# Gortrooskagh, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kenmare, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry; in Irish Gort Rúscach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,298,059 m² (129.81 ha, 320.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,140 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kenmare, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kenmare.md - Barony: Glanarought - Electoral division: Kenmare, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Kenmare electoral division: 3,520 people in 1,321 households; 57% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23048 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71576 - Centre: latitude 51.856418, longitude -9.542612 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortrooskagh, from 82 m² to 532,130 m² (53.21 ha, 131.49 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1185099: 532,130 m² (53.21 ha, 131.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185099.md - Parcel 1185102: 84,314 m² (8.43 ha, 20.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185102.md - Parcel 1185100: 78,993 m² (7.9 ha, 19.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185100.md - Parcel 1157029: 75,594 m² (7.56 ha, 18.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157029.md - Parcel 1157027: 66,404 m² (6.64 ha, 16.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157027.md - Parcel 1157371: 62,494 m² (6.25 ha, 15.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157371.md - Parcel 1212793: 53,628 m² (5.36 ha, 13.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1212793.md - Parcel 1218828: 42,265 m² (4.23 ha, 10.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1218828.md - Parcel 1185101: 37,732 m² (3.77 ha, 9.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1185101.md - Parcel 1157028: 36,231 m² (3.62 ha, 8.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157028.md - Parcel 1217456: 35,349 m² (3.53 ha, 8.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1217456.md - Parcel 1199753: 35,194 m² (3.52 ha, 8.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1199753.md - Parcel 1204422: 30,373 m² (3.04 ha, 7.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1204422.md - Parcel 1205331: 18,708 m² (1.87 ha, 4.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1205331.md - Parcel 3846701: 18,281 m² (1.83 ha, 4.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846701.md - Parcel 3846702: 10,668 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846702.md - Parcel 1203989: 9,750 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1203989.md - Parcel 1184633: 8,530 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184633.md - Parcel 3846703: 5,607 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3846703.md - Parcel 3969487: 4,988 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3969487.md - Parcel 1199357: 4,572 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1199357.md - Parcel 1237460: 4,216 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237460.md - Parcel 1157030: 3,659 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1157030.md - Parcel 1245360: 3,353 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245360.md - Parcel 1199043: 3,106 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1199043.md - Parcel 1183777: 2,583 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1183777.md - Parcel 1140266: 2,104 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1140266.md - Parcel 5638431: 1,883 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5638431.md - Parcel 1201262: 1,592 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1201262.md - Parcel 5092508: 810 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5092508.md - Parcel 1203528: 732 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1203528.md - Parcel 6032428: 224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6032428.md - Parcel 1214123: 214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214123.md - Parcel 5092507: 82 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5092507.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortrooskagh 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. - 31 Jan 2025, Kerry County Council 2560047: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. The development will consist of: (a) refurbishment of existing two storey dwelling; (b) demolition of existing single storey extension; (c) construction of a single storey extension and one-and-a-half storey extension; (d) replacement of existing septic tank with a new septic tank with effluent filter and percolation area, and; (e) all ancillary site works associated with the development including landscaping and parking area.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560047/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortrooskagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortrooskagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortrooskagh. ## 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Gortrooskagh. - 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/gortrooskagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortrooskagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gortrooskagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortrooskagh 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) - Ballygriffin: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballygriffin.md - Carrignahihilan: https://everytownland.com/kerry/carrignahihilan.md - Derrygarriv: https://everytownland.com/kerry/derrygarriv-71040.md - Dromanassig: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromanassig.md - Gearhadiveen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/gearhadiveen.md - Lackaroe: https://everytownland.com/kerry/lackaroe.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/gortrooskagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/gortrooskagh