Gortaleen

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaleen, from 105 m² to 106,252 m² (10.63 ha, 26.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Gortaleen 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.

• 8 Mar 2017Conditional

  BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, SERVED WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17199

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: Slieve Mish Mountains SAC 002185
• Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
• Special Protection Area: Castlemaine Harbour SPA 004029
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE046-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Ringfort described by John Curran of the OPW as a lios which 'has only one circle four [1.2m] or five feet [1.5m] high the other circle is effaced. The diameter is ninety feet [30m]' (SMR File). Depicted as a circular shaped ringfort in NW corner of field intersected at W by a field boundary running N-S and at N by a field boundary running E-W on 1841 ed. OSi 6-inch map. On the revised ed. 1892 OSi 25-inch map the ringfort is depicted as a semi-circular shaped earthwork truncated at N by field boundary running roughly E-W. Poorly preserved outline of scrub-covered earthwork (diam. c 29m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 15/04/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 May 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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

Name

Gortaleen

Area

1,159,425 m² (115.94 ha, 286.5 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgarrylander, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Kilgarrylander, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilgarrylander electoral division: 694 people in 260 households; 90% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyarkane Eighter, Ballyarkane Oughter, Fybagh, Gortaleen-Mountain

Placenames

Gortaleen 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.