Gortnaskeha Commons
Townland in the civil parish of Killehenny, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish Coimín Ghort na Sceiche
- Area
- 61 ha
- 151 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 3,796 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaskeha Commons, from 199 m² to 115,945 m² (11.59 ha, 28.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Gortnaskeha Commons 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
30 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE ON HER SITE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19452
23 Mar 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, SERVICED BY A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, AN INTERMITTENT FILTER AND A POLISHING FILTER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18265
24 Jul 2017Conditional
(A) RETAIN EXTENSIVE SITE WORKS WHICH INCLUDE DEMOLITION OF 80% OF AN EXISTING STONE COTTAGE/OUTHOUSE , NEW FOUNDATIONS, NEW RISING WALLS AND NEW SUBFLOORS (B) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH THE REMAINING COTTAGE STRUCTURE AND DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (C)PLANNING PERMISSION TO COMPLETE THE DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING THE ORIGINAL STONE COTTAGE AS CLADDING TO PORTIONS OF THE NEW DWELLING WITH THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17716
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 Gortnaskeha Commons.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnaskeha Commons.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnaskeha Commons.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Gortnaskeha Commons.
- 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 Gortnaskeha Commons with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnaskeha Commons · Coimín Ghort na Sceiche
- Area
- 609,512 m² (60.95 ha, 150.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killehenny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Killehenny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killehenny electoral division: 2,064 people in 894 households; 66% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnadarrig, Farranpierce, Gortnaskeha, Lahardane, Lahesheragh North, Lahesheragh South
- Placenames
- Gortnaskeha Commons 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.