Ballymacquin Upper

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacquin Upper, from 286 m² to 317,784 m² (31.78 ha, 78.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Ballymacquin Upper 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.

• 19 Jan 2026N/a

  permission to (a) demolish existing cottage on site (b) build a private single storey dwelling with attic accommodation (c) decommission existing septic tank and install a tertiary treatment system and infiltration/treatment area

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660025

• 17 Dec 2025N/a

  Invalid: permission to (a) demolish existing cottage on site (b) build a private single storey dwelling with attic accommodation (c) decommission existing septic tank and install a tertiary treatment system and infiltration/treatment area

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561183

• 4 Nov 2025N/a

  permission to (a) demolish existing cottage on site (b) build a private single storey dwelling with attic accommodation (c) decommission existing septic tank and install a tertiary treatment system and infiltration/treatment area

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561023

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

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

• KE020-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 16.6m N-S, 14m E-W This platform rath consists of a raised circular area enclosed by a wide, steep fosse. Immediately N of this site a fieldbank runs in an E-W direction and another fieldbank running N-S cuts through the fosse in the E sector. The raised area rises to a maximum of 2.3m above the enclosing fosse. The well-defined, wide, steep, U-shaped enclosing fosse is 2.2m-6m in width and on average 1.8m below the height of 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. 675. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE020-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 25m N-S, 23m E-W This bivallate rath is situated two fields SE of KE020-003----. It consists of a sub-circular space enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The well-defined inner bank is c 5m wide and rises to 1.2m above the interior and 2m-3.2m above the fosse. The U-shaped fosse encloses the whole site and is on average 3.8m wide. The outer earthen bank is on average 4.2m wide and rises to 2m above the fosse and on average 1.6m above the external ground level. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land and contains at least five small mounds; these could be the remains of a souterrain (KE020-004001-) since 'cave' is marked on the 1842 OS map. The mounds in the interior would appear to be constructed of stone. The overall external diameter of the rath N-S and E-W is 50m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 676. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE020-004001 Souterrain
  Description

  The interior [of ringfort (KE020-004----)] is at a higher level than the surrounding land and contains at least five small mounds; these could be the remains of a souterrain (KE020-004001-) since 'cave' is marked on the 1842 OS map. The mounds in the interior would appear to be constructed of stone. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 676. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 25 September 2013

• KE020-083 Earthwork
  Description

  In grassland. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a ditch is visible on Google Earth orthoimages and on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13. See attached orthophoto Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 11 July 2022

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymacquin Upper.

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 Ballymacquin Upper, 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_57 (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.

No address of the register names Ballymacquin Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Ballymacquin Upper · Baile Mhic Cuinn Uachtarach

Area

810,228 m² (81.02 ha, 200.21 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfert, 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

Ballinprior, Ballymacquin Lower, Clooncreestane, Garrynaneaskagh, Kill

Placenames

Ballymacquin Upper 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.