Bawnmore

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawnmore, from 97 m² to 266,606 m² (26.66 ha, 65.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Bawnmore 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.

• 4 Jul 2025Refused

  (A) RETAIN THE WIDENING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO PUBLIC ROAD; (B) RETAIN THE ROADSIDE AND WESTERN SIDE BOUNDARY WALLS TO SITE AS CONSTRUCTED AND (C) RETAIN ACCESS ROAD AND HARDSTAND AREA WITHING HTE FIELD

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 25180

• 28 Apr 2023Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF KITCHEN, EN-SUITES AND ADJOINING DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO (1) CONVERT FRONT PORTION OF EXISTING SHEDS LOCATED ON WESTERN SIDE BOUNDARY INTO A CRAFT ROOM AND A HOME OFFICE FOR USE ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE; AND (2) TO RAISE THE ROOF OF THE FRONT AND REAR PORTIONS OF THE EXISTING SHEDS WITH ALL ASSOCIATED/PROPOSED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE STORAGE SHEDS; AND ALL SSOCIATED WITH WORKS, LOCATED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23469

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION , GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18372

• 24 Jan 2018Conditional

  RETAIN LAND RECLAIMATION WORKS COMPRISING OF THE IMPORTATION OF INERT WASTE SUCH AS TOPSOIL AND SUBSOIL AND PERMISSION FOR LAND RECLAIMATION WORKS COMPRISING THE IMPORTATION AND USE OF INERT MATERIAL SUCH AS TOPSOIL AND SUBSOIL

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 1838

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 Bawnmore.

Recorded monuments

• KE014-086 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 32m N-S, 32.6m E-W This site is marked on the 1842 OS map as a circular enclosure; it does not appear on the 1916 edition. The site has been much levelled, though it is still quite distinguishable. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a low, wide earthen bank. The width of the bank at its base is 6m-l1m, and the height on average is .9m above the interior. The interior is at a slightly higher level than 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. 460. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE014-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 20m E-W Situated NE of KE014-086----, this circular enclosure is marked on the 1842 OS map but does not appear on the 1916 edition. The S sector has been cut by a fieldbank running E-W. All that remains today is a semi-circular raised area at a height of 1.3m 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. 461. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE014-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 26.4m This site is situated in such a way that it becomes the boundary of four fields. The univallate rath has been levelled; to the S to E the enclosing bank and fosse have been completely levelled. Elsewhere, the well-defined enclosing bank is 1.6m-2.6m above the interior and has a steep exterior side which rises to a maximum height of 3.5m above the fosse. The fosse is also well defined, being U shaped, round bottomed, steep and wide; it is 2.4m-3.6m in width and .8m-1.4m below the height of the surrounding land. The interior is at a slightly higher level than the surrounding land, and in the SW sector is a depression 6.4m x 5.4m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 462. 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 Bawnmore.

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 Bawnmore, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Bawnmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Bawnmore · An Bán Mór

Area

2,339,176 m² (233.92 ha, 578.02 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoyly, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ballynorig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

549 people lived in 196 households in the Ballynorig electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykealy, Ballyronan, Garrynaneaskagh, Kilmoyly South, Lerrig North, Toanreagh

Placenames

Bawnmore 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.