Gortalicka

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortalicka, from 507 m² to 1,117,384 m² (111.74 ha, 276.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortalicka 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 Gortalicka 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

• 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

• KE076-016 Hut site
  Description

  In pasture, on a W-facing slope with occasional rock outcrops, in the valley of the Slievenaneav stream. The remains of an oval hut (4m E-W; 2.75m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.4m). Large stones are visible at the base of the wall. Rubble is scattered along the perimeter of the hut. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE076-038 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a W-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Slievenaneav stream. A wedge-shaped gallery (L 3m; Wth 1.9m at the W end; Wth 1.4m at the E end), aligned ENE-WSW, consists of a single capstone resting on sidestones. There is a single sidestone on either side of the gallery, each one leaning inwards. The single capstone has a mound of field-clearance material on top of it and it is partially obscured by overgrowth. The E end is closed by an inset backstone. A stone slab (L 0.95m; T 0.2m; H 1m) stands near the N side of the entrance and may have formed part of a portico. Another wedge tomb (KE076-056---) lies c. 400m to the E. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE086-008 Standing stone
  Description

  On a level area of extensive cutaway bog. This standing stone (dims. 0.55m x 0.37m; H 1m) is diamond-shaped in plan and rectangular in shape and orientated NE-SW. 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 Gortalicka.

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

At the centre of the townland of Gortalicka, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Gortalicka with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Gortalicka

Area

2,489,582 m² (248.96 ha, 615.19 acres)

Civil parish

Killaha, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Clydagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

125 people lived in 49 households in the Clydagh electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derreenacullig, Dromavrauka, Gortalee, Gortnakilla, Inchee

Placenames

Gortalicka 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.