Portboy

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portboy, from 2,081 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 187,188 m² (18.72 ha, 46.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Portboy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Portboy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Herbertstown Fen 000436

Recorded monuments

• LI032-259 Earthwork
  Description

  On a N-facing slope, in improved pasture, 275m NE of a townland boundary with Ballynamona and 630m NW of the Ballynamona River. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 193: AP 4/3609) as a semicircular-shaped earthwork to the immediate W of a field boundary running N-S. Possible monument is visible as an oval-shaped scrub covered area (27 NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013. This location appears to have been cleared of scrub as seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 04/04/13 and is thereafter visible as a damp area, a wet patch and as an eroded area of ground as seen on Google Earth orthoimages 25/05/2017, 20/03/2018 and 28/06/2018, respectively, suggesting that this is more likely to be a natural feature. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 193 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 21 November 2020

• LI032-261 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture, 50m NE of a townland boundary with Ballynamona and 345m NW of the Ballynamona River. A complex of contiguous barrows (LI032-289/290/291/292/293----) lie 335m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 230: AP 5/2018) as a faint roughly oval-shaped cropmark to the immediate NW of a farmyard. Levelled monument is visible as a faint roughly oval-shaped cropmark (16m NW-SE; 14m NE-SW) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 20/03/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 230 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 21 November 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Portboy.

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 Portboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Portboy · An Port Buí

Area

556,787 m² (55.68 ha, 137.59 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynamona, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Hospital, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Hospital electoral division: 1,296 people in 494 households; 75% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinard, Ballincurra, Ballyloundash, Ballynagranagh, Ballynamona

Placenames

Portboy 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.