Gortnamackanee
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcrohane, barony of Dunkerron South, Co. Kerry; in Irish Gort na Meacanaí
- Area
- 280.4 ha
- 693 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 19,173 m² (1.92 ha, 4.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnamackanee, from 4,762 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres) to 926,975 m² (92.7 ha, 229.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Gortnamackanee 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
No planning application touches the townland of Gortnamackanee in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- KE098-081 Hut site
Description
On a natural rise, overlooking Isknagahiny Lough to NE. The overgrown foundations of a roughly rectangular drystone structure. Overall dimensions: 4.3m x 3.6m. A short stretch of walling, 2.3m long, extends from the N wall of the hut. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1284. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnamackanee.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Gortnamackanee.
- 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 Gortnamackanee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnamackanee · Gort na Meacanaí
- Area
- 2,803,816 m² (280.38 ha, 692.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcrohane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkerron South
- Electoral division
- Ballybrack, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballybrack electoral division: 102 people in 41 households; 71% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 29% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Behaghane, Cloghvoola, Coomnahorna East, Gowlanes, Graigues, Inchfarrannagleragh Glebe, Tooreens, Tooreenyduneen
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Gortnamackanee 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.