Glanballyma, County Kerry


Glanballyma, is a townland of County Kerry, Ireland.
It is one of the sixteen original townlands of the civil parish of Kilflynn. Its southern border is formed by the river Shannow. The area covers 169.29 hectares of rural land.

Archaeology and history

Glanballyma contains thirteen archaeological sites that are recognised as National Monuments: three are enclosures : ; five are ringforts ; one is listed as a fulacht fiadh ; one is a kiln ; one is a standing stone ; one is a souterrain ; one is listed as a burnt mound.
Lime kilns are common to the area for agriculture to counter acidic soils, souterrains are associated with the Iron Age and some nearby metalworks date back to the Bronze Age.
Thomas Stack, of the Stack family which had its seat at Crotta, owned Glanballyma and neighbouring townlands. Because of their support for the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Catholic Confederation, the Stacks' land was declared forfeit following the Act for the Settlement of Ireland in 1652. After the Act of Settlement of 1662, Glanballyma was granted to Henry Ponsonby in 1666. Ponsonby was a soldier, in Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, one of many rewarded with Irish land for service or in lieu of wages.

Representation

Glanballyma is in the Roman Catholic parish of Abbeydorney, whose priest is the Very Reverend Denis O’Mahony and who takes services at Abbeydorney and Kilflynn.
The townland is in the parliamentary constituency of Kerry, returning five Teachtaí Dála to Dáil Éireann.