Ballymullen
Townland in the civil parish of Ratass, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish Baile an Mhuilinn
Parcel 2960100
- Area
- 230 m²
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it, 126 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- R2 Existing Residential (Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028)) The objective
- Townland
- Ballymullen
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
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- No susceptibility class on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_128 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
- 16.2 ha
- 40 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 299 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymullen, from 26 m² to 59,467 m² (5.95 ha, 14.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 26 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S2Health and Related (Health and related)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Industrial, Enterprise, Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S4General Public Administration (General public administration)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Mixed/general 'green'/recreational/conservation, other (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 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
18 Jun 2025Conditional
retention permission to retain (a) the demolition of 3 No. existing buildings and (b) the construction of a lean-to-roof at his lands at Murphy's Terrace, Ballymullen, Tralee, Co. Kerry
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560521
10 Sept 2024Conditional
planning permission to demolish two number existing storage silo and to construct two number silo for the storage of raw milk products and all associated site works, all at Ballymullen Tralee, Co. Kerry
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460675
16 Jul 2024N/a
Invalid SN: planning permission to demolish the existing storage silo and to construct a two number silo for the storage of raw milk products and all associated site works, all at Ballymullen Tralee, Co. Kerry
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460466
23 Apr 2024N/a
Planning permission to demolish the existing storage silo and to construct two number silo for storage of raw milk products and associated site works on the premises at Ballymullen Tralee Co. Kerry
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460244
3 Feb 2023Conditional
EXTEND THE A-ROOFED PORTAL FRAME STYLE BUILDING FOR STORAGE/DISPATCH ON OUR PREMISES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 23103
6 Dec 2022N/a
EXTEND THE A-ROOFED PORTAL FRAME STYLE BUILDING FOR STORAGE /DISPATCH ON OUR PREMISES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 221268
18 Oct 2022N/a
EXTEND THE A-ROOFED PORTAL FRAME STYLE BUILDING FOR STORAGE/DISPATCH ON OUR PREMISES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 221087
12 Aug 2022Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A WAREHOUSE UNIT WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO REMOVE SECTION OF NORTH BOUNDARY WALL WHICH IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE FROM ADJOINING PROPERTY
Permission · Kerry County Council, 22848
13 May 2022Conditional
INSTALL SOLAR PV CONSISTING OF C.334KW OF ROOF MOUNTED SOLAR PANELS ACROSS 4 ROOFS AND C.502KW OF GROUND MOUTNED SOLAR PANELS AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22503
14 Jan 2022Conditional
1. DEMOLISH HOUSES NO'S 1, 2, 3 & 4, BALLYMULLEN ROAD, TRALEE. 2. CONSTRUCT A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF 30 NO. DWELLINGS COMPRISING: (I) FOUR 2½ STOREY DETACHED HOUSES, (II) TWO TERRACES OF THREE 2½ STOREY HOUSES AND (III) TWO TERRACES OF FOUR 2½ STOREY HOUSES, (IV) TWELVE APARTMENTS IN THREE DETACHED 3 STOREY BUILDIGNS. (3) CONSTRUCT A NEW VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS/EGRESS AT BALLYMULLEN ROAD TO SERVE THE PROPOSED DEVELPMENT. 4. CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS NECESSARY TO FACILITATE THE PROPSOSED DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 30 homes · Kerry County Council, 2217
28 Oct 2020Conditional
CHANGE USE FROM EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A PRE-SCHOOL
Permission · Kerry County Council, 201027
21 Oct 2020Conditional
EXTEND THE A ROOFED PORTAL FRAME STYLE BUILDING FOR STORAGE/DISPATCH
Permission · Kerry County Council, 201005
9 Sept 2020N/a
EXTEND THE A-ROOFED PORTAL FRAME STYLE BUILDING FOR STORAGE/DISPATCH
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20822
15 Mar 2019Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF USE OF THE PREMISES KNOWN AS NANCY MYLES PUBLIC HOUSE TO 4 NR RESIDENTIAL UNITS INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF NEW WINDOWS TO THE NORTH-EAST AND NEW WINDOWS AND DOORS TO THE SOUTH-WEST AND SOUTH-EAST ELEVATIONS; (2) THE REMOVAL OF EXISITING REAR BOUNDARY WALL TO ALLOW FOR PROVISION OF CAR PARK SPACES
Permission, 4 homes · Kerry County Council, 19258
13 Nov 2017Conditional
FOR AN A-ROOFED PORTAL FRAME STYLE BUILDING FOR STORAGE / DISPATCH ON OUR PREMISES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 171130
12 Jul 2017Conditional
FOR CHANGE OF USE OF PART THE PREMISES KNOWN AS NANCY MYLES PUBLIC HOUSE TO 4 RESIDENTIAL UNITS INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF NEW WINDOWS TO NORTH WEST ELEVATION & NEW WINDOWS & DOORS TO SOUTH EAST ELEVATION ,(2) THE REMOVAL OF EXISTING REAR BOUNDARY WALL TO ALLOW FOR PROVISION OF CAR PARKING SPACES ALL AT
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17665
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 Ballymullen.
Recorded monuments
- KE029-163 Castle - tower house
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Tralee Infantry Barracks, barracks, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey officers quarters, built c. 1810, with three-bay two-storey extension to rear. Hipped natural slate roof with nap rendered chimneystacks, polygonal clayware pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone chimneystacks to extension. Roughcast rendered walls, with brick arched recess to extension and having limestone string courses at impost level. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Timber panelled door with toplight and ashlar limestone surround. Rubble stone boundary walls with limestone ashlar surrounds to openings and limestone piers with cast metal double leaf gates.
- Tralee Infantry Barracks, prison/jail, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey prison, built c. 1810, now in poor condition. Pitched natural slate roof with concrete barging to party walls, red brick chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and having limestone ashlar at eaves course. Nap rendered walls. Timber sliding sash windows with cast-iron grilles and stone sills. Timber panelled door with ashlar limestone surround. Segmental-arched openings with cast-iron grilles. Loop openings with ashlar limestone surrounds. Roger Casement reputedly held here.
- Tralee Infantry Barracks, officers' mess, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay two-storey over basement officer's quarters, built c. 1810, with extension to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof with nap rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and having timber bargeboards to gables. Flat roof to extension. Nap rendered walls. uPVC top-hung outward-opening and side-hung outward-opening windows with stone sills. Timber panelled door with toplight and ashlar limestone surround. Red brick wall of former building to rear.
- Tralee Infantry Barracks, hospital/infirmary, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey former hospital, built c. 1810, with single- and two-storey projections to front façade and having two-storey extension to rear. Now in use as dormitories. Pitched natural slate roof with ashlar limestone and nap rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, hipped natural slate roof to two-storey projections, single-pitched roof to single-storey projection and having ashlar limestone eaves course. Nap rendered walls. Broken render to rear shows limestone quoins and snecked ashlar sandstone. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Timber panelled door with toplight and ashlar limestone surround. Timber top-hung outward-opening windows to rear extension. Concrete steps up to rear front door.
- Tralee Infantry Barracks, barracks, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Attached two-bay two-storey former doctor's house, built c. 1840, attached to former military hospital. Hipped natural slate roof with red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills set in segmental-arched opening. Matchboard door to rear. Rubble limestone boundary wall to rear.
- Tralee Infantry Barracks, barracks, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Attached eight-bay single-storey former barrack, built c. 1850, with three-bay single-storey extension to gable. Now in use as public house. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Nap rendered walls. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Timber flush door with toplight and canopy above.
- Tralee Infantry Barracks, barracks, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Attached seven-bay single-storey dining hall, built c. 1850. Pitched double-span natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills. Timber matchboard door.
- Tralee Infantry Barracks, barracks, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Attached fifteen-bay two-storey barracks with adjoining single-bay two-storey block to left hand side, built c. 1810. Pitched natural slate roof with nap rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Nap rendered walls. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Timber matchboard doors with toplights and ashlar limestone surrounds. Existing structure is half of original soldiers quarters, other half of structure destroyed in 1921.
- Tralee Infantry Barracks, store/warehouse, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted three-bay single-storey former store, built c. 1900, now disused. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystacks, polygonal clayware pots and cast-iron metal. Red brick walls. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Timber flush doors with toplight.
- Castlemorris House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay three-storey over basement house, built c. 1830, with single- and two-storey extensions to rear. Formerly residence of army officer in neighbouring barracks. Hipped natural slate roof with nap rendered chimneystacks, polygonal clayware pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Single-pitched artificial slate roof to extensions. Nap rendered walls with render quoins. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Timber matchboard double leaf doors formerly surrounded by glazed timber porch with half glazed door. Bay windows to left hand side gable wall. Limestone steps up to front door. Roughcast rendered boundary walls with wrought-iron railings. Single-storey outbuildings to rear.
- Castlemorris, castle/fortified house, 1400–1500 · Regional interest
Description
Remains of Castle-Morris c. 1450, with later attached rubble stone walls c. 1840, forming boundary to Ballymullen Road.
- Castledesmond House, house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840, with single-bay single-storey extension to right hand side. Flat roof with render bands at eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and having pitched natural slate roof to extension. Nap rendered walls with render quoins. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills and render surround. Timber panelled door with sidelights and fanlight having render surround. Fixed timber window to round-arched opening to rear. Timber top-hung outward-opening and side-hung outward-opening windows to extension. Nap rendered plinth with wrought-iron railings and gate. Limestone steps and cast-metal railings up to back door.
- Castledesmond House, store/warehouse, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
Description
Detached eight-bay three-storey former warehouse, built c. 1870, now vacant. Pitched natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Nap rendered walls with cement rendered wall to rear gable and having metal bracing. Timber matchboard boarding to openings. Timber matchboard doors. Concrete boundary wall to rear.
- House, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay three-storey over basement former house, built c. 1835. Hipped artificial slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and nap rendered chimneystack. Cement rendered walls. Single and tripartite timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills. Timber half glazed door with side and fanlight. Dressed stone boundary walls with timber double leaf gates. Limestone steps to front door with wrought-iron railings.
- House, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1904, with vacant retail outlet to ground floor. Single and two-storey extensions to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof with cement rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Nap rendered walls with render quoins and painted timber shop sign. Timber top-hung outward-opening windows with stone sills and render surrounds. Timber panelled door with toplight and render surround. Timber fixed window and timber half glazed door with sidelights and toplight, having render surrounds and cornice above.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_128 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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
- Ballymullen, Tralee5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballymullen · Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 161,590 m² (16.16 ha, 39.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ratass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Tralee Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tralee Urban electoral division: 6,104 people in 2,758 households; 35% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherweesheen, Camp, Cloghers, Cloon Beg, Cloon More, Killierisk
- Placenames
- Ballymullen 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.