Gortaspiddale

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaspiddale, from 6 m² to 51,227 m² (5.12 ha, 12.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town/Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Education
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Reserve, White Land (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use, General Development (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Conservation, Amenity, Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 27 Feb 2025Refused

  permission to construct an apartment block consisting of 10 number two bedroom living units, served by associated car parking and an internal bicycle and wheeled bin store, the units shall be connected to all public services & also to include all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560129

• 22 Aug 2024Conditional

  The construction of a domestic shed including a clothes drying room

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460594

• 15 Aug 2022Conditional

  (1) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN 2 NO. EXISTING METAL CLAD STORAGE SHEDS,(2) PLANNING PERMISSION (A) TO CHANGE USE OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING INTO GRANNY FLAT; (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A REAR PORCH EXTENSION TO GRANNY FLAT; (C) CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSIONS, AND (D) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22859

• 23 Mar 2021Conditional

  ALTER/MODIFY EXTERNAL FACADES AND FINISHES TO BUILDING AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSIONS 12/484 AND 129484

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21301

• 2 May 2017Conditional

  DEMOLISH AN EXISTING STAFF TOILET AND TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY GENERAL PURPOSE ROOM COMPLETE WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION, INCLUDING NEW STAFF TOILET AND SERVERY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORK

  Extension of duration · Kerry County Council, 129484

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 Gortaspiddale.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortaspiddale.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Gortaspiddale, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_71 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Gortaspiddale with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Gortaspiddale · Gort an Spidéil

Area

103,957 m² (10.4 ha, 25.69 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfert, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ardfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,100 people lived in 424 households in the Ardfert electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloon Glebe, Commons East, Farranwilliam

Placenames

Gortaspiddale 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.