Gortadirra

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortadirra, from 19,108 m² (1.91 ha, 4.72 acres) to 1,925,766 m² (192.58 ha, 475.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Gortadirra 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.

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED SINGLE STOREY GARAGE, TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SINGLE STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING, NEW PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO REPLACE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK - ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21711

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Special Protection Area: Killarney National Park SPA 004038
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE066-141001 Hut site
  Description

  In rough heather-clad mountain pasture, on a break of a steep NE-facing slope with views NE over Lough Leane. The remains of a rectangular hut site (3.2m NW-SE; 2.1m NE-SW) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.5m). A boulder is incorporated into the wall at the N corner. Rubble from the collapsed wall is obscured by ferns and is scattered along the perimeter both internally and externally. Two other hut sites (KE066-141002-, KE066-141003-) are c. 75m to the S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE066-141002 Hut site
  Description

  In rough heather-clad mountain pasture, on the break of a steep NE-facing slope with views NE over Lough Leane. The remains of a rectangular hut site (3.1m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.45m). The lower courses of the wall are best preserved along the NE side. The level interior is obscured by moss-covered rubble and ferns. A hut site (KE066-141003-) is c. 6m to the W and another (KE066-141001-) is c. 75m to the N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE066-141003 Hut site
  Description

  In rough heather-clad mountain pasture, on the break of a steep NE-facing slope with views NE over Lough Leane. The remains of a rectangular hut site (3.1m N-S; 1.9m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.4m). The level interior is obscured by ferns. Rubble is spilling downslope externally from the SE corner. There is a hut site (KE066-141002-) c. 6m to the E and another (KE066-141001-) c. 75m to the N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE074-013 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  This flat-topped, approximately oval-shaped cairn is located on the rock strewn summit of Tomies mountain, which forms part of the E side of the Gap of Dunloe. This siting affords extensive views towards Castlemaine Harbour at NW and Lough Leane at SE, but views are restricted in other directions by mountainous terrain. Collapse from the cairn has spilled downslope on all sides except NW, where a circular shelter, 2.6m in diameter, is located. At NE an oval-shaped depression, 2m long and .6m deep, occurs on the surface of the cairn, which is elsewhere covered by a thin layer of peat. Remnants of crude stone facing survive at SW. The core of the cairn measures 12.2m NE-SW x 10.5m NW-SE and stands to a maximum height of 1.9m at SE. The spill of cairn material has an overall average diameter of 16m. This monument and the following site may perhaps be identified as the 'two sepulchral heaps of stone near each other on the summit of Tomies mountain' noted by Cusack (1871, 426). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 390. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE074-014 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  This small rectangular cairn, of dubious antiquity, is located c. 300m E of KE074-013---- on a lower peak of Tomies mountain. It measures 3.8m NE-SW x 2.7m NW-SE, and stands .6m high. Constructed on an area of rock outcrop, it is largely composed of thin slabs and small stones. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 391. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortadirra.

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 Gortadirra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Gortadirra · Gort an Doire

Area

6,160,736 m² (616.07 ha, 1,522.35 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadoe, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Muckross, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Muckross electoral division: 881 people in 229 households; 69% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlough, Cullinagh, Doogary, Dunloe Upper, Tomies East, Tomies West, Tomies Wood

Placenames

Gortadirra 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.