Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Ballybunion

Planning applications inside the Ballybunion, Co. Kerry settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications
218
County
Kerry

What the data shows

The planning register for Ballybunion contains a total of 218 applications, with recent lodgements showing 24 applications in 2023, 20 in 2024, and 22 in 2025. Since 2016, there have been 179 applications granted, refused, or part-granted, resulting in an 87% grant rate with 155 granted, 24 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are new dwellings at 29%, extensions at 22%, retentions at 19%, and changes of use at 7%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include permissions for installing a dormer window to the rear of a house, altering an existing dwelling, changing a design under a previous permission, altering opes, changing a design to a single storey extension, and demolishing a chimney stack.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

87%

of 179 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
155
Refused
24
No decision recorded
39

Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.

What’s being built

New dwelling
29%
Extension
22%
Retention
19%
Change of use
7%
Alterations
7%
Housing estate
4%

Grant rate by category

How each kind of application has been decided in Ballybunion, 2016–2026.

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
New dwelling84%5082%
Extension92%3995%
Retention85%3490%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Categories with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Ballybunion

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Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann). Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.