Gortacrossane

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortacrossane, from 542 m² to 243,010 m² (24.3 ha, 60.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortacrossane 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.

• 20 Mar 2023Conditional

  RETAIN PORCH AT FRONT OF DWELLING

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23290

• 17 Feb 2022Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22165

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• KE010-038 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situation and Description: This was a small pool of clear water in an open field. Trees formerly surrounded the well (Ó Danachair 1958, 161). No surface trace of this well can be seen today. Rounds/Offerings: The water cured sore eyes and rags were left as offerings. Legend: The well moved when clothes were washed in it. Folklore collected from Drommurrin School recorded the following tradition about this well known locally as Tobair na Giolláin; ‘There is a well situated in Mrs. David Dillons farm at this day the well goes by the name of Tobair na Giolláin the people say the English of it is the well of the flies. At first the well was situated near a hedge in the field but one morning a woman rinched [rinsed] clothes in it and when the people came to the well it was dried up but it sprang up about four perches from the place. The people are still taking water out of it but the old people always said it was a blessed well’ (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0401, Pages 426-7; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4666579/4663630). A second story collected from the same school recorded the following folklore; 'There is a well situated in the townland of Gortacrissane in the farm of a man named Patrick Dillon. It was supposed to remove to its present location in by gone days. At one time it was a holy well where people came long distances to pay rounds for sore eyes. My father told me previous to its removal a woman from Dromerin named Mary O'Donnell washed clothes in the well and on the following morning the well had disappeared from its farmer to its present position. This is about five hundred yds. To my fathers memory he witnessed a woman paying rounds for intention mentioned. He also had had seen the trees that surrounded it with relics left behind by those who patronised it. About seventy or eighty yards from this well is a Fort or Lios [KE010-053---] what it represents he do not know. Though I have often heard that the fairy wind directs its course even across fields in the direction of this Fort' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0401, Pages 429-30;https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4666579/4663633). Folklore collected from Listowel School recorded the following tradition; 'Situated near the gate in the Clover Field Gortacussane. People were in the habit of paying visits and making rounds to this well. A woman came early one morning and washed clothes in it. On coming the following morning to draw water, she was amazed to find that the well had removed mysteriously to the other end of the field, a short distance from the fort. It may be seen there to this day' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0405, Page 380; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4613714/4611562/4658522?ChapterID=4613714). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 901. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Caimin O’Brien Date of revised upload: 17 May 2022

• KE010-053 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841-42 OS map as a circular enclosure, only a tiny section of this site appears on the later edition of 1939. No visible trace survives today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 1049. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortacrossane.

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).

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_178 (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.

No address of the register names Gortacrossane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Gortacrossane · Gort an Chrosáin

Area

1,586,105 m² (158.61 ha, 391.94 acres)

Civil parish

Listowel, and its townlands

Barony

Iraghticonnor

Electoral division

Ennismore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ennismore electoral division: 559 people in 222 households; 89% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beennameelane, Derra West, Dromloughra, Drommurrin, Gortcurreen, Inch-Moor

Placenames

Gortacrossane 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.