Portane
Townland in the civil parish of Oola, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Portán
- Area
- 55.2 ha
- 137 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 2,823 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portane, from 61 m² to 228,195 m² (22.82 ha, 56.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Portane 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Jun 2023Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance, garage and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2360467
12 Nov 2021Refused
a 10-year permission and 35 year operation for a solar farm on four land parcels as described herein; North Parcel(Gortnakistin townland) approximately 23.78 hectares, Central Parcel(Ballyvalode & Keeloges townlands) approximately 43.49 hectares, South Central Parcel(Gortyvahane and Moanroe townlands) approximately 34.7 hectares, South Parcel(Garryduff, Moanroe, Moanoola and Kilmacogue townland) approximately 39.27 hectares. The Central Parcel, South Central Parcel and South Parcel are collectively referred to as the Main Solar Farm; a route corridor of 0.58 hectares for an underground internal network cable along the R507 and L5040 public roads for approximately 600 metres and within the solar farm lands for approximately 1,260 metres. The total site area for the proposed development is approximately 141.8 hectares. The proposed development on these parcels comprises of 755,000sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; inverter/transformer stations; underground power and communication cables and ducts; boundary security fencing; new internal access tracks; associated drainage infrastructure; site entrances to the R507 public road(site entrance to main solar farm) and the L5040 public local road(North Parcel); CCTV cameras and all associated site services and works. Works for the internal network cable comprise trenching for an underground medium voltage electrical cable and associated joint bays and infrastructure, for a distance of approximately 560 metres on the R507 Regional Road, approximately 100 metres on the L5040 Local Road and approximately 1,260m within the solar farm lands. As part of a separate Strategic Infrastructure Development(SID) planning application provision of a 110kV electrical substation with electrical control building, associated compound with palisade fence and 2no. overhead line masts, which is to be located within the main solar farm, will be lodged with An Bord Pleanála in due course. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211565
16 Apr 2021Conditional
construction of a domestic garage and ancillary works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21496
18 Sept 2020Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20941
19 Dec 2018Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, site entrance, and install a packaged waste water treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 181246
3 Aug 2018Conditional
the construction of an extension to the side and front of the original dwelling and Planning Permission is sought for a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 18787
21 Apr 2017N/a
a side extension which extends out past the front building line of the original dwelling house and all associated ancillary works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 17356
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Portane.
Recorded monuments
- LI025-028 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In gently undulating pasture, with excellent views from the NW to SW to SE and restricted view to the NE. The townland boundary with Keeloges lies 115m to E with an earthwork (LI025-037----) 500m to SE. The site is depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and is not depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The ring-barrow (ext. dims. 31m N-S; 33m E-W) is visible as a circular-shaped area with an external fosse on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Inspected by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (int. diam. 20m) defined by a scarped edge with a shallow and wide external fosse (Wth 5.3m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.3m). The interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth. The fosse is less obvious from the SE to SW to NW. No entrance present. The ring-barrow is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/05/2002 and 18/11/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 2 October 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Portane.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Portane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Portane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Portane · An Portán
- Area
- 552,494 m² (55.25 ha, 136.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oola, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Oola, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Oola electoral division: 1,119 people in 427 households; 82% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvalode, Carrig Beg, Carrig More, Gortnakistin, Keeloges
- Placenames
- Portane 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.