Gortdromagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcrohane, barony of Dunkerron South, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Gort Dromach
- Area
- 400.2 ha
- 989 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 110,221 m² (11.02 ha, 27.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortdromagh, from 3,341 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres) to 2,251,990 m² (225.2 ha, 556.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Gortdromagh 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
12 Aug 2026N/a
The development consists of (a) permission to renovate, make elevational changes too and raise the ridge and eaves heights of the existing dwelling house, (b) permission to construct an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, (c) permission to construct an extension on the eastern side of the dwelling house (d) permission to construct a porch to the front of the existing dwelling house and (e) permission to decommission the existing wastewater treatment system and construct a new upgraded wastewater treatment system consisting of a mechanical aeration unit, intermittent filter and polishing filter.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660750
21 Sept 2020Conditional
(A) RENOVATE, MAKE ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TOO AND RAISE THE RIDGE HEIGHT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (C) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH THE EXISTING SHED ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION IN ITS PLACE, (D) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A PORCH TO THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (E) PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM CONSISTING OF A MECHANI CAL AERATION UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20857
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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortdromagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortdromagh.
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 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 Gortdromagh.
- 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 Gortdromagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Gortdromagh · An Gort Dromach
- Area
- 4,001,530 m² (400.15 ha, 988.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcrohane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkerron South
- Electoral division
- Castlecove, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlecove electoral division: 350 people in 145 households; 85% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 40% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohacogram, Caunteens, Maghygreenane, Moneyflugh, Tooreens
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Gortdromagh 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.