Ballymacquin Lower

96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacquin Lower, from 22 m² to 329,946 m² (32.99 ha, 81.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Ballymacquin Lower 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.

• 1 Sept 2026N/a

  for a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 26139

• 6 Oct 2025Refused

  For a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 25247

• 24 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission to a) decommission an existing septic tank and percolation area, b) install a mechanical treatment unit and raised sand polishing filter, c) construct all associated site works and for Retention Permission to retain (d) the existing polytunnel (e) the existing garden room and (d) all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360257

• 11 May 2022Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE (B) RETAIN EXISTING GRANNY FLAT (C) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A LINK TO EXISTING HOUSE AND GRANNY FLAT, ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL WORKS, SERVICING AND LANDSCAPING

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22489

• 21 Oct 2020N/a

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING GRANNY FLAT (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO LINK EXISTING HOUSE AND GRANNY FLAT , ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL WORKS, SERVICING AND LANDSCAPING

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 201004

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  (A) CONVERT THE SHED ADJOINING HOUSE TO A LIVING AREA WITH PITCHED ROOF (B) SLATE EXISTING PITCHED ROOF AND (C) PROVIDE A SLATTED PITCHED ROOF ON EXISTING BACK EXTENSION

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20886

• 9 Sept 2020N/a

  RETAIN (A) EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE TO THE RETAIN THE EXISTING GRANNY FLAT (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO LINK EXISTING HOUSE AND GRANNY FLAT, ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL WORKS, SERVICING AND LANDSCAPING

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 20820

• 5 Aug 2020N/a

  (A) RETAIN THE EXISITNG DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED ON SITE AND TO RETAIN THE EXISTING GRANNY FLAT, B. PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO LINK EXISTING HOUSE AND GRANNY FLAT ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL WORKS, SERVICING AND LANDSCAPING

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 20703

• 28 Apr 2017Conditional

  RETAIN AND COMPLETE PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED GARAGE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17394

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: Akeragh, Banna and Barrow Harbour SAC 000332
• Special Protection Area: Tralee Bay Complex SPA 004188
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Akeragh, Banna And Barrow Harbour 000332

Recorded monuments

• KE014-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Rathbeg/Ráth Bheag (small ringfort) is marked on the 1842 and 1916 OS maps as a large circular enclosure. In the 1842 map, 'cave' (KE014-079001-) is marked in the interior of the site, but it does not appear on the later edition. Today this site has been completely levelled and no surface trace remains. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 456. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE014-079001 Souterrain
  Description

  Rathbeg/Ráth Bheag (small ringfort; KE014-079----) is marked on the 1842 and 1916 OS maps as a large circular enclosure. In the 1842 map, 'cave' (KE014-079001-) is marked in the interior of the site, but it does not appear on the later edition. Today this site has been completely levelled and no surface trace remains. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 456. 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 Ballymacquin Lower.

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 Ballymacquin Lower, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymacquin Lower · Baile Mhic Cuinn Íochtarach

Area

1,937,867 m² (193.79 ha, 478.86 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfert, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Banna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

793 people lived in 289 households in the Banna electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinprior, Ballymacquin Upper, Buncurrig, Dromgower, Garrynaneaskagh, Kill, Knockroe

Placenames

Ballymacquin Lower 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.