Ballyronan

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyronan, from 171 m² to 290,876 m² (29.09 ha, 71.88 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyronan 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.

• 10 Dec 2025Conditional

  OF (A) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING 2 STOREY DWELLING WALLS, (B) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE NEW FOUNDATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED, (C) FULL PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AND COMPLETE THE PROPOSED DWELLING WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REG. 221019, WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2561154

• 31 May 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23636

• 28 Sept 2022Conditional

  RENOVATE EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING AND CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION ONTO THE SIDE (SOUTH) ELEVATION AND THE REAR (WEST) ELEVATION WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, FORM A NEW ENTRANCE ON THE ROADSIDE BOUNDARY TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING AND RENOVATE AND CARRY OUT ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING BARN ON SITE, CONSISTING OF RAISING THE EXISTING ROOF AND CREATING NEW OPENINGS WHICH WILL BE USED AS A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORAGE AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221019

• 31 May 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21588

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201173

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyronan.

Recorded monuments

• KE014-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 21.5m Situated immediately N of a rath (KE014-071----) in the same field, this site has extensive views in all directions. This univallate rath has been much levelled. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a low, wide earthen bank, 5m-8m in width at the base, and rising to .4m above the interior and .7m above the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 458. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE014-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 44m N-S, 45m E-W This univallate rath is situated immediately S of KE014-070----. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a high, well-defined earthen bank and external fosse. The enclosing bank is on average 6.5m in width at the base, and it rises to a maximum of 4.4m above the fosse and 2.8m above the interior. The external fosse is U shaped and well defined especially to the W through N to E. It is between 1.6m to 2.6m wide and between .6m to 1.5m deep. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land and access to the interior is gained by a 9.6m wide entrance on the E side. In the W sector of the interior there is a slight mound (KE014-071001-) 8m x 10m externally. A fieldbank touches this site on the E side, just S of the entrance. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 459. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE014-071001 Mound
  Description

  Univallate rath KE014-071---- is situated immediately S of KE014-070----. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a high, well-defined earthen bank and external fosse. In the W sector of the interior there is a slight mound (KE014-071001-) 8m x 10m externally. A fieldbank touches this site on the E side, just S of the entrance. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 459. 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 Ballyronan.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballyronan, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyronan.

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.

No address of the register names Ballyronan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballyronan · Baile Uí Rónáin

Area

945,997 m² (94.6 ha, 233.76 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyheige, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ballyheige, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,446 people lived in 570 households in the Ballyheige electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnmore, Booleenshare, Caherulla, Dromgower, Garrynaneaskagh, Toanreagh

Placenames

Ballyronan 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.