[2] In 2011, archaeologists dug a test trench on the site of the realignment of the N69 Tralee-Listowel road, which passes through Gortclohy, evidence of Bronze Age Continental European Beaker culture was found, namely tool production waste and charcoal of hazel, oak and alder (approximate location using Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system, 29U 491373 623604).

In 1666, Henry Ponsonby, a 46-year-old former soldier who fought for Cromwell, was granted the land after the Act of Settlement of 1662.

[4][5][6][7] Timothy Tuomey of Gortclohy was a victim of the Ballyseedy incident during the Irish Civil War.

On 7 March 1923, Tuomey and eight other Republican prisoners of the Free State army were taken from the barracks in Tralee to Ballyseedy, where a mine had been prepared by two Dublin Guard officers.

[13] The townland is in the parliamentary constituency of Kerry (since 2016), returning five Teachtaí Dála (TDs) to the Dáil Éireann.