Gortnatona
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 65.9 ha
- 163 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 2,767 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnatona, from 98 m² to 163,745 m² (16.37 ha, 40.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Gortnatona 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
19 Jan 2026Conditional
Planning Permission to (a) construct an extension to the side and rear of an existing dwelling, (b) decommission the existing septic tank system and install a new wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, (c) construct a new shed and (d) all ancillary site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660028
29 Apr 2020Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING BLOCK BUILT SHED (B) EXTEND SLATTED LIVESTOCK UNIT. EXTENSION TO INCORPORATE UNDERGROUND SLATTED STORAGE TANK WITH TWO EXTERNAL AGITATION POINTS, CUBICLES, CALVING AREA AND CALF REARING AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20386
24 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A FAMILY FLAT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19423
18 Dec 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, A GARAGE, A PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 181240
5 Dec 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A FAMILY FLAT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171203
19 Sept 2017Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A NEW MILKING COMPLEX, COVERED HOLDING YARD AND CATTLE CRUSH. HOLDING YARD TO INCORPORATE DOUBLE SLATTED TANK WITH 2 EXTERNAL AGITATION POINTS AND (B) ERECT A 12 TONNE MEAL BIN. THE ABOVE TO BE CARRIED OUT WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17925
25 Jan 2017Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH AN EXISTING STORE, (B) DEMOLISH AN EXISTING MILKING COMPLEX / CALF HOUSE AND CONSTRUCT IN ITS PLACE, A NEW MILKING COMPLEX / CALF HOUSE, (C) CONSTRUCT A NEW EASY FEED SLATTED LIVESTOCK UNIT WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK WITH 2 EXTERNAL AGITATION POINTS AND (D) ERECT A 12 TONNE MEAL BIN
Permission · Kerry County Council, 1751
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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnatona.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnatona.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_182 (ZIP).
- 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 Gortnatona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnatona
- Area
- 658,584 m² (65.86 ha, 162.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcummin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Kilcummin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcummin electoral division: 2,348 people in 773 households; 86% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardagh, Ballydeenlea, Doonryan, Dromadeesirt
- Placenames
- Gortnatona 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.