Gortnakilla

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnakilla, from 836 m² to 601,265 m² (60.13 ha, 148.58 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 Gortnakilla 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.

• 12 Jun 2024Conditional

  RETAIN CONSERVATORY AT FRONT OF DWELLING AND ALSO TO RETAIN EXTENSION AT SIDE WITH 1ST FLOOR BALCONY

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24239

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE076-056 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  In rough pasture, in an area of cutaway bog with traces of pre-bog walls (KE076-056001-), on the S side of the crest of a ridge. The remains consist of a gallery (L 2.65m; Wth 1.2m at W end; Wth 0.75m at E) aligned E-W. Three sidestones form the N and S sides of the gallery. A capstone (1.95m E-W; 1.15m N-S; T 0.12m), which has broken into at least five pieces, slopes down to the S where it rests on the ground. The N side of the capstone rests on the S sidestones. There are traces of outer walling to the N and S. The wedge tomb is surrounded by a low mound which is best preserved at N. Another wedge tomb (KE076-038---) lies c. 400m to W. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE076-056001 Field boundary
  Description

  In rough pasture, in an area of cutaway bog on the S side of the crest of a ridge. A stretch of pre-bog wall was noted c. 5m to the N of a wedge tomb (KE076-056----). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE076-070 Standing stone
  Description

  In rough heather and gorse covered grazing on a N-S bog-covered ridge with views over the surrounding hills and valleys. An upright stone slab (H 1.15m; 1.7m x 0.37m), roughly rectangular in plan and elevation, and orientated NE-SW. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortnakilla.

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

Name

Gortnakilla

Area

2,601,077 m² (260.11 ha, 642.74 acres)

Civil parish

Killaha, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Clydagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clydagh electoral division: 125 people in 49 households; 79% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coomacullen, Dromavrauka, Gortalicka, Inchamore (Co. Cork), Inchee

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gortnakilla 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.