Gortacollopa
Townland in the civil parish of Aghadoe, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 86.8 ha
- 214 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 3,664 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortacollopa, from 54 m² to 213,155 m² (21.32 ha, 52.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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
No zone of a development plan covers Gortacollopa 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Oct 2024Conditional
Planning Permission is sought by Carey Architects, on behalf of Declan and Aisling Buckley for (a) demolition of 2 no. single storey bay windows to rear, (b) forming 2 no. new windows to side (north-west) and 1 no. new window to side (south-east), (c) construction of single storey extensions to rear, including alterations to existing roof to suit, (d) new roof light to side (north-west), (e) new on site waste water treatment system and (f) all associated site works at site at Oakleigh, Gortacollopa, Fossa, Killarney, Co. Kerry, V93 R248.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460784
20 Apr 2021Conditional
(A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY GARAGE STRUCTURE TO WEST OF OUR EXISTING DWELLING (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTH AND A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST OF OUR EXISTING DWELLING (C) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES (D) INTERNAL ALTERATIONS (E) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ON OUR SITE AND PERMISSION FOR DECOMMISSIONING EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21421
26 Oct 2017Conditional
(A) RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND REVISED ROOF RIDGE HEIGHT AND (B) TO RETAIN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171069
22 Mar 2017Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT ONE AND A HALF STOREY FAMILY FLAT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND (B) REPLACE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING AREA (C) RETENTION OF CONSERVATORY AND EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17241
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 Gortacollopa.
Recorded monuments
- KE066-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a S-facing slope with views S to Macgillucuddy's Reeks. This rath is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. It is evident as a circular area (diam. 23m) defined by traces of a levelled earthen bank (Wth c. 7m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.15m) SW-NE and by intermittent traces of a bank NE-SW. The interior is under pasture and slopes down to the S. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortacollopa.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortacollopa.
- 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
No address of the register names Gortacollopa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Gortacollopa
- Area
- 867,798 m² (86.78 ha, 214.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghadoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Lahard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lahard electoral division: 741 people in 263 households; 87% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Gortacollopa 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.