Portcrusha
Townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish Port Croise
- Area
- 115.7 ha
- 286 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 1,836 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portcrusha, from 889 m² to 307,512 m² (30.75 ha, 75.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Portcrusha 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
21 Jan 2026Refused
constructed single storey dwelling and shed, Permission for construction of single storey extension to the dwelling to be retained, utilisation of existing shared entrance, onsite wastewater treatment system, connection to necessary services together with all associated incidental ancillary and site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660045
28 Nov 2023N/a
the construction of a vehicular entrance off private driveway, dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system & polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360875
25 Sept 2020Conditional
construction of detached domestic garage together with all associated incidental and site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20963
8 Nov 2019Conditional
a single storey extension to the rear of the house
Permission · Limerick County Council, 191101
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Portcrusha.
Architectural heritage
- Mona Lodge, country house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, comprising single-bay single-storey extensions to east and west elevations. Pitched slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having six-over-six timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed door opening. Square-plan roughcast rendered pier and boundary walls with render copings to site.
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
- About 1 in 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1086 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Portcrusha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Portcrusha · Port Croise
- Area
- 1,156,773 m² (115.68 ha, 285.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stradbally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Castleconnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleconnell electoral division: 3,607 people in 1,298 households; 75% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolready, Derrylusk, Lacka, Montpelier
- Placenames
- Portcrusha 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.