Ballynahow Beg

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahow Beg, from 1,760 m² to 165,803 m² (16.58 ha, 40.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Ballynahow Beg 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.

• 5 Dec 2019Conditional

  EXTEND, RE-ROOF, REFURBISH, DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT WITH INTERMITTENT AND POLISHING FILTER TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 191239

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 Ballynahow Beg.

Recorded monuments

• KE070-056 Rock art
  Description

  This earthfast stone is located in pasture, on the S side of the floor of the Ferta valley. It is roughly triangular in cross-section and only its E face, sloping upwards to W, is decorated. Two planes form this face, and the decoration on the smaller, lower one is somewhat weathered. It consists of a cupmark, a cup-and-ring and a cup-and-two rings, which are joined by a short groove; a longer groove extends from the cup-and-ring. The larger plane features in approximately wedge-shaped grid, formed of subrectangular areas. Incorporated into this grid are two cupmarks, cup-and-ring and two cup-and-two rings with radial grooves. A small cupmark occurs outside the grid. See attached drawing of rock art taken from O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, Fig. 42 The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 262. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013 In improved pasture, toward base of a N-facing slope (40m OD); Earthen and hedgerow field boundary (long axis ENE-WSW) c. 3m to N obscures views to N. A smooth and fractured rock outcrop (dims. 1.98m N-S; 0.80m E-W; 0.35m max. H at E), which is roughly L-shaped in plan. It has an E and a W-facing decorated surface and the motifs are weathered and covered in green moss. Most of the motifs are on the E-facing aspect (dims. 0.90m N-S; 0.42m E-W) where there is a cup-and-two-ring motif (overall diam. 13cm; ring Wth 1cm; D 2-3mm; cup diam. 5cm; D 5mm) located centrally on the S-half of this surface. A very weathered radial groove extends from the cupmark to the exterior of the outer ring. A cupmark (diam. 3cm; D 4mm) is adjacent to SE and SW and a cup-and-two-ring motif (overall diam. 14cm; ring Wth 1cm; D 2-3mm; cup diam. 5cm; D 5mm) is adjacent to NE, where it is at ground level and continues under the sod. All of the aforementioned motifs are enclosed to E, S and W by a complex grid element (overall dims. 35cm N-S; 42cm E-W) comprising of linear grooves (Wth 1cm; D 3-4mm) intersecting at right angles. A cup-and-two-ring motif (overall diam. 11cm; ring Wth 1cm; D 4mm; cup diam. 4cm; D 6mm) is located further to N. According to O’Sullivan & Sheehan (1996, 80; Fig. 42), this was connected to a cup-and-ring motif by a short linear groove, however this is now under the sod. A cupmark (diam. 2cm; D 5mm) is to N and a rosette style motif (overall dims. 8cm N-S; 7cm E-W) formed by six small cupmarks (diam. 2cm) is located c. 7cm to NW. Soil has built up on E-side of the rock outcrop and the lower motifs on the E-facing aspect are not visible (see O’Sullivan & Sheehan 1996, Fig. 42). There is a cupmark (diam. 7cm; D 3mm) with a linear groove (L 17cm N-S; Wth 1cm; D 1-2cm) c. 20cm to W, on the W-facing decorated aspect of the rock outcrop. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 31 May 2017

• KE070-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 32m N-S, 28.5m E-W Cleenagh Fort/Lios na Claoine: This circular univallate rath is located in pastureland on a N facing slope overlooking the Ferta river valley. The earthen enclosing bank has an external height of 2.6m and rises to a maximum of .3m above the interior of the site at NW. The level, raised interior ranges from 1m to 2m high above surrounding ground level. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 465. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE070-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 21m N-S Situated on the top of a low hill overlooking the Ferta river valley, this roughly circular univallate rath is located 115m SE of KE070-057----. It consists of a considerably disturbed and densely overgrown bank and external fosse. A trackway interrupts the bank at N, and a modern field wall overlies it at W. The fosse is best preserved at S, where it averages 4.8m wide and 1.6m deep below external ground level; a stream skirts the bank at N and E. The bank, of earth and stone composition, has an external height of 1.7m and an internal height of 1.3m. It averages 1.4m wide, and an area of external stone facing at NW may be of recent date. The interior of the site is heavily overgrown and is traversed by further trackways. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 466. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynahow Beg, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballynahow Beg

Area

337,009 m² (33.7 ha, 83.28 acres)

Civil parish

Killinane, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Castlequin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

583 people lived in 225 households in the Castlequin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derreenmoria, Dromtea, Foilmore, Gortmore, Teeraha

Placenames

Ballynahow Beg 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.