Port

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Port, from 883 m² to 237,250 m² (23.72 ha, 58.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Port 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.

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  to retain an existing domestic garage and all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1979

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Macnean Upper 000986

Recorded monuments

• CV001-012 Sweathouse
  Description

  Small circular drystone-built structure (int. diam. 1.3m; H 1.9m) of beehive-type construction, roofed internally by two flat slabs. Low lintelled entrance at N (H 0.55m; Wth 0.5m). Richardson (1939, 35) recorded a chimney on S side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV001-013 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Indicated on all OS eds. Raised circular area (diam. c. 36m) enclosed by a substantial drystone wall. Original entrance not recognisable. Densely overgrown with vegetation. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV001-014 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Indicated on all OS eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. 32.9m). enclosed by the grassed-over lower portion of a drystone wall. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV001-015001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Depicted as an almost oval-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 38m N-S; c. 33m E-W) on OS 1911 ed. Only the outline of the cashel wall described by Lowry- Corry and Richardson (1937, 157-9) is now identifiable. Well-defined entrance at SE. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 137, No. 1) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Port, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Port with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Port

Area

695,175 m² (69.52 ha, 171.78 acres)

Civil parish

Killinagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Eskey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

322 people lived in 74 households in the Eskey electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortaquill, Kiltomulty, Leck, Thornhill or Mullandreenagh

Placenames

Port 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.