Gortaneden
Gortaneden is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgarrylander, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 360.9 ha
- 892 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 4,247 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaneden, from 76 m² to 2,784,584 m² (278.46 ha, 688.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortaneden 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Sept 2026N/a
to (a) extend existing dwelling house to rear to create new two-storey living accommodation, (b) Carry out ancillary site works to include a new distribution chamber adjacent to existing septic tank and percolation area, (c) retention permission to retain existing bay window to eastern elevation of existing dwelling house at our property
Retention · Kerry County Council, 26142
27 Aug 2025Conditional
COSTRUCT A COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND INCLUDING ASSSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 25223
25 Oct 2024Conditional
(A) RETAIN EXISTING DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND DETACHED GLASS HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO (A) DEMOLISH EXISTING FIRST FLOOR OF EXISTING REAR EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A NEW TREATMENT UNIT WITH POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE THE DEVELOPMENT, (C) RENOVATE AND EXTEND EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, WITH THE NEW EXTENSION AND PART OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO BECOME A DWELLING HOUSE FOR THE APPLICANTS AND THE REMAINDER OF THE EXISTING DWELILNG HOUSE TO BECOME A LIVING QUARTERS/GRANNY FLAT FOR THE APPLICANTS PARENTS, (D) CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24403
4 Sept 2024Conditional
Retention Permission to retain existing garage/shed as constructed.
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460660
15 Dec 2023Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a a Single Storey Extension to Castledrum National School, consisting of a mainstream classroom, a single classroom special education needs unit and associated facilities, a new vehicular entrance with associated on site parking facilities and all associated site services all at Castledrum National School, Castledrum, Keel, Castlemaine, Co. Kerry V93DF79
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2360416
28 Feb 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT (A) A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PV SOLAR PANELS ON THE ROOF (B) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23217
24 Jul 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING SCHOOL INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19792
2 Feb 2017Conditional
ERECT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, SERVED BY SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1778
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Mish Mountains SAC 002185
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortaneden.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortaneden.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Gortaneden, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_75 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gortaneden with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Gortaneden
- Area
- 3,609,291 m² (360.93 ha, 891.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgarrylander, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Kilgarrylander, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 694 people lived in 260 households in the Kilgarrylander electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherfealane, Castledrum, Corkaboy, Curraheen, Lassaboy, Ross
- Placenames
- Gortaneden 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.