# Gortroe, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Gort Rua. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,549,623 m² (254.96 ha, 630.03 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,125 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Castleisland, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/castleisland.md - Barony: Trughanacmy - Electoral division: Knocknagashel, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Knocknagashel electoral division: 733 people in 291 households; 82% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24671 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71574 - Centre: latitude 52.347999, longitude -9.398065 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortroe, from 30 m² to 276,139 m² (27.61 ha, 68.24 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1247287: 276,139 m² (27.61 ha, 68.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1247287.md - Parcel 1223226: 248,192 m² (24.82 ha, 61.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223226.md - Parcel 1209830: 202,834 m² (20.28 ha, 50.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1209830.md - Parcel 1211554: 166,519 m² (16.65 ha, 41.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1211554.md - Parcel 1158990: 158,278 m² (15.83 ha, 39.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158990.md - Parcel 1242002: 147,974 m² (14.8 ha, 36.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1242002.md - Parcel 1158953: 124,172 m² (12.42 ha, 30.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158953.md - Parcel 1165081: 118,702 m² (11.87 ha, 29.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1165081.md - Parcel 1158986: 117,982 m² (11.8 ha, 29.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158986.md - Parcel 3131527: 104,242 m² (10.42 ha, 25.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3131527.md - Parcel 1159098: 101,225 m² (10.12 ha, 25.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1159098.md - Parcel 1166856: 92,842 m² (9.28 ha, 22.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1166856.md - Parcel 1159195: 89,005 m² (8.9 ha, 21.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1159195.md - Parcel 1183192: 56,737 m² (5.67 ha, 14.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183192.md - Parcel 1183343: 53,872 m² (5.39 ha, 13.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183343.md - Parcel 1158955: 47,742 m² (4.77 ha, 11.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158955.md - Parcel 1158956: 47,078 m² (4.71 ha, 11.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158956.md - Parcel 1162941: 31,399 m² (3.14 ha, 7.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1162941.md - Parcel 1160044: 25,675 m² (2.57 ha, 6.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1160044.md - Parcel 1183269: 25,279 m² (2.53 ha, 6.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183269.md - Parcel 3846223: 23,574 m² (2.36 ha, 5.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846223.md - Parcel 1158991: 23,230 m² (2.32 ha, 5.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158991.md - Parcel 1183270: 22,054 m² (2.21 ha, 5.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183270.md - Parcel 1240451: 21,736 m² (2.17 ha, 5.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240451.md - Parcel 1158987: 20,592 m² (2.06 ha, 5.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158987.md - Parcel 1158988: 19,490 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158988.md - Parcel 3074549: 16,471 m² (1.65 ha, 4.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3074549.md - Parcel 1183165: 15,363 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183165.md - Parcel 1179944: 14,718 m² (1.47 ha, 3.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1179944.md - Parcel 1214533: 14,624 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214533.md - Parcel 1216005: 14,159 m² (1.42 ha, 3.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1216005.md - Parcel 1157851: 13,125 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157851.md - Parcel 5115053: 10,950 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5115053.md - Parcel 1205056: 10,095 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1205056.md - Parcel 1241239: 6,307 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1241239.md - Parcel 1212231: 5,950 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1212231.md - Parcel 1213024: 5,848 m² (0.58 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213024.md - Parcel 4097276: 5,820 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4097276.md - Parcel 6134161: 3,945 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6134161.md - Parcel 1209580: 3,691 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1209580.md - Parcel 5221893: 3,661 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5221893.md - Parcel 3891911: 3,376 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3891911.md - Parcel 3054446: 3,079 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3054446.md - Parcel 3846221: 2,961 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846221.md - Parcel 1183175: 2,849 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183175.md - Parcel 1229676: 2,709 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229676.md - Parcel 1207871: 2,435 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1207871.md - Parcel 1151774: 2,283 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1151774.md - Parcel 1210844: 2,229 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1210844.md - Parcel 4076474: 2,115 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4076474.md - Parcel 5221892: 1,968 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5221892.md - Parcel 1226235: 1,942 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1226235.md - Parcel 1244567: 1,801 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244567.md - Parcel 1158954: 1,726 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1158954.md - Parcel 3846222: 1,641 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846222.md - Parcel 1183193: 1,448 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183193.md - Parcel 1202518: 1,438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1202518.md - Parcel 1155111: 1,193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1155111.md - Parcel 2431745: 1,104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2431745.md - Parcel 1217701: 952 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1217701.md - Parcel 3846220: 351 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846220.md - Parcel 3846224: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846224.md - Parcel 6134165: 30 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6134165.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortroe in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 23 Apr 2020, Kerry County Council 20373: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THEIR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/20373/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA, site code 004161, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004161 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortroe. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortroe. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility 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 Gortroe. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortroe-71574.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortroe-71574.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortroe-71574.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Feavautia: https://everytownland.com/kerry/feavautia.md - Knockalougha: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockalougha.md - Knocknagashel West: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knocknagashel-west.md - Muingwee: https://everytownland.com/kerry/muingwee.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortroe-71574 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/gortroe-71574