# Portduff, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Port Dubh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 495,393 m² (49.54 ha, 122.41 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,438 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castleisland, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/castleisland.md - Barony: Trughanacmy - Electoral division: Lackabaun, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 435 people lived in 164 households in the Lackabaun electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24686 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 72344 - Centre: latitude 52.243325, longitude -9.485615 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portduff, from 86 m² to 212,539 m² (21.25 ha, 52.52 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1225393: 212,539 m² (21.25 ha, 52.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225393.md - Parcel 1202409: 210,235 m² (21.02 ha, 51.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1202409.md - Parcel 4406807: 28,322 m² (2.83 ha, 7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4406807.md - Parcel 4301572: 14,739 m² (1.47 ha, 3.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4301572.md - Parcel 1193347: 11,169 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193347.md - Parcel 4281036: 3,778 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4281036.md - Parcel 1150181: 3,524 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1150181.md - Parcel 1197559: 2,545 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1197559.md - Parcel 1209228: 2,331 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1209228.md - Parcel 5436214: 1,714 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5436214.md - Parcel 4406805: 1,416 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4406805.md - Parcel 5532210: 898 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5532210.md - Parcel 4301645: 692 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4301645.md - Parcel 4463807: 611 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4463807.md - Parcel 4301637: 257 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4301637.md - Parcel 4301634: 86 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4301634.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Portduff in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 18 Mar 2026, Kerry County Council 2651: Conditional. Retention. (01) Retain an existing single storey standalone home office building as constructed, (02) Full Planning Permission to extend the existing dwelling house by constructing a new side and rear single storey extension, (03) Up-grade the existing front porch by removing the existing roof and replace with a new flat roof and parapet with minor elevation changes, (04) Make minor alterations to the existing first floor and ground floor layout of the existing dwelling house to accommodate the proposed new extensions, including all associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2651/0 - 20 Mar 2017, Kerry County Council 17232: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALL A MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/17232/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Portduff. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE039-029: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE039-029----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Portduff. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Portduff, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_233, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_233.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/portduff.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/portduff.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/portduff.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Portduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynaboul: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballynaboul.md - Doolaig South: https://everytownland.com/kerry/doolaig-south.md - Killally: https://everytownland.com/kerry/killally.md - Knockannagore: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockannagore.md - Knockeen: https://everytownland.com/kerry/knockeen-71952.md - Mullaghmarky: https://everytownland.com/kerry/mullaghmarky.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/portduff - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/portduff