# Portboy, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballynamona, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Port Buí.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 556,787 m² (55.68 ha, 137.59 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,480 m² (2.85 ha, 7.04 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballynamona, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/ballynamona.md
- Barony: Smallcounty
- Electoral division: Hospital, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30961
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121694
- Centre: latitude 52.509068, longitude -8.447446 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1663280: 187,188 m² (18.72 ha, 46.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663280.md
- Parcel 1625499: 162,734 m² (16.27 ha, 40.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625499.md
- Parcel 1642438: 135,268 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642438.md
- Parcel 1625500: 28,480 m² (2.85 ha, 7.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625500.md
- Parcel 6179840: 4,005 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6179840.md
- Parcel 1674405: 2,475 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674405.md
- Parcel 1658050: 2,081 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658050.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Herbertstown Fen, site code 000436

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI032-259: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI032-259----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI032-261----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/portboy.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/portboy.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/portboy.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Portboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballinard: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinard.md
- Ballincurra: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballincurra-120093.md
- Ballyloundash: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyloundash.md
- Ballynagranagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynagranagh.md
- Ballynamona: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynamona-120354.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/portboy
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/portboy