Kilgortaree

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgortaree, from 19 m² to 355,491 m² (35.55 ha, 87.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Kilgortaree 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.

• 6 Oct 2020Conditional

  (A) RETAIN THE DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED, (B) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN THE SITE ENTRANCE AS CONSTRUCTED, (C) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN HOUSE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, DRIVEWAY AND SITE ENTRANCE WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND (D) PERMISSION TO CONVERT THE GARAGE TO A HOME OFFICE AND CHANGE THE GARAGE DOOR TO A GLAZED PATIO DOOR

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20926

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilgortaree.

Recorded monuments

• KE093-118 Country house
  Description

  In pasture and woodland on steep N-facing slope overlooking the Roughty River. Two-storey house with front (N) of five bays; two-storey, one-bay gabled projection off-centre to right with central door. Gable-ended with large chimney off-centre to right. Rear elevation of three bays with dormer windows on first floor. Lean-to extension at E end. A range of lofted outhouses adjoins the front of the house at right angles to its W end. House was originally associated with the Orpen family and is believed to date to the 18th -century (Bary 1994, 150). According to local knowledge it served as a stopping place for coaches which travelled the old coach road running in a N-S direction immediately W of the house. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilgortaree.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Kilgortaree.

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

Name

Kilgortaree · Coill Ghort an Rí

Area

1,671,466 m² (167.15 ha, 413.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kenmare, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Cappagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cappagh electoral division: 404 people in 149 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caher East, Currabeg, Derrylahan, Dromatouk, Letter Lower

Placenames

Kilgortaree 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.