Port

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Port, from 6,737 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres) to 6,737 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Port in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

• 3 Jul 2018Conditional

  (A) Restoration and change of use of existing granary building for use as 2 self contained holiday homes for short term commercial letting including modifications to existing elevations consisting of (i) new velux roof windows; (ii) convert existing opening on south west facing gable into door; (iii) remove existing external staircase to north east facing elevation; (B) new extension to granary building to contain coffee and crafts shop and self contained holiday home for short term commercial letting; (C) restoration and change of use of existing piggery building into laundry / storage area for self contained holiday homes and public toilets; (D) demolition of existing agricultural building and adaption of existing cow byre into storage area; (E) installation of waste water treatment system and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 18131

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Port.

Recorded monuments

• LE027-065 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Located on the E bank of the River Shannon where it takes a slight curve to the W, probably because rock is diverting it. The castle is marked, though not named on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map, and is described as 'Port Castle ruins' on Taylor and Skinner's map of 1788 (Andrews 1969, 234). The site is now occupied by a farmyard and there are no visible remains of a castle at ground level, although it is possible that fabric of a later medieval building such as a tower house could be incorporated into existing buildings. A fragment of a date stone of 1766 from Port Shan House in the boundary of the entrance to the house has the inscription: ‘Laugh Lin / Glyn Undert / ake Er 1766’ (McHugh 2018, 18). According to M’Parlan (1802, 111) Bryan Conyngham was then in residence but by the Griffith Valuation of 1856 George Latimer was the proprietor of the whole townland. Archaeological testing (18E0591) in the vicinity discovered a small spread of burnt stone, but no evidence of the castle came to light (McHugh 2018). See: Excavations.ie 2018:358 See the attached view from the Down Survey barony map (N at left) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 717). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 10 January 2020

• LE027-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of the NE-facing slope of a hill. This is a scrub-covered subcircular area (int. dims 37m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an overgrown, round-topped, steep-sided earthen bank (at N: Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.9-1.95m) which is separated by a fosse (at N: Wth of base 2.8m; ext. D 1.2m) from an outer bank (at N: Wth 4.5m; H 1.1m). There are entrances through both banks with causeways at E (Wth 1.5m) and at SE (Wth 2.1m). The monument is circumscribed by a field bank at E and there is a record of the discovery of a souterrain near it in the 1930s (Blaney 1944, file no. 143). Rath (LE027-067----) is c. 25m to the NE. A magnetic gradiometry survey in the vicinity of both raths produced mixed results with much modern disturbance that is likely to be ploughing and drainage evident. However, running NE from this rath two arcs of positive anomalies c. 5m apart, perhaps as a stone-faced causeway, appear to be leading to the SW quadrant of (LE027-067----). The interior of this rath produced a number of high resistance anomalies, suggesting the presence of a large amount of stone, but no patterns were discernible. (Curran 2015, 8,9) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 8 June 2018

• LE027-067 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the NE-facing slope of a hill. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 24.5m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a round-topped and overgrown, steep-sided earthen bank (at W: Wth 4.45m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m) S-W-N, which is reduced to a scarp elsewhere and which is separated by a fosse (at W: Wth of base 4.15; D 0.75m) from an outer bank (at W: Wth 3.4m; H 0.1m) SW-N. The original entrance is not identified visually. Rath (LE027-066----) is c. 25m to the SW. A magnetic gradiometry survey in the vicinity of both raths produced mixed results with much modern disturbance that is likely to be ploughing and drainage evident. However, a number of features that could be pits or natural hollows were also recorded N of (LE027-067----). Running NE from (LE027-066---) two arcs of positive anomalies c. 5m apart appear to be leading to the SW quadrant of (LE027-067----), perhaps as a causeway with ditches at either side. An earth resistance survey along the E side of this rath can confirm the presence of a bank and outer fosse here, but there is no evidence of an external bank on this side. High resistance anomalies in the interior suggest that whatever features are present have a large stone component, although no pattern could be discerned. A line of high resistance anomalies across the bank and ditch at SE hints at the possibility of an entrance here. (Curran 2015, 8-9) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 8 June 2018

• LE027-145 Burnt spread
  Description

  In 2018, Archaeological test excavations (Excavation Licence No. 18E0591) in advance of a proposed mixed development at Port Townland, Leitrim Village revealed a deposit of blackened peaty clay; a possible charcoal-enriched soil with occasional burnt stone within the matrix of black soil. The material was uncovered 0.2m below the ground surface in a 1m wide test- trench. While not extensive, it was interpreted by the excavator as representing a possible burnt spread in the vicinity. Consequently, proposed works at this location were to be relocated to avoid any potential disturbance to this material. (https://excavations.ie/report/2018/Leitrim/0027094/ Accessed 27 February, 2023.) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 27 February 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1454 (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.

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

Name

Port · An Port

Area

288,218 m² (28.82 ha, 71.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Gowel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gowel electoral division: 360 people in 132 households; 93% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caldragh, Carrickevy, Corhawnagh, Drumheckil, Grange, Tullylannan

Placenames

Port 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.