Banard

131 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Banard, from 19 m² to 409,703 m² (40.97 ha, 101.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Banard 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.

• 3 Apr 2026Conditional

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage with a connection to a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site services

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660301

• 12 Feb 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct an extension to include a toilet and SET (Special Education Teaching) Classroom

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560075

• 2 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwelling house and garage served by an effluent treatment tank and polishing filter

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360200

• 6 Apr 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO INCLUDE A TOILET AND SET (SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHING) CLASSROOM

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 23374

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22247

• 19 Oct 2021Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 211183

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DORMER DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER UNIT AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211175

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALL A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21755

• 18 Sept 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE SERVED BY MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19973

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• KE060-052 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, at the bottom of a S-facing slope, on the edge of an overgrown level marshy area with views SW to the Paps of Dana. In the 1940s a fulacht fia was recorded in James Lucy's land in a field called 'Mach' (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). The location of a mound of burnt material was pointed out by the present landowner but there are no visible remains of it. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Banard.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Banard.

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.

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

Name

Banard

Area

2,527,472 m² (252.75 ha, 624.55 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Rathmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmore electoral division: 1,941 people in 735 households; 67% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Freemount, Gortnaprocess, Gullaun West, Knockacappul, Meennagishagh, Meentoges, Stagmount

Placenames

Banard 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.