Portacloy

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portacloy, from 250 m² to 3,429,886 m² (342.99 ha, 847.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Portacloy 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.

• 19 Aug 2026N/a

  The development will consist of: 1. The installation of approximately 1km of 90mm OD water trunk main, which will extend from the junction of Portacloy road and the R314 into the village of Portacloy. 2. The installation of approximately 6.2km of 90mm OD water trunk main, which will extend from the Porturlin road and the L5246 road junction into the village of Porturlin and continue to the village of Sraghataggle. 3. The installation of approximately 13.8Km of 63mm OD water distribution mains to supply water to Carrownaglogh, Carrowteige, Portacloy, Purtarlin and Srahataggle. 4. All associated temporary site development works to gain access including clearance of vegetation, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/ piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, walls, and hedging; and 5. Other temporary associated and ancillary development works required for the purposes of the proposed watermain, including the installation of stone tracks and temporary watercourse crossings. The proposed watermain pipeline is located in the townlands of Carrowglogh, Carrowteige, Portacloy, Curraunboy, Purtarlin, Srahataggle in County Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660661

• 29 Jul 2026N/a

  The development will consist of: 1. The installation of approximately 1km of 90mm OD water trunk main, which will extend from the junction of Portacloy road and the R314 into the village of Portacloy. 2. The installation of approximately 6.2km of 90mm OD water trunk main, which will extend from the Porturlin road and the L5246 road junction into the village of Porturlin and continue to the village of Sraghataggle. 3. The installation of approximately 13.8Km of 63mm OD water distribution mains to supply water to Carrownaglogh, Carrowteige, Portacloy, Purtarlin and Srahataggle. 4. All associated temporary site development works to gain access including clearance of vegetation, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/ piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, walls, and hedging; and 5. Other temporary associated and ancillary development works required for the purposes of the proposed watermain, including the installation of stone tracks and temporary watercourse crossings.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660611

• 15 Mar 2024Conditional

  Full Planning Permission for Renovation and extension of existing cottage to include: (1) Extension to existing cottage and (2) proposed effluent treatment system and percolation area with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460145

• 1 Sept 2022Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING GARAGE/SHED ON SITE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW GARAGE. INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22747

• 2 Jan 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 192

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 171027

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: Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC 000500
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenamoy Bog Complex 000500

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Portacloy.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Portacloy, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Portacloy.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Portacloy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Portacloy · Port an Chlóidh

Area

4,011,218 m² (401.12 ha, 991.19 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Knockadaff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

314 people lived in 126 households in the Knockadaff electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownaglogh, Curraunboy, Garterhill, Porturlin

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Portacloy 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.