Portdrine
Townland in the civil parish of Kilfintinan, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Port Roighin
- Area
- 212.1 ha
- 524 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 2,746 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portdrine, from 11 m² to 565,724 m² (56.57 ha, 139.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
- O2Cluster (General)
Portdrine Cluster, Clare · 56 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Sept 2025Conditional
to construct 4 no warehouse units to include office accommodation within each unit and connections to the existing estate services, provision of additional heavy and light vehicular parking together with all necessary ancillary services
Permission · Clare County Council, 2560546
4 Aug 2025Conditional
for an amendment to a previously granted planning application Ref. No. 23-153. The development will consist of the demolition of the existing bungalow and the construction of a new dormer bungalow and garage / office with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560480
14 Jun 2024N/a
to construct 4 No. warehouse units to include office accommodation within each unit and connections to the existing estate services, provision of additional heavy and light vehicular parking together with all necessary ancillary services
Permission · Clare County Council, 24192
13 Mar 2023Conditional
for development at this site, the development will consist of the extension of an existing dwelling (garage conversion); the construction of a new septic tank: alterations to the existing front boundary wall / vehicular access and associated ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23153
8 Jun 2021Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a single storey personal gym building to the rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21588
20 Nov 2019Conditional
to demolish a substandard dwelling house, reconstruct a dwelling house and provide sewerage treatment facilities along with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19910
11 Apr 2019Conditional
to extend each of the existing 3 no. warehouse units ( units 1, 2 and 3 ) with all necessary ancillary services
Permission · Clare County Council, 19273
11 Feb 2019Conditional
to provide a stone façade to the Southern Elevation ( Front Elevation ) of dwelling house previously granted under planning reference number P18-389, along with all associated works
Permission · Clare County Council, 1985
14 Nov 2018Refused
for development consisting of the provision of 2 no. detached 2 storey houses on lands within the boundary of the existing zoned residential cluster development, connection to the existing treatment unit on the adjacent land in the same ownership and all associated site works including boundary treatment
Permission, 2 homes · Clare County Council, 18917
14 May 2018Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, entrance and sewerage treatment facilities along with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18389
19 Apr 2018Conditional
to a) RETAIN shed / store foundation as constructed, b) Complete shed / store extension, c) Complete remainder of development as approved under P16-518 and PL03.247201, together with ancillary site development works and services
Retention · Clare County Council, 18309
1 Feb 2018N/a
to construct an attached garage / store to existing approved dwellinghouse ( P16-518 AND pl03.247201 ) together with ancillary site development works and services
Permission · Clare County Council, 1862
22 May 2017Conditional
to construct a basement to the existing approved dwelling house (P16/518 & PL 03.247201) together with minor fenestration changes and all associated site development works and services
Permission · Clare County Council, 17394
21 Mar 2017Conditional
to RETAIN ground floor canteen and first floor office area
Retention · Clare County Council, 17200
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fergus Estuary And Inner Shannon, North Shore 002048
Recorded monuments
- CL062-010 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL062-030 House - 16th/17th century
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Portdrine.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_845 (ZIP).
- 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
- Portdrine, Cratloe9 sales
The townland
- Name
- Portdrine · Port Roighin
- Area
- 2,121,454 m² (212.15 ha, 524.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfintinan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Cratloe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cratloe electoral division: 1,404 people in 483 households; 92% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymorris, Cratloe, Garryncurra, Laghile
- Placenames
- Portdrine 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.