyreehan East.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyreehan East.
- 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 Ballyreehan East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyreehan East · Baile Uí Riacháin Thoir
- Area
- 865,672 m² (86.57 ha, 213.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfeighny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Kilfeighny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilfeighny electoral division: 993 people in 372 households; 87% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincraheen, Ballyreehan West, Irrabeg, Kilfeighny North, Tullig
- Placenames
- Ballyreehan East 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.