Portrushen Upper

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portrushen Upper, from 1,022 m² to 212,324 m² (21.23 ha, 52.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Portrushen Upper 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.

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  alterations to dwelling as constructed under planning reference PL.8709 and use of former surgery as part of dwelling, bay window to side of dwelling, detached garage, garden shed and machinery shed

  Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2426

• 3 Feb 2020Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling with attached garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new bored well, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2029

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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• CW004-023 Chapel
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Penal chapel. No visible surface traces.

Architectural heritage

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

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

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 Upper.

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.

No address of the register names Portrushen Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Portrushen Upper · Port Roisín Uachtarach

Area

890,030 m² (89 ha, 219.93 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), Brownbog, Drumguin, Portrushen Lower, Tiknock, Tombeagh

Placenames

Portrushen Upper 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.