Port

177 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Port, from 85 m² to 247,442 m² (24.74 ha, 61.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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.

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  A) construction of new side and rear extensions onto existing dwelling house, B) elevation changes and internal alterations to existing dwelling house, C) installation of a new waste water treatment plant and decommission of the original spectic tank, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560141

• 14 Feb 2024Conditional

  the (A) Demolition of existing rear extension to existing dwelling house and decommission existing septic tank, (B) Renovation and construction of an extension to the existing dwelling house, (C) Installation new mechanical aeration unit and percolation system, (d) upgrade existing entrance, constructing new entrance wall and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460117

• 4 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of 1 no. cattle overpass on the newly developed Limerick Greenway for the provision of livestock crossing of the Greenway. The overpass will consist of a concrete culvert above the Greenway surface to allow cattle crossing and to maintain the safety of pedestrian and cyclist users of the Greenway. The existing level of Greenway surface will be retained

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 228001

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  change of house design from that previously approved under planning application reference 19/900 and permission for the re-location of the previously permitted garage on site

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211277

• 30 Jun 2021Conditional

  an extension to side of bungalow and retention permission for domestic garage to rear of bungalow and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21922

• 15 Oct 2020Conditional

  the construction of 6 cattle underpasses and 1 cattle overpass. The underpasses will consist of concrete culverts beneath the Greenway surface to allow cattle crossing and to maintain the safety of pedestrian and cyclist users of the Greenway

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 208006

• 10 Sept 2019Conditional

  a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system, construct a new entrance off existing access road with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 19900

• 6 Jun 2017Conditional

  to (A) demolish existing rear flat roof extension of existing dwelling house (B) construct new single storey extension with elevation changes to existing dwelling house with connection to existing effluent disposal system with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17516

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI042-001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On rocky promontory, between two ravines leading S to Feale River (c. 70m from castle); ground slopes gently upwards to N. No indication of fosse across promontory though area around castle densely overgrown with gorse and bushes. Fragmentary remains of rectangular (12.5m N-S; 9.2m E-W) tower (Donelly 1995, 158-60, plan 55): E, N, and N end of W wall stand to first-floor level, but only NW corner survives at second-floor level; walls heavily ivy-clad, especially E wall. Ground-floor chamber probably had entrance door in S wall and spiral stairs in SW corner, but nothing of either survives. Two slit windows survive in centre of N and E walls; embrasures covered by flat segmental wicker-centred vault. First-floor chamber covered by pointed wicker-centred vault; only N end now survives. Only surviving embrasure at this level is slit window in centre of N wall. At second-floor level stump of NW corner survives. This contains a double recess, covered by plank-centred segmental arches, in the corner with opening in N and W walls; outside openings for these recesses are gone but both likely to be gun loops. In surviving section of N wall is much-ruined window embrasure, covered by plank-centred segmental arch, with gun loop through its W side. Notable feature of exterior elevations are angled recesses: two on N wall and part of one surviving on W wall. These appear to be recesses for downward-angled gun loops though apex of these do not appear now to have openings and are not aligned with gun loops mentioned above. Portrinard Castle described in 1583 Desmond Survey as a round structure (Westropp 1906-7, 237), suggesting castle rebuilt after this date. Downward-splayed gun loops are a feature of late 16th/early 17th century towers (refs), as is the reintroduction of plank-centred embrasure arches. Castle in much the same condition in 1840 as to-day, though at that stage main vault was intact (OSL, vol. 1, 43). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3439 (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. Limerick.

Name

Port · Port Trí Namhad

Area

4,883,292 m² (488.33 ha, 1,206.69 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyfeale, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Port, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Port electoral division: 498 people in 193 households; 89% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacjordan (Co. Kerry), Coolaneelig (Co. Kerry), Craggane (Co. Kerry), Islandboy East (Co. Kerry), Islandboy West (Co. Kerry), Kingsland (Co. Kerry), Knocknasnaa, Moynsha (Co. Kerry), Rathoran (Co. Kerry)

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.