Portrushen Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltegan, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow; in Irish Port Roisín Íochtarach
- Area
- 133 ha
- 329 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 3,426 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portrushen Lower, from 288 m² to 125,217 m² (12.52 ha, 30.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Portrushen Lower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Aug 2022N/a
construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, bored well, secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter, new entrance, and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 22262
19 Mar 2021Conditional
Permission for the construction of a new storey and a half dwelling house together with a new bored well, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and percolation area and demolition and reordering of a derelict dwelling to provide equestrian stable facilities, a stable yard, stores and associated elements on their lands
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2190
24 Feb 2020Conditional
for a) proposed new single storey dwelling, b) new vehicle entrance, c) domestic garage d) domestic well, e) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2058
23 Sept 2019Conditional
the erection of an agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 19376
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
- CW004-045 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GSIAP R6/21) shows possible cropmark of circular enclosure. On the crest of steep SW facing slope. No visible surface traces noted when inspected by ASI in July 1987. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011
- CW004-046 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GSIAP R6/22) shows possible cropmark of an earthwork and 1839 OS '6-inch map' indicates curved almost semi-circular field boundary which may represent W half of an enclosure. On slight W facing slope. No visible surface traces noted when inspected by ASI in July 1987. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Portrushen Lower.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Portrushen Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Portrushen Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Portrushen Lower · Port Roisín Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,329,675 m² (132.97 ha, 328.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltegan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Electoral division
- Tiknock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tiknock electoral division: 348 people in 115 households; 93% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Borkill More (Co. Wicklow), Portrushen Upper, Tiknock, Tinnaclash
- Placenames
- Portrushen Lower 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.