Ballyrobert
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmoyly, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Baile Roibeaird
- Area
- 40.8 ha
- 101 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 13,171 m² (1.32 ha, 3.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrobert, from 2,161 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) to 135,728 m² (13.57 ha, 33.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Ballyrobert 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
5 Nov 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to a) Extend and renovate the existing dwelling, b) Demolish existing sheds on site, c) decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area, d) install a new septic tank and percolation area, e) Utilise the existing vehicular site entrance, to be shared with the farm and f) construct all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561027
21 Dec 2023Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT TWO STOREY DWELLING AND ATTACHED SINGLE STOREY AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE ON FOOTPRINT OF DEMOLISHED STRUCTURES WITH A MECHANICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A RAISED SAND POLISHING FILTER, ALL WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231199
16 Jun 2021Conditional
(A) RELOCATE EXISTING ROADSIDE ENTRANCE FOR ACCESS TO DWELLING HOUSE (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO INCREASE HEIGHT OF ROADSIDE BOUNDARY WALL PERTAINING TO EXISTING DWELLING TO NORTHERN SIDE OF PROPOSED NEW ENTRANCE ALL WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21645
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 Ballyrobert.
Recorded monuments
- KE021-046 Enclosure
Description
This circular enclosure is clearly marked on the 1841-42 OS map. It is not as clearly defined on the 1898 map, and its S end is cut by a fieldbank running E-W. No surface trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1085. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyrobert.
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 Ballyrobert.
- 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 Ballyrobert with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyrobert · Baile Roibeaird
- Area
- 408,432 m² (40.84 ha, 100.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmoyly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Tubrid, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tubrid electoral division: 870 people in 299 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardrahan, Clogher, Creegooane, Lerrig South, Rareagh, Sackville
- Placenames
- Ballyrobert 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.