Gortalassa

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortalassa, from 197 m² to 158,540 m² (15.85 ha, 39.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Gortalassa 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gortalassa in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortalassa.

Recorded monuments

• KE048-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SW-facing slope. A roughly semicircular area (15.4m NW-SE) defined by a curving bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m) SW-NE and by a field boundary along its straight SE side (L 28m). A slight indication of a fosse is evident along the WNW arc. The interior slopes down to the ESE. The rath is outlined on the 1846 and 1897 OS 6-inch maps as a semicircular area (c. 18m NW-SE) with the straight SE side (L c. 30m) formed by a field boundary. It is probably the rath, 'which is not known by any particular name', which was recorded in Gortalassa townland in the 1840s (OSNB, Molahiffe, no. 1, 17). (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE048-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a NW-facing slope. This rath has been levelled. The remains of an earthen bank is clearly evident, along the W, NW, N and SSE arcs, enclosing a circular area (34m N-S; c. 34m E-W). The bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.4m) along the SSE arc is skirted externally by a linear field boundary. A linear NNW-SSE field boundary defines the NE sector. The interior is level. A stone located immediately inside the bank at WNW may cover a souterrain (KE048-055001-). This is the 'remarkably large' rath recorded in Gortalassa in the 1840s and 'from which the townland derives its name' (OSNB, Molahiffe, no. 1, 17). It is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as an oval area (c. 60m E-W; c. 50m N-S) with field boundaries extending from the bank at N, ESE, SSE and S. On the 1897 OS 6-inch map it is indicated as the remains of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) truncated at NE and SW by linear field boundaries. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE048-055001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE048-055----). A large sandstone boulder (L 3.3m; 0.8m x T 0.8m) covers a hollow, immediately inside the bank of the rath at WNW. There are numerous loose stones in the hollow, some of which appear to form drystone walling. The landowner recalls his father stating that it was almost possible for an adult to stand up in the hollow. According to the landowner, the cross, sword, harp and shamrock faintly engraved on the WSW end of the stone were done by a local man in the early years of the 20th century. In the 1840s, a 'large cavern' with a 'large stone about 12 feet [3.65m] in length lying flat over the entrance' was recorded in the W side of the rath (OSNB, Molahiffe, no. 1, 42). (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) 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 Gortalassa.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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_167 (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 Gortalassa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Gortalassa

Area

671,063 m² (67.11 ha, 165.82 acres)

Civil parish

Molahiffe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Molahiffe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Molahiffe electoral division: 1,718 people in 611 households; 79% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybane, Corbally, Fieries, Gortdromerillagh, Rossmore

Placenames

Gortalassa 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.