Gortavallig

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortavallig, from 178,067 m² (17.81 ha, 44 acres) to 495,555 m² (49.56 ha, 122.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Gortavallig 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 Gortavallig 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glanmore Lake 001354

Recorded monuments

• KE108-023 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In a rath (KE108-023001-). The interior of the rath, which is covered in overgrowth, is known locally as a 'Cillíneach'. Graves are marked by plain, uninscribed upright stone slabs generally orientated N-S. Some fallen grave-markers were noted in the thick overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-023001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope overlooking the Drimminboy and Croanshagh Rivers. An oval raised area (24.4m E-W; min. 18m N-S) is defined by a low and poorly preserved earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.6m) SE-NW and intermittently NW-SE. The bank is overgrown and impenetrable NW-NE. There is an intervening fosse (Wth 2m) SE-W, an outer bank (H 0.3m) WSW-W and an outer fosse (Wth 1.8m) WSW-W. All the outer enclosing elements are covered with blanket bog. Most of interior is impenetrable due to overgrowth and it is occupied by a children's burial ground (KE108-023----). There is a souterrain (KE108-023002-) in the N half of the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-023002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE108-023001-). A stone lintel (Wth 0.85m; T 0.2m) is visible in the N half of the rath. Beneath it is a passage (D 0.4m) that appears to extend in a NW direction. A depression (c. 1.6m NW-SE; c. 2m SW-NE) occurs immediately NW of the lintel and in its base are a number of openings which reveal an underground chamber or passage (D 1.2m). Piles of earth noted on the floor of the passage may be due to collapse or to animal burrowing. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-045 Standing stone
  Description

  In rough pasture, at the foot of a steep N-facing hill, overlooking the Drimminboy River. This standing stone (1.24m x 0.32m; H 2.77m) gradually narrows to a rounded point at the top and is orientated NNE-SSW. A packing-stone is visible near its base at the NNE side. There is a notch at both the NNE and SSW edges of the stone, towards the base. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortavallig · Gort an Bhealaigh

Area

1,185,820 m² (118.58 ha, 293.02 acres)

Civil parish

Tuosist, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Glanmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glanmore electoral division: 245 people in 98 households; 86% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Canagullen, Clogherane, Coolcreen, Deelis, Shronebirrane

Placenames

Gortavallig 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.