Gortaree

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaree, from 16 m² to 152,795 m² (15.28 ha, 37.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Gortaree 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.

• 1 Jul 2026N/a

  full planning permission to (A) construct new dwelling house (B) construct domestic garage and (C) construct new wastewater treatment system along with all ancillary site services at Gortaree, Aghadoe, Killarney, Co.Kerry

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660606

• 13 Mar 2025N/a

  Retention Permission to retain existing cottage as constructed, septic tank and filtration area, all in accordance with plans and particulars submitted

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560176

• 28 Feb 2025N/a

  Invalid: Retention Permission to retain existing cottage within revised site boundaries, , all in accordance with plans and particulars submitted

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560131

• 7 Jul 2023Conditional

  Full Planning Permission to construct a storey and a half style dwelling, detached garage, septic tank and percolation area with all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2360021

• 27 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A BUILDING CONSISTING OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND BOAT HOUSE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND STORAGE AREA AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL, ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201019

• 10 Jun 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GRANNY FLAT, INSTALL MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER, THE WIDENING OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19596

• 15 Nov 2018Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCT A NEW ROOF OVER EXISTING WALLED SILAGE SLAB (11) CONSTRUCT A NEW WALLED SILAGE SLAB WITH 2 CONCRETE APRONS AND ADJACENT CONCRETE FEED TROUGH WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 181123

• 21 Aug 2018Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ANCILLARY BULIDINGS, AND TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE TO REPLACE SAME TO INCLUDE NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18822

• 6 Jul 2018Refused

  RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN CHANGE OF USE OF PREMISES FROM EXISTING HOLIDAY RESIDENTIAL USE TO PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL USE

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18682

• 25 Apr 2018Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK AS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18379

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 Gortaree.

Recorded monuments

• KE058-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a small plateau. A circular area (diam. c. 42m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 5.6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m) S-N and by a low bank (ext. H 1.6m) N-S. An external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.35m) is evident S-N though it has been altered S-W due to ploughing. The interior is flat and level and may have been raised slightly above the external ground level. There is a possible entrance at S. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE066-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), incorporated into the field boundary system along its S arc. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortaree, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_171 (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 Gortaree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Gortaree · Gort an Fhraoigh

Area

558,523 m² (55.85 ha, 138.01 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadoe, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Aghadoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

870 people lived in 309 households in the Aghadoe electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curragh, Knoppoge, Lackabane, Parkavonear

Placenames

Gortaree 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.