Gortloughera

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortloughera, from 32 m² to 294,482 m² (29.45 ha, 72.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Gortloughera 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.

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  The development consists of (a) Retention Planning Permission to retain the dwelling house as constructed and Permission to install two roof windows on the north elevation of the house, (b) Retention Planning Permission to retain the site entrance and driveway as constructed, (c) Permission to decommission the existing wastewater treatment system and replace it with a new wastewater treatment system consisting of a mechanical treatment tank and a soil polishing filter, (d) Permission to construct a domestic garage, and (e) Retention Planning Permission to retain the house, well house, bored well, wastewater treatment system, driveway and site entrance within revised site boundaries.

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460556

• 3 Apr 2024Conditional

  (a) construct an extension to his existing dwelling house, (b) make alterations to the existing dwelling house, (c) construct a new garage incorporating a sauna area and associated carport and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460192

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  TO (A) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THEIR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) MAKE ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (C) INSTALL A TRICEL NOVO WASTWATER TREATMENT UNIT FOLLOWED BY A TRICEL SANDCEL SAND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE THE DWELLING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2435

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND STONE OUTBUILDING, (B) CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, (C) INSTALL A SEPTIC TANK FOLLOWED BY 2 NO. PURAFLO PEAT FILTERS TO SERVE THE DWELLING, (D) UPGRADE EXISTING ACCESS ROADWAY TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23278

• 7 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL A TRICEL NOVO WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT FOLLOWED BY A TRICEL SANDCEL SAND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE THE EXISTING DWELLING, UPGRADE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22733

• 21 Sept 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, AN ONSITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM CONSISTING OF A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20861

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortloughera.

Recorded monuments

• KE094-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a N-facing slope overlooking the Roughty River. A circular area (31.7m E-W; 31m N-S), partially covered with overgrowth, defined by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 3.3m). An external fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 2m) is evident NNE-NNW. There is a sharp drop downslope from the bank along the N arc. The interior is level. There is a causeway entrance (Wth 2.2m) at E. The bank and fosse are densely covered with 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

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortloughera · Gort Luachra

Area

1,579,271 m² (157.93 ha, 390.25 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Glanlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glanlough electoral division: 158 people in 58 households; 87% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnastooka, Caher, Churchground, Dromnycolman, Kilbunow, Kilfadda Beg, Lomanagh

Placenames

Gortloughera 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.