# Ballyhar

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**Ballyhar** () is a [townland](/source/Townland) and [electoral division](/source/Electoral_division_(Ireland)) in [County Kerry](/source/County_Kerry), Ireland.[1] Located in the [historical barony](/source/Barony_(Ireland)) of [Magunihy](/source/Magunihy) and in the [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_Ireland) of Kilcredane, the townland of Ballyhar has an area of approximately 1.2 square kilometres (0.5 sq mi).[2]

There are a number of ancient [ring fort](/source/Ring_fort) and [enclosure](/source/Enclosure_(archaeology)) sites in the townland.[3] The [Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) church in Ballyhar was built in the 1820s.[4][5] This church, the Church of the Sacred Heart, is in the ecclesiastical parish of [Firies](/source/Firies) in the [Roman Catholic Diocese of Kerry](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Kerry).[6] Local sports teams include an [association football](/source/Association_football) (soccer) club, Ballyhar Dynamos FC,[7] and Ballyhar-Firies GAA club.[8]

## References

1. ["Baile Uí Aichir/Ballyhar"](https://www.logainm.ie/ga/1412423). *logainm.ie*. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

1. ["Ballyhar Townland, Co. Kerry"](https://www.townlands.ie/kerry/magunihy/kilcredane/ballyhar/ballyhar/). *townlands.ie*. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

1. *Record of Monuments and Places - County Kerry*. Dublin: National Monuments and Historic Properties Service. 1998.

1. Lewis, Samuel (ed.) (1837). ["Kilcredane"](https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/K/Kilcredane-Magonihy-Kerry.php). *[A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland](/source/A_Topographical_Dictionary_of_Ireland)*. Dublin: Lewis. In the R, C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Fieries; the chapel at Ballyhar is a modern building

1. Lewis, Samuel (ed.) (1837). ["Aglish"](https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/A/Aglish-Magonihy-Kerry.php). *[A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland](/source/A_Topographical_Dictionary_of_Ireland)*. Dublin: Lewis. a chapel was built within the last fourteen years at Ballyhar

1. ["Firies – Diocese of Kerry"](https://www.dioceseofkerry.ie/parish/firies/). *dioceseofkerry.ie*. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

1. ["Ballyhar Dynamos - About"](https://www.ballyhardynamos.ie/about). *ballyhardynamos.ie*. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

1. Kilfeather, Vivion (29 June 2011). ["Kerry brothers take court action as GAA insists they play for parish club"](https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20159419.html). *Irish Examiner*. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

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