Gortnaprocess

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaprocess, from 317 m² to 247,140 m² (24.71 ha, 61.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Gortnaprocess 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.

• 13 Jul 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION ONTO THE FRONT SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23796

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• KE060-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. Some field boundaries in the vicinity have been removed. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE060-021 Burnt spread
  Description

  In pasture, on the W bank of a stream, on a S-facing slope with views SW to the Paps of Dana. According to local information, burnt material was scattered here in the course of land reclamation many years ago. This material is not visible at ground level. This is the fulacht fia measuring '20 feet [6.09m] in circumference and 3 feet [0.91m] high' recorded in John Breen's land in the 1940s (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE060-041 Mass-rock
  Description

  In a bog, immediately to the E of a small stream and on the N side of the townland boundary. This rock, said locally to have been a mass-rock in Penal times, no longer exists as it was broken up to provide stone for field boundaries in the past. 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 Gortnaprocess.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortnaprocess

Area

1,353,433 m² (135.34 ha, 334.44 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Rathmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmore electoral division: 1,941 people in 735 households; 67% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycullane, Banard, Coom, Gneevgullia, Gullaun East, Gullaun West, Knockacappul

Placenames

Gortnaprocess 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.