Gortbrack West
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyseedy, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Gort Breac Thiar
- Area
- 72.4 ha
- 179 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 17,529 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortbrack West, from 212 m² to 180,878 m² (18.09 ha, 44.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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
No zone of a development plan covers Gortbrack West 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
1 Dec 2023Conditional
(A) TO RETAIN THE KITCHEN/DINING AND BEDROOMS TO THE FRONT, SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED, (B) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE EXISTING UTILITY SHED/STORAGE SHEDS AT REAR OF DWELLNG HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231146
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 Gortbrack West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortbrack West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortbrack West.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortbrack West.
- 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 Gortbrack West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Gortbrack West · An Gort Breac Thiar
- Area
- 723,755 m² (72.38 ha, 178.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyseedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Ballyseedy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyseedy electoral division: 1,968 people in 638 households; 71% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballindooganig, Ballymacthomas, Curraghmore West, Gortbrack East
- Placenames
- Gortbrack West 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.