Portraine

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portraine, from 60 m² to 149,615 m² (14.96 ha, 36.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 75 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 · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 2 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.

• 6 Jul 2021Grant permission

  Permission for the construction of a 40 sq.m#. garage/shed to the rear

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F21B/0261

• 9 Oct 2019Grant permission for retention

  Retention permission for (a) extension and minor alterations to previo

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F19B/0263

• 21 Jan 2019Grant permission

  The development will consist of (a) Change of use from existing commer

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0018

• 9 Mar 2018Grant permission

  Permission for erection of single storey porch extension to front and

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F17B/0202

• 2 Mar 2017Grant permission

  New detached two storey house to side.

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0554

• 1 Feb 2016Grant permission

  Development consisting of the following: (i) ground floor level (37m²)

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0521

• 21 May 2015Withdraw application

  Alterations to existing single storey structure to include (a) change

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0060

• 13 Dec 2013Grant permission

  2 no.2 storey detached dwellings (3 beds), site access and associated

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F13A/0342

• 13 Feb 2012Withdraw application

  Two storey detached dwelling adjoining no. 24 Longstone Park.

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0028

• 5 Sept 2011Grant permission

  2 No. 2 storey detached dwellings (3 beds), site access and associated

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0328

• 31 Jan 2011Refuse permission

  2 no. 2 storey semi-detached dwellings (3 beds), site access and assoc

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0029

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: Rogerstown Estuary SAC 000208
• Special Protection Area: Rogerstown Estuary SPA 004015
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rogerstown Estuary 000208

Recorded monuments

• DU008-030 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Known as Stella's castle, the tower house is located in a level field of tillage adjacent to St Catherine's housing estate. Inquisition of 1541 describes the castle as having divers buildings including a threshing house, hemp yard and haggard. The Civil survey (1654-6) describes this site as an 'old castle' owned by the 'Parsonage of Portrarne' (Simington 1945, 148). It rises to three storeys with a spiral stairs tower in the NE corner that projects to the E. Built of coursed limestone masonry. Access is blocked (ext. dims.6m E-W; 7.3m N-S). An unusual feature of the entrance on the N side is that the walls either side protrude to offset the doorway and the first floor level over sails the ground floor on this side of the towerhouse. A string course marks the parapet level. The upper portion has 17th century brick additions including a chimney. These may have been efforts to buttress this weakened side. The external east and south facades are exceptionally overgrown with ivy. The entrance passage is defended by a murder hole. There is a barrel vault over the ground floor. It contains an arched recess. There are wall presses and an original fireplace on the first floor. Interior is lit by plain opes in S wall. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 19 December 2014

• DU008-031001 Church
  Description

  St Catherine's church is situated in a small walled graveyard north of road at Portraine village overlooking the Dublin coastline and Lambay Island. The church is rectangular in plan with an undivided nave and chancel, aligned E-W and a battlemented W Tower (int. dims. L 15.30m, Wth 5.35m). The N side of the church is largely re-built. The chancel end is inset on this side. Entrance through a round arched doorway in W end of S wall. Interior is lit by two single light opes in S wall with chamfered limestone jambs. There are sill remains of a wide E window. The W Tower stands to three storeys with a belfry stage and a battered exterior. It has a relatively small interior (int. dims L 3.5m, Wth 2.3m). W window has Y-shaped tracery. First floor is lit by a large plain almost flat arched window in S wall and a slit ope in the E facing wall. Similar opes in the second floor. There are carved heads on the N and S walls of the tower. Described as a ruin in 1630 (Ronan 1941, 68). The Civil survey (1654-6) mentions this as an 'old parish church' on the farm at Portraine (Simington 1945, 149; Mc Mahon 1991, 32). According to the 2011 structural survey, the battlements on the tower have suffered from considerable mortar wash out and require to be repointed. Some areas of exterior and interior arches need re-pointing (Nolan 2011). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 19 December 2014

• DU008-031002 Graveyard
  Description

  A small walled, rectangular graveyard (L50m, Wth 25m) N of road at Portraine village overlooking the Dublin coastline and Lambay Island. It encloses the remains of a medieval church (DU008-031001-), the interior of which has been used for internments. There are 18th, 19th and 20th century grave memorials, running E-W around the church remains. Still in use. Archaeological test excavation was undertaken at the graveyard in advance of the insertion of lighting and associated ducting. Disarticulated human bone, medieval and post-medieval pottery and fragment of worked flint were recovered. Three archaeological deposits including two of shell were identified as well as a section of east-west limestone wall (Hagen 2002). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 19 December 2014

• DU008-031003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  In the 1992 report, a possible bullaun stone was identified within the ground floor of the tower of the medieval church at Portraine (DU008-031001-). It is no longer evident. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 19 December 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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).

No address of the register names Portraine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Portraine · Port Reachrann

Area

446,889 m² (44.69 ha, 110.43 acres)

Civil parish

Portraine, and its townlands

Barony

Nethercross

Electoral division

Donabate, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Burrow, Portraine Demesne, Rahillion

Placenames

Portraine on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.