Ballyhennessy

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhennessy, from 307 m² to 468,477 m² (46.85 ha, 115.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Ballyhennessy 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.

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT (1) A SLATTED CUBILCE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANKS; (2) CALVING/CALF HOUSE (3) STORAGE SHED FOR HAY/STRAW (4) ANCILLARY CONCRETE YARD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 211148

• 1 Jun 2021Conditional

  BUILD A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21592

• 19 Dec 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT 2 NO. SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSES, COMPLETE WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 191302

• 28 Jun 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY, STORE, POWER ROOM, AN EASY FEED SLATTED HOUSE FOR DRY CATTLE, DEMOLISH THE OLD MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY AND COW HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19681

• 29 Aug 2018Conditional

  RETAIN SUNROOM AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18852

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 Ballyhennessy.

Recorded monuments

• KE016-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 25.6m N-S, 28.6m E-W This bivallate rath is situated two fields NE of KE016-019----. It is in low-lying wet land, but the view is excellent in all directions. Though much levelled and fairly waterlogged, this site is still quite visible. It consists of a circular raised area c .3m high, though to the N a slight trace of an enclosing bank is visible. To the S to SE, the raised area has been completely levelled. The enclosing fosse is c 1m wide. The outer earthen bank is 4m wide and .2m high. The interior would appear to be slightly lower 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. 607. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE016-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 34m E-W This circular univallate rath is marked on the 1841-42 and 1914-15 OS maps. Today it has been much levelled and only the W through N to E sector survives, mainly as a raised area, though from the N to E a low wide bank is visible. It is c 14m wide and 1m-3.5m high. A slight trace of an exterior fosse can be traced from the N to NE where it is 5m wide and .4m deep. No surface trace of the remainder of the site can be seen. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 606. 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 Ballyhennessy.

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 Ballyhennessy, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

• Ballyhennessy, Lixnaw6 sales

Name

Ballyhennessy · Baile Uí Aonghasa

Area

1,689,867 m² (168.99 ha, 417.58 acres)

Civil parish

Dysert (Listowel Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ballyhorgan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

455 people lived in 166 households in the Ballyhorgan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincraheen, Ballintogher, Ballyhorgan South, Ballynageragh, Clondouglas, Clooncolla, Muckenagh

Placenames

Ballyhennessy 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.