Ballytrasna
Townland in the civil parish of Aglish, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 70.6 ha
- 174 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 2,957 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballytrasna, from 327 m² to 171,094 m² (17.11 ha, 42.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballytrasna 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
1 Dec 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211372
21 Oct 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20998
20 Dec 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE COMPLETE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171287
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 Ballytrasna.
Recorded monuments
- KE058-291 Enclosure
Description
In improved pasture, on W side of field boundary (long-axis N-S). Reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as the low remains of half an enclosure. Remains of low profile, semi-circular area (dims. 20m N-S; 6m E-W) defined by scarp (Wth 3m; H 0.35m) S->W->NNW; poorly defined at S. Scant traces of possible fosse S->W->NNW. Interior is level and grass covered. Earthen field boundary (long-axis NNW-SSE; H 0.8m; Wth 0.5m) truncates monument to E. Deep land drain (D c. 1.2m) along E-side of field boundary, defined by dense thicket of vegetation. No trace of monument in pasture, to E. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 9 October 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballytrasna.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballytrasna.
- 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 Ballytrasna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Ballytrasna
- Area
- 705,673 m² (70.57 ha, 174.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aglish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Aglish, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aglish electoral division: 520 people in 183 households; 85% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolbane, Coolroe East, Coolroe West, Laharan, Seersha, Trippeenagh
- Placenames
- Ballytrasna 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.