# Ballyronan, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyheige, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Baile Uí Rónáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 945,997 m² (94.6 ha, 233.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,470 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyheige, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/ballyheige.md - Barony: Clanmaurice - Electoral division: Ballyheige, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24339 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 70368 - Centre: latitude 52.395756, longitude -9.804547 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyronan, from 171 m² to 290,876 m² (29.09 ha, 71.88 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1245393: 290,876 m² (29.09 ha, 71.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245393.md - Parcel 1245945: 278,042 m² (27.8 ha, 68.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245945.md - Parcel 5219135: 229,191 m² (22.92 ha, 56.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5219135.md - Parcel 1225130: 99,038 m² (9.9 ha, 24.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225130.md - Parcel 5219116: 12,134 m² (1.21 ha, 3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5219116.md - Parcel 3017819: 8,828 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3017819.md - Parcel 2899619: 5,566 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2899619.md - Parcel 1197700: 4,691 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197700.md - Parcel 1245392: 4,250 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245392.md - Parcel 1150223: 4,021 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1150223.md - Parcel 3180335: 4,014 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3180335.md - Parcel 4933868: 2,544 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4933868.md - Parcel 1240365: 2,498 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240365.md - Parcel 1246036: 829 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246036.md - Parcel 1204793: 540 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1204793.md - Parcel 1247685: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1247685.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 10 Dec 2025, Kerry County Council 2561154: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561154/0 - 31 May 2023, Kerry County Council 23636: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/23636/0 - 28 Sept 2022, Kerry County Council 221019: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/221019/0 - 31 May 2021, Kerry County Council 21588: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE SERVED BY A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/21588/0 - 4 Dec 2020, Kerry County Council 201173: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING AS CONSTRUCTED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/201173/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyronan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE014-070: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE014-070----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE014-071----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE014-071001-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyronan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballyronan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballyronan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballyronan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyronan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bawnmore: https://everytownland.com/kerry/bawnmore.md - Booleenshare: https://everytownland.com/kerry/booleenshare.md - Caherulla: https://everytownland.com/kerry/caherulla.md - Dromgower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromgower.md - Garrynaneaskagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/garrynaneaskagh.md - Toanreagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/toanreagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballyronan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/ballyronan