Gortaspiddale
Townland in the civil parish of Ardfert, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Gort an Spidéil
- Area
- 10.4 ha
- 26 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 635 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaspiddale, from 6 m² to 51,227 m² (5.12 ha, 12.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town/Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S1Education
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O1Strategic Reserve, White Land (Strategic reserve, White land)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Conservation, Amenity, Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Mixed Use, General Development (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Feb 2025Refused
permission to construct an apartment block consisting of 10 number two bedroom living units, served by associated car parking and an internal bicycle and wheeled bin store, the units shall be connected to all public services & also to include all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560129
22 Aug 2024Conditional
The construction of a domestic shed including a clothes drying room
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460594
15 Aug 2022Conditional
(1) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN 2 NO. EXISTING METAL CLAD STORAGE SHEDS,(2) PLANNING PERMISSION (A) TO CHANGE USE OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING INTO GRANNY FLAT; (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A REAR PORCH EXTENSION TO GRANNY FLAT; (C) CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSIONS, AND (D) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22859
23 Mar 2021Conditional
ALTER/MODIFY EXTERNAL FACADES AND FINISHES TO BUILDING AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSIONS 12/484 AND 129484
Permission · Kerry County Council, 21301
2 May 2017Conditional
DEMOLISH AN EXISTING STAFF TOILET AND TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY GENERAL PURPOSE ROOM COMPLETE WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION, INCLUDING NEW STAFF TOILET AND SERVERY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Extension of duration · Kerry County Council, 129484
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortaspiddale.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortaspiddale.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortaspiddale.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_71 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gortaspiddale with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Gortaspiddale · Gort an Spidéil
- Area
- 103,957 m² (10.4 ha, 25.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Ardfert, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardfert electoral division: 1,100 people in 424 households; 60% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloon Glebe, Commons East, Farranwilliam
- Placenames
- Gortaspiddale 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.