# Gortaspiddale, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardfert, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Gort an Spidéil. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 103,957 m² (10.4 ha, 25.69 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 635 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardfert, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/ardfert.md - Barony: Clanmaurice - Electoral division: Ardfert, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24315 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71505 - Centre: latitude 52.32243, longitude -9.776301 (WGS 84) ## 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); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1225186: 51,227 m² (5.12 ha, 12.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225186.md - Parcel 1151746: 8,365 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151746.md - Parcel 5859230: 3,974 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5859230.md - Parcel 1199199: 1,920 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1199199.md - Parcel 1244473: 1,733 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244473.md - Parcel 1212220: 1,371 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1212220.md - Parcel 1245166: 1,349 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245166.md - Parcel 1238813: 1,249 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1238813.md - Parcel 1184451: 1,223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184451.md - Parcel 5498632: 1,171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5498632.md - Parcel 1160119: 1,115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1160119.md - Parcel 1241314: 1,081 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1241314.md - Parcel 1213112: 903 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213112.md - Parcel 1141182: 894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1141182.md - Parcel 1228150: 875 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1228150.md - Parcel 1224019: 829 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1224019.md - Parcel 1200663: 821 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1200663.md - Parcel 1217789: 635 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1217789.md - Parcel 1204620: 565 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1204620.md - Parcel 1201882: 556 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1201882.md - Parcel 1201391: 482 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1201391.md - Parcel 1222484: 441 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222484.md - Parcel 1140424: 438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1140424.md - Parcel 1246506: 338 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246506.md - Parcel 1246065: 163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246065.md - Parcel 1216095: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1216095.md - Parcel 1186931: 140 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1186931.md - Parcel 1140695: 135 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1140695.md - Parcel 5005022: 120 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5005022.md - Parcel 1198857: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1198857.md - Parcel 1214517: 66 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214517.md - Parcel 1206691: 60 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1206691.md - Parcel 1219296: 35 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1219296.md - Parcel 5035389: 22 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5035389.md - Parcel 1201036: 6 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1201036.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing 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: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - M2 Town/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: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - S1 Education: Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry; 4 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - O1 Strategic Reserve, White Land (Strategic reserve, White land): Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - G4 Active 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: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - G3 Conservation, 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: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf - M1 Mixed 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: https://cdp.kerrycoco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Variation-No1-Tralee-MD-Settlements-Plan.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 27 Feb 2025, Kerry County Council 2560129: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560129/0 - 22 Aug 2024, Kerry County Council 2460594: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. The construction of a domestic shed including a clothes drying room. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460594/0 - 15 Aug 2022, Kerry County Council 22859: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/22859/0 - 23 Mar 2021, Kerry County Council 21301: Conditional. Permission. ALTER/MODIFY EXTERNAL FACADES AND FINISHES TO BUILDING AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSIONS 12/484 AND 129484. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/21301/0 - 2 May 2017, Kerry County Council 129484: Conditional. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/129484/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Gortaspiddale. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortaspiddale. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortaspiddale. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_71.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/gortaspiddale.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortaspiddale.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortaspiddale.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cloon Glebe: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cloon-glebe.md - Commons East: https://everytownland.com/kerry/commons-east.md - Farranwilliam: https://everytownland.com/kerry/farranwilliam.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortaspiddale - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/gortaspiddale