Portanab
Townland in the civil parish of Kildalkey, barony of Lune, Co. Meath; in Irish Port an Aba
- Area
- 228.6 ha
- 565 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 7,058 m² (0.71 ha, 1.74 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portanab, from 214 m² to 465,354 m² (46.54 ha, 114.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 71 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 May 2022Conditional
the development will consist of the following: 1. Demolition of existing dwelling and storage shed. 2. Construction of new detached replacement dwelling. 3. The installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area. 4. Landscaping, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 22597
22 Dec 2021Conditional
the development will consist of single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new proprietary waste water treatment system, polishing filter and driveway. The development also includes modifications/relocation of existing agricultural entrance to form new dual entrance to incorporate separate domestic entrance and gateway to access agricultural lands to the rear together with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 212400
16 Apr 2021N/a
the development will consist of single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance and driveway. The development also includes the installation of new proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21726
24 Jul 2020Conditional
the construction of dwelling, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA200981
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 Portanab.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Portanab.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Portanab.
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 10 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 Portanab.
- 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 Portanab with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Portanab · Port an Aba
- Area
- 2,286,056 m² (228.61 ha, 564.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildalkey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Lune
- Electoral division
- Kildalkey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kildalkey electoral division: 1,363 people in 435 households; 90% of households own their home; 57% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghtalion, Cloncarneel, Corballis, Moyrath, Pubblestown, Shanco
- Placenames
- Portanab 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.