Gurteen

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gurteen, from 149 m² to 284,444 m² (28.44 ha, 70.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gurteen 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.

• 10 Jul 2026N/a

  (A) Retention Permission to retain: (1) The existing sunroom on the western side of the dwelling house. (2) The existing foundation, walls and concrete floor on the western side of the existing shed And (B) Permission for development to change the use of the existing shed to habitable domestic use and carry out alteration and extension works including changing and raising the roof. The alteration and extension works will link this building to the existing house for use as dependent relative accommodation and will include all necessary site works.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660650

• 27 Feb 2026N/a

  (A) Retention Permission to retain the existing sunroom on the western side of the dwelling house, and (B) Permission for development to change the use of the existing shed to habitable domestic use and carry out alteration and extension works including changing and raising the roof. The alteration and extension works will link this building to the existing house for use as dependent relative accommodation and will include all necessary site works

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660164

• 25 Jan 2017Conditional

  (A) RETAIN AND COMPLETE THE BUILDING LOCATED ON THE FOOTPRINT OF A PREVIOUS FARM BUILDING (B) PERMISSION TO CHANGE THE USE OF SAID BUILDING TO A DWELLING HOUSE ON COMPLETION OF THE PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY ALTERATIONS (C) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH THE EXISTING DWELLING ON COMPLETION OF THE PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE AND REUSE THE EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER CONNECTION FOR THE PROPOSED DWELLING (D) CARRY OUT ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 1752

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
• Special Protection Area: Dingle Peninsula SPA 004153
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE044-123 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 24.5m N-S, 22.5m E-W A well-preserved bivallate rath situated on a gentle N facing slope with good open views in all directions. The outer bank has been removed along the E and SE sectors and a field bank now lies just outside its former line. Elsewhere the bank is c. 1m high externally, 1.5m wide and c. 2m high above the base of the fosse. It is revetted with drystone masonry in places and now functions as a field boundary. The inner bank rises 2.75m above the fosse and 2m above the interior. There is a 4.5m wide gap through the bank at E, but no trace of a corresponding causeway across the fosse. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 458. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE044-124 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked on the 1st edition of the OS map as a univallate circular enclosure and named 'Fort' on the Fair plan, this site is now marked by an irregular patch of bare ground in an otherwise grassy field. This measures 30m N-S and 45m E-W. The site is located in undulating pastureland on the N side of the Knocknanacree ridge. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 704. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE044-125 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 23m N-S, 21.5m E-W A roughly circular univallate rath situated on a gentle NE facing slope, in undulating pastureland at the foot of the Knocknanacree ridge. The earthen enclosing bank is generally 1m high internally and 1.25m high externally, but it has been reduced to a low scarp along the W sector and is disturbed along the NW sector where it is abutted by a stone field-wall. Its inner face is revetted with drystone masonry in places. An external fosse and low upcast outer bank are visible along the NE sector, and the fosse is also discernible outside the field wall in the NW sector. The fosse is 2.5m wide and .75m deep and rises 2.1m to the crest of the inner bank. The outer bank is .5m high. The 1.2m wide entrance gap faces due S and is lined on its W side with drystone masonry. A possible hut site occupies the centre of the enclosure. It consists of a band of small stones enclosing an area 3.5m square and open to S. The only other feature visible in the interior is a depression in the NW sector which measures 2.5m in diameter and .5m in depth. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 459. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

• KE044-125001 Hut site
  Description

  Roughly circular univallate rath KE044-125---- is situated on a gentle NE facing slope, in undulating pastureland at the foot of the Knocknanacree ridge. A possible hut site (KE044-125001-) occupies the centre of the enclosure. It consists of a band of small stones enclosing an area 3.5m square and open to S. The only other feature visible in the interior is a depression in the NW sector which measures 2.5m in diameter and .5m in depth. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 459. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gurteen, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gurteen.

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

Name

Gurteen · Na Goirtíní

Area

2,321,757 m² (232.18 ha, 573.72 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinvoher, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Ballynacourty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

298 people lived in 119 households in the Ballynacourty electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrinane, Ballinclare, Doorah, Farrannacarriga, Gurteen North

Placenames

Gurteen 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.