Gortahoosh

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortahoosh, from 58 m² to 332,071 m² (33.21 ha, 82.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Gortahoosh 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.

• 15 Aug 2024Refused

  (1) CONSTRUCT 1 NR DWELLING HOUSE, ATTACHED GRANNY FLAT, ACCESS ROAD AND PROPRIETARY TREATMENT UNIT AND INFILTRATION AREA, ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24329

• 22 Nov 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct a domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360352

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH GARAGE (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21351

• 30 May 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, ATTACHED GRANNY FLAT, INSTALL A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19570

• 16 May 2018Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED, EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SHED ALL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18458

• 12 May 2017N/a

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND PRIVATE SHED AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 17434

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE067-114 Bridge
  Description

  A NW-SE road bridge spanning the Flesk River. It is built of random rubble and has five segmental arches with narrow roughly shaped voussoirs. There are four low cut-stone pointed cutwaters on the upstream side of the piers and vertical stone coping on the parapets. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE067-116 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Built into a slope on the S bank of the Flesk River. The kiln has a random rubble N-facing front wall (H c. 3.8m; Wth 3.2m) with a central arched recess (H 2m; Wth 1.45m; D 1.65m) with sloping slabs to the rear. Two walls (max. H 1.9m), which retain the slope, abut the front of the kiln at right angles to it at either side of the recess. The top of the kiln is inaccessible. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE067-170 Standing stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, 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_283 (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.

• Gortahoosh, Glenflesk7 sales

Name

Gortahoosh · Gort an Chuais

Area

1,231,465 m² (123.15 ha, 304.3 acres)

Civil parish

Killaha, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Brewsterfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Brewsterfield electoral division: 805 people in 281 households; 89% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brewsterfield, Cloghane, Killaha, Oldforge, Shronaboy, Tullaha

Placenames

Gortahoosh 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.