Gortnagappul
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcaskan, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry; in Irish Gort na gCapall
- Area
- 61.6 ha
- 152 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 21,091 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnagappul, from 299 m² to 160,407 m² (16.04 ha, 39.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 4 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 Gortnagappul 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
2 Dec 2021Conditional
ALTER THE LAYOUT OF THE EXISTING CAR PARK/SET DOWN FACILITES AT TULLOHA NATIONAL SCHOOL. THE PROPOSED WORKS INCLUDE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROADWAY, ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING CARPARK ENTRANCE, THE EXTENSION AND REALIGNMENT OF THE PARKING LAYOUT TO INCLUDE A DISABLED ACCESS CAR PARKING SPACE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 211386
19 Jul 2021Conditional
(A) MODIFY THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REGISTERED UNDER PLANNING REGISTRATION NO. 20/749 AS FOLLOWS, (B) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (C) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH VARIOUS CHANGES TO THE DWLLING HOUSE DESIGN PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REGISTRATION NO. 20/749
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21810
19 Oct 2020Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE GROUND FLOOR COMPRISING OF A NEW CLASSROOOM AND ASSOCIATED SANITARY FACILITIES, A NEW DISABLED ACCESS WC AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20984
21 Aug 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO MY EXISTING DWELLING ON MY SITE. PLANNING PERMISSION IS FURTHER SOUGHT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF NEW MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER AND POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20749
21 Jul 2020N/a
CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO MY EXISTING DWELLING ON MY SITE
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20647
14 Aug 2019Conditional
FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING NATIONAL SCHOOL BUILDING. THE PROPOSED WORKS WILL INCLUDE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE GROUND FLOOR COMPRISING OF A NEW SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL TEACHING ROOM AND DISABLED ACCESS WC AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19857
16 Apr 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE C/W SEPTIC TANK AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18345
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 Gortnagappul.
Recorded monuments
- KE102-108 Standing stone
Description
In rough pasture, on a SE-facing slope. This standing stone (1.7m x 0.2m; H 1.5m) is subrectangular in plan and is orientated N-S. A smaller stone (1.5m x 0.2m; H 0.75m), parallel to and beside its E face, may have split from the larger stone. 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 Gortnagappul.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortnagappul.
- 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 Gortnagappul with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnagappul · Gort na gCapall
- Area
- 616,320 m² (61.63 ha, 152.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcaskan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glanarought
- Electoral division
- Banawn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Banawn electoral division: 267 people in 93 households; 89% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dromagorteen, Gearha, Killabunane, Tullaha
- Placenames
- Gortnagappul 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.