# Gortalassa, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Molahiffe, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 671,063 m² (67.11 ha, 165.82 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,783 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Molahiffe, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/molahiffe.md
- Barony: Magunihy
- Electoral division: Molahiffe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23679
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71489
- Centre: latitude 52.160367, longitude -9.589493 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortalassa, from 197 m² to 158,540 m² (15.85 ha, 39.18 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1182717: 158,540 m² (15.85 ha, 39.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1182717.md
- Parcel 1224849: 153,908 m² (15.39 ha, 38.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1224849.md
- Parcel 1223027: 151,494 m² (15.15 ha, 37.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223027.md
- Parcel 1159671: 68,916 m² (6.89 ha, 17.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1159671.md
- Parcel 1160252: 36,668 m² (3.67 ha, 9.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1160252.md
- Parcel 1180612: 31,896 m² (3.19 ha, 7.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1180612.md
- Parcel 1226362: 20,264 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1226362.md
- Parcel 1198352: 10,578 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1198352.md
- Parcel 4439096: 7,189 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4439096.md
- Parcel 1186687: 5,783 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1186687.md
- Parcel 1193227: 5,749 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193227.md
- Parcel 4296474: 4,368 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4296474.md
- Parcel 1151915: 4,261 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151915.md
- Parcel 1184206: 3,705 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184206.md
- Parcel 1214359: 2,675 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214359.md
- Parcel 1233182: 1,918 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1233182.md
- Parcel 1231359: 1,551 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1231359.md
- Parcel 1142697: 1,413 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1142697.md
- Parcel 1179289: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1179289.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- KE048-054: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE048-054----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE048-055----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE048-055001-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_167.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortalassa-71489.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortalassa-71489.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortalassa-71489.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gortalassa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballybane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballybane.md
- Corbally: https://everytownland.com/kerry/corbally-70874.md
- Fieries: https://everytownland.com/kerry/fieries-71314.md
- Gortdromerillagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortdromerillagh.md
- Rossmore: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rossmore.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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