Gortahoonig

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortahoonig, from 30 m² to 229,826 m² (22.98 ha, 56.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Gortahoonig 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.

• 17 Oct 2024Conditional

  (1) RETAIN ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELING, AND (2) RETAIN EXENSIONS AS CONSTRUCTED TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24397

• 19 Jul 2023Conditional

  (i) RETAIN RENOVATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO DWELLING HOUSE AND TO RETAIN SHED ALL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES (ii) RETAIN FRONT BOUNDARY WALL

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23821

• 29 Oct 2020Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT FAMILY FLAT EXTENTION TO EXISTING DWELLING, COMPRISING OF EXTENSION TO REAR, PORCH TO FRONT, VELUX WINDOWS TO EXISITNG DWELLING (B) INSTALL NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH SOIL POLISHING PERCOLATION AREA (C) PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE EXISTING PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED SHED TO REAR OF PROPERTY (D) PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201030

• 12 Nov 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING AS WELL AS A SEPARATE GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 191153

• 5 Feb 2019Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING AND POLYTUNNEL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES(B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT FAMILY FLAT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING COMPRISING OF EXTENSION TO REAR, PORCH TO FRONT , VELUX WINDOWS TO EXISTING DWELLING , REPLACE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH A WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS(C) CONSTRUCT SHED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1999

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortahoonig.

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_240 (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.

• Gortahoonig, Muckross5 sales

Name

Gortahoonig · Gort an Chúnaigh

Area

340,885 m² (34.09 ha, 84.23 acres)

Civil parish

Killarney, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

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

Ardagh, Gortagullane, Killegy Lower, Scartlea

Placenames

Gortahoonig 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.