Banna-Mountain
Banna-Mountain is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmoyly, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is An Bheannach.
Parcel 1184687
- Area
- 144,953 m² (14.5 ha, 35.82 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Banna-Mountain
Planning applications on this parcel
16 Jun 2026N/a
retention permission to a) retain the existing garden room as constructed. The building will provide ancillary leisure areas to the main dwelling and a home office only. b) retain all associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660546
19 Dec 2023Conditional
a) construct a new dwelling, b) install a mechanical treatment unit and sand polishing filter and c) construct all associated site works at Banna Mountain, Ardfert, Co. Kerry
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360429
28 Aug 2023Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling at Banna Mountain, Ardfert, Co. Kerry.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360126
23 Nov 2022Refused
CONSTRUCT AN ANCILLARY GRANNY FLAT TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221219
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_59 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 255.2 ha
- 631 acres
- Land parcels
- 336
- registered freehold, median 1,182 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
336 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Banna-Mountain, from 7 m² to 149,211 m² (14.92 ha, 36.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Banna-Mountain 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
16 Jun 2026N/a
retention permission to a) retain the existing garden room as constructed. The building will provide ancillary leisure areas to the main dwelling and a home office only. b) retain all associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660546
8 Apr 2025Conditional
to construct a new easy feed slatted unit complete with slatted slurry tanks, cubicles, feed passage and all ancillary site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560266
17 Apr 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCT A C. 810 KWP RENEWABLE ENERGY SOLAR PV INSTALLATION CONSISTING OF UP TO C. 3,591M2 (1500NO) GROUND MOUNTED SOLAR PANELS FIXED TO METAL FRAMES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 24158
19 Dec 2023Conditional
a) construct a new dwelling, b) install a mechanical treatment unit and sand polishing filter and c) construct all associated site works at Banna Mountain, Ardfert, Co. Kerry
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360429
30 Nov 2023Conditional
The decommissioning of the two existing septic tanks and the construction of a new wastewater treatment system consisting of a tricel novo p6 unit followed by a sand cell 900 sand filter and a soil polishing filter
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360377
28 Aug 2023Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling at Banna Mountain, Ardfert, Co. Kerry.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360126
23 Nov 2022Refused
CONSTRUCT AN ANCILLARY GRANNY FLAT TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221219
23 Feb 2021N/a
(A) INSTALL 10 NO. STATIC MOBILE PITCHES (B) CONSTRUCT AN INTERNAL SERVICE ROAD ALONG WITH OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS INCLUDING THE CONNECTION OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT TO THE EXISTING ON SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission · Kerry County Council, 21168
25 May 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A MACHINERY HOUSE, WALLED SILAGE PIT, SILAGE APRON AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE YARD
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20453
8 Dec 2017Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING GRANNY FLAT EXTENSION AT WESTERN SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING, ERECT NEW GRANNY FLAT EXTENSION IN LIEU OF SAME, REMOVE SLATE FROM EXISTING DWELLING AND RE-SLATE ROOF TO MATCH NEW EXTENSION ROOF, ALTER AND EXTEND EXISTING SITE BOUNDARIES TO FACILITATE THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171218
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
- 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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Banna-Mountain.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Banna-Mountain.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Banna-Mountain, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_58 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Banna-Mountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Banna-Mountain · An Bheannach
- Area
- 2,552,354 m² (255.24 ha, 630.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmoyly, 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
- Banna South, Banna West, Brandonwell, Carrahane Lower, Commons, Dinneens, Killeacle
- Placenames
- Banna-Mountain 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.