Ballyspillane
Ballyspillane is a townland in the civil parish of Killarney, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Spealáin.
Parcel 1230609
- Area
- 122 m²
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 152 m².
- Zoning
- R2 Existing Residential (Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028)) The objective
- Townland
- Ballyspillane
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 1 recorded monument.
- KE067-083 Ringfort - rath
Description
In a recreation area, in a housing estate on the E outskirts of Killarney. This possible rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), with the perimeter planted with trees, on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. Little remains of it apart from a low N-S earthen bank (L 56m), against which large stones have been placed, which may incorporate elements of it. The S end of this bank (Wth 5.1m; H 0.8m) curves slightly. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
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 gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_238 (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
- 11.9 ha
- 29 acres
- Land parcels
- 157
- registered freehold, median 180 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
157 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyspillane, from 89 m² to 80,095 m² (8.01 ha, 19.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 168 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Landscape protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Industrial, Enterprise, Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Killarney Municipal District Settlements' Plan (Variation 2 Kerry CDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Ballyspillane 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyspillane.
Recorded monuments
- KE067-083 Ringfort - rath
Description
In a recreation area, in a housing estate on the E outskirts of Killarney. This possible rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), with the perimeter planted with trees, on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. Little remains of it apart from a low N-S earthen bank (L 56m), against which large stones have been placed, which may incorporate elements of it. The S end of this bank (Wth 5.1m; H 0.8m) curves slightly. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyspillane.
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 Ballyspillane, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_238 (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
- Ballyspillane, Killarney22 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyspillane · Baile Uí Spealáin
- Area
- 118,820 m² (11.88 ha, 29.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killarney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Killarney Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 7,735 people lived in 2,446 households in the Killarney Rural electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycasheen, Park, Teernaboul
- Placenames
- Ballyspillane 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.