Ballynabrennagh Lower

Area

62,077 m² (6.21 ha, 15.34 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

Ballynabrennagh Lower

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.

• KE029-042001 Church
  Description

  Church ruins in the townland of Ballynabrennagh Upper (Baile na mBreatnach Uachtarach), parish of Ratass, diocese of Ardfert, barony of Trughanacmy. Depicted on the 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular church standing on S quadrant of small circular-shaped earthwork (KE029-042002-) shown with a dotted outline. Church ruins described in 1841 as; 'In the townland of Baile na mBreathnach (Ballybranagh) in this parish are shown the foundations of an old church which was thirty one feet [9.5m] in length and fifteen feet [4.6m] in breadth. Its site is pointed out in the middle of a green field, but no name is preserved for it. It was probably a small chapel' (O'Donovan 1983, 62). According to the Ordnance Survey Name Books, the walls of which stood; 'about 3 ft. [0.9m] high placed in the centre of a circular spot about 2 chains in diameter encompassed by a fosse or old stone ditch. Infants are to said to be sometimes interred in it' (OSNB Parish of Ratass, 43). Hickson (1880, 362-3) recorded that 'Lismore House occupying part of its site; a little to the east of the house are the ruins of two or three tiny oratories or churches (KE029-043----), and a well called Tubbernataggart, i.e. "the priest's well"; but the grass-grown foundations, with a few scattered stones, are all that remain of the former, since an enterprising Scotch (Lowland) farmer carted away the rest of the sacred buildings a few years ago to build his fences, although there was a limestone quarry near at hand'. The Minute Book of the Co. Kerry Field Club (02 March 1940, Vol. 1, 85-6) recorded the following; 'the party were able to distinguish the foundation of a small church which has been demolished. This was a stone built edifice orientated and appears to have been about the same type of building and about the same size as that at Killelton [KE037-025002-] in the Camp district. The church appears to have been built within the ring of a fort as the circle of the fort is easily discernible in the field though dug out. The party interviewed a man who assisted at the demolishing of the building and he informed them that human bones were unearthed in the digging. bones [were found] in two places in the field, particularly at a spot fifty yards to the north West of the site and also close by the site on the South side. In the walls of the out-offices and gate pillars in the vicinity the party were able to distinguish several stones from the church, particularly window stones which had been prepared and the bear the mark decoration peculiar tot he period. The cap or lintel stone of the window was also found it is not flat as at Killelton but an effort had been made to give it a curved or arched appearance'. Listed by Hurley (1979, 93) as 'Templeone' which is an earthwork (KE029-043----) located 240m to ENE. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 June 2022

• KE029-042002 Graveyard
  Description

  Depicted on the 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular church (KE029-042002-) standing on S quadrant of small circular-shaped earthwork (KE029-042002-) shown with a dotted outline. According to the Ordnance Survey Name Books, the walls of which stood; 'about 3 ft. [0.9m] high placed in the centre of a circular spot about 2 chains [40m] in diameter encompassed by a fosse or old stone ditch. Infants are to said to be sometimes interred in it' (OSNB Parish of Ratass, 43). Earthwork depicted on 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map may have the been the boundary ditch of a burial ground associated with the church which was later reused as a children's burial ground. Outline of earthwork visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 June 2022

• KE029-042003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Depicted on the 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular church (KE029-042002-) standing on S quadrant of small circular-shaped earthwork (KE029-042002-) shown with a dotted outline. According to the Ordnance Survey Name Books, the walls of which stood; 'about 3 ft. [0.9m] high placed in the centre of a circular spot about 2 chains in diameter encompassed by a fosse or old stone ditch. Infants are to said to be sometimes interred in it' (OSNB Parish of Ratass, 43). Minute Book of the Co. Kerry Field Club (02 March 1940, Vol. 1, 85) - recorded that human bones were found in the field with the church (KE029-042001-) and enclosure (KE029-042002-). Earthwork depicted on 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map may have the been the boundary ditch of a burial ground associated with the church which was later reused as a children's burial ground. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 June 2022

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 10 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_148 (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.

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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.