Portmagee

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portmagee, from 279 m² to 80,225 m² (8.02 ha, 19.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

• O1Strategic Reserve, White Land (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Kenmare Municipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kenmare Municipal District Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Jul 2025Conditional

  (a) retention permission to retain the demolition of the existing old dwelling house and to retain partially constructed new dwelling house, and (b) permission to demolish the remaining part of the existing old dwelling house, complete the construction of the new dwelling house, and to decommission the existing septic tank and install a new mechanical wastewater treatment system with sand polishing filter, and all associated site works.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560591

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  (A) RETAIN STORAGE BUILDING AS CONSTRUCTED AND (B) RETAIN CHANGE OF USE OF STORAGE BUILDING TO A SHORT TERM LETTING HOLIDAY HOME (C) RETAIN SEPTIC TANK AND PLANNING PERMISSION TO INSTALL A PURAFLO TYPE POLISHING FILTER WITH THREE PODS UNITS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231194

• 20 Jun 2023Conditional

  DEVELOP A GLAMPING AREA CONTAINING FIVE PODS SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND TO INSTALL P.V. PANELS AND TO UPGADE EXISTING FARM ACCESS ROAD AND RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN SPLAYED ENTRANCE TO ACCESS ROAD

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 23698

• 15 Mar 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19256

• 21 May 2018Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING SLATTED LIVESTOCK UNIT, (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING OLD MILKING COMPLEX AND (C) CONSTRUCT IN ITS PLACE A NEW EASY FEED SLATTED LIVESTOCK UNIT. THE PROPOSED STRUCTURE TO INCORPORATE ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK WITH 2 EXTERNAL AGTATION POINTS. THE ABOVE TO BE CARRIED OUT WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18475

• 12 Dec 2017Conditional

  CHANGE USE OF HOSTEL TO 6 HOLIDAY HOMES

  Permission, 6 homes · Kerry County Council, 171239

• 6 Apr 2017N/a

  CHANGE USE OF HOSTEL TO 6 DWELLING HOUSES, INSTALL 6 STORAGE SHEDS AND PROVIDE PUBLIC AND OPEN SPACES

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 17302

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: Valencia Harbour/Portmagee Channel SAC 002262

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Portmagee.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Portmagee, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2 (ZIP).

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 Portmagee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Portmagee

Area

578,080 m² (57.81 ha, 142.85 acres)

Civil parish

Killemlagh, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Portmagee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

365 people lived in 151 households in the Portmagee electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doory, Reencaheragh

Placenames

Portmagee 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.