Portraine Demesne
Townland in the civil parish of Donabate, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin; in Irish Diméin Phort Reachrann
- Area
- 190 ha
- 469 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 309 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- RS - Residential
- Planning
- 45
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portraine Demesne, from 20 m² to 1,137,588 m² (113.76 ha, 281.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 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
- R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 66 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1RA - Residential Area (New/proposed residential)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3CI - Community Infrastructure (Community facilities)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M3LC - Local Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 0 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
13 May 2026Grant permission & grant retention
Permission for demolition of timber structure to side and construction
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0383E
8 May 2026Grant permission & grant retention
Planning permission for 1. A two storey extension to rear of existing.
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0367E
23 Apr 2026Invalid application
Planning permission for 1. A two storey extension to rear of existing.
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0329E
13 Dec 2025Grant permission for retention
The development comprises Retention Permission for
Retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/1158E
30 Oct 2025Grant permission
Planning Permission for alterations to previously approved Reg. Ref. F
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1003E
23 Oct 2025Grant permission
We, Glenveagh Living Limited, intend to apply for a Large Scale Reside
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0053/S3
27 Aug 2025Refuse permission & refuse retention
The developemt will consist of the retention and completion
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0782
13 Aug 2025Grant permission
The construction of an additional bedroom and en-suite above the exist
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0735E
6 Aug 2025Invalid application
The development will consist of the retention and completion of a
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0708
15 Jul 2025Grant permission & grant retention
Retention permission for machinery shed and permission for single stor
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0640E
7 Jul 2025Invalid application
retention permission for machinery shed and permission for single stor
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0610E
2 Jul 2025Invalid application
retention permission for machinery shed and permission for single stor
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0587E
6 Feb 2025Grant permission for retention
retention planning permission for single storey shed/gym and covered s
Retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0095E
19 Dec 2024Refuse permission for retention
Retention Permission for a stand alone 1.5 storey high annex office
Retention · Fingal County Council, F24A/1170E
30 Apr 2024Grant permission
1. The construction of 364 no. new residential dwellings consisting of
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0039/S3
26 Mar 2024Grant permission
Apply for Full Planning Permission for The construction of an All-Weat
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0276
13 Feb 2024Grant permission for retention
For retention permission for development on lands at 91 Portrane Avenu
Retention · Fingal County Council, F24A/0103
20 Feb 2023Grant permission
Planning permission for proposed refurbishment works to a Protected St
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0051
21 May 2021Grant permission
Proposed ground floor front extension, installation of external wall i
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21B/0195
17 Jul 2020Grant permission
Permission for the demolition of Wayside House, Portrane Avenue
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0345
1 Oct 2019Grant permission
Construction of a new split level (single and two storey) 3 bedroom de
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0173
12 Oct 2018Grant permission for retention
Retention for the change of use from a domestic dwelling to office. T
Retention · Fingal County Council, F18A/0568
4 Oct 2018Grant permission
Permission for 1) change of use of existing attached garage to additio
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0550
20 Sept 2018Grant permission for retention
Retention Planning Permission for single storey extension to side of e
Retention · Fingal County Council, F18B/0263
16 Aug 2018Grant permission
An Architectural Conservation Area (ACA 05). The development will cons
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0478
The 25 most recent of 45 applications.
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 Protection Area: North-West Irish Sea cSPA 004236
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Portraine Shore 001215
Recorded monuments
- DU008-058 House - 18th/19th century
Description
Located south of road into Portrane. Local tradition that this was a 'smuggler's cottage' in 1722. Has been completely renovated and a large extension added. The wall plaque on beside entrance posts reads 'the Farmhouse 1722' Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 19 December 2014
- DU012-009001 Church
Description
This 'chapel site' is located in a field of pasture above the cliff edge at Portraine (Healy 1975, 25). When ploughed large stones visible. Geophysical survey (Licence no. 08R0029) undertaken ahead of the Donabate-Rogerstown Waste Water Treatment Scheme identified a possible platform c70m north of present site identified as possible site of chapel. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 16 January 2015
- DU012-009002 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Annotated 'St. Kenny's Well' on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map and as 'St Kenny's Well (Site of)' on the 1863 edition of the OSi 25-inch map. Site of chapel DU012-009001-) immediately to E. No surface remains visible. No tradition survives (Ó Danachair 1958, 80; Healy 1975, 25). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 13 April 2023
- DU012-095001 Habitation site
Description
This monument was subject to geophysical survey (Licence no. 08R029) and test excavation (Licence no. 10E0121) in advance of the Portrane, Donabate and Lusk Waste Water Treatment scheme. A settlement site extending over an area c. 65m E-W x 90m was identified and preserved in situ. It consists of a possible Bronze Age round house (DU012-095002-), pits, and enclosure ditch. Features to the N are likely to date to the Iron Age or later (McQuade 2011, 37). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 5 February 2015
- DU012-095002 House - Bronze Age
Description
This monument was subject to geophysical survey (Licence no. 08R029) and test excavation (Licence no. 10E0121) in advance of the Portrane, Donabate and Lusk Waste Water Treatment scheme. A circular structure (6m diam.) was identified represented by a curvilinear slot trench and external postholes (average 0.18m diam.) located at irregular intervals. Located within an area of possible multi-period habitation (DU012-095001-) the structure is associated with an enclosure and a series of pits indicative of domestic occupation (McQuade 2011, 31). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 5 February 2015
- DU012-095003 Pit
Description
This monument was subject to geophysical survey (Licence no. 08R029) and test excavation (Licence no. 10E0121) in advance of the Portrane, Donabate and Lusk Waste Water Treatment scheme. Located 20m N of prehistoric habitation (DU012-095001-) this monument consisted of domestic settlement characterised by a series of pits. Radiocarbon analysis from one of the pits returned a Neolithic date (2908-2638 BC cal.) (McQuade 2011, 22). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 5 February 2015
- DU012-096 Fulacht fia
Description
This monument was subject to geophysical survey (Licence no. 08R029) and excavation (Licence no. 10E0121) in advance of the Portrane, Donabate and Lusk Waste Water Treatment scheme. Located on low-lying ground this monument consisted of an oval trough (1.6m x 1.23m, 0.4m deep) filled by charcoal rich silty clay with a high frequency of fire cracked stone. A sample of hazel charcoal returned an Early Bronze age date, 2272-2037 cal. BC. The burnt mound material associated with the fulacht fia survived as three thin spreads c. 3.3m N of the trough (McQuade 2011, 24). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 5 February 2015
Architectural heritage
- Saint Ita's Hospital, gate lodge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c.1870, with canted central bay. Single-bay extension to left-hand side.ROOF: Hipped; slate; central red brick chimney; terracotta ridge tiles; decorative terracotta finial to bay window; flat felt roof to left bay; plastic rainwater goods. WALLS: Rendered plinth; rendered; lined and ruled; rendered quoins. OPENINGS: Square-headed windows; rendered reveals; painted canted sills; 1/1 original sash windows to façade; replacement uPVC frames to side. Square headed door; replacement c.1930's timber door; plate glass overlight.
- Saint Ita's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Extensive complex of multiple bay single-, two- and three- storey red brick hospital buildings, c.1900, with central breakfronts, full-height canted bays and flanking end bay towers. Complex designed by George Coppinger Ashlin. Chapel to grounds.ROOF: Hipped double pitched slate; terracotta ridge tiles; cornice; red brick chimneys; cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Red brick English garden wall bond with limestone plinth course and red sandstone dressings; brick string courses, dentil courses and cornice. OPENINGS: Square headed, chamfered carved sandstone lintels and running moulded cills, brick reveals; variety of probably original timber sash and uPVC windows; round headed window openings, with hood mouldings recessed reveals, chamfered sill, timber casement windows; square headed door openings with chamfered sandstone lintels with margin glass overlight, plain glass overlight, timber panelled doors, timber and glazed doors.
- Saint Ita's Hospital, folly, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Round tower, c.1865, having a battered profile, capped with conical stone roof. Designed by Sophia Evans (nee Parnell) in memory of her husband George.ROOF: Corbelled conical stone roof. WALLS: Granite ashlar stone base of tower; remainder being coursed limestone. OPENINGS: Round headed openings with granite ashlar dressing openings and sill.
- Saint Ita's Hospital, nurses' home, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Two terraces of twelve single-storey yellow brick houses, built c.1895. Comprising four-bay houses with gabled and projecting central bays, terminated by three-bay gable-fronted end-of-terrace houses.ROOF: Double pitched; tiled, brick chimney stacks, clay pots; gable-fronted roof to porch, sandstone coping to parapet. WALLS: Yellow brick; English garden wall bond; red sandstone coping to gable-fronted porch. OPENINGS: Chamfered stone lintels and painted stone cills; brick reveals; original timber 1/1 sashes; timber panelled door with chamfered stone lintel.
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 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 Portraine Demesne.
- 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 Portraine Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Portraine Demesne · Diméin Phort Reachrann
- Area
- 1,899,956 m² (190 ha, 469.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donabate, and its townlands
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Electoral division
- Donabate, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donabate electoral division: 11,783 people in 3,900 households; 79% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balcarrick, Ballalease North, Ballymastone, Burrow, Portraine, Quay, Rahillion
- Placenames
- Portraine Demesne 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.