Portlester

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portlester, from 438 m² to 613,605 m² (61.36 ha, 151.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 55 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 Feb 2025Conditional

  alterations to approved planning ref: 24/60725 for development at Portlester, Ballivor. The proposed alterations will consist of 15 sqm total side and rear single-storey extensions including for internal modifications to approved ground floor layout. Proposed finishes to match and align with existing building inclusive of all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560174

• 7 Feb 2025N/a

  alterations to approved planning ref: 24/60725 for development at Portlester, Ballivor. The proposed alterations will consist of 11 sqm total side and rear single-story extensions. Proposed finishes to match and align with existing building inclusive of all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560118

• 10 Sept 2024Conditional

  change of use from private residence to guest house, rear single story extension, attic conversion for storage and 3 rooflights to rear. Proposed finishes to match and align with existing building inclusive of all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460725

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a two storey dwelling and single storey garage with associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460371

• 7 May 2024N/a

  the development will consist of the construction of a two storey dwelling and single storey garage with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460321

• 15 Feb 2024Refused

  change of use from private residence to guest house, rear single story extension, attic conversion for storage and 3 rooflights to rear. Proposed finishes to match and align with existing building inclusive of all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460106

• 5 Feb 2024N/a

  change of use from private residence to guest house, rear single story extension, attic conversion for storage and 3 rooflights to rear. Proposed finishes to match and align with existing building inclusive of all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460072

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: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME035-020 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape with the NW-SE Stonyford River c. 50m to the NE. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'a ruinated castle and bawn about it and a large thatch house and some cottages'. It was owned in 1640 by Sir Luke FitzGerald along with 182 acres there together with other land in Killaconican parish at Crosantown (125 acres), Parkestown (84 acres), Moyfiagher (152 acres) and Muchwood (108 acres) (Simington 1940, 199). There are no visible remains of the castle structure though it possible that elements of it have been incorporated into Portlester House. Two window spandrels of late medieval date have been reused as opposing corner arch stones over an external doorway and a further carved fragment of a lion - probably the crest from a memorial - lies in the rockery adjoining the house; all undoubtedly came from the former fabric of the castle. Portlester House is known to the owners as the site of a castle. Date of revised upload; 9 June, 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2437 (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.

No address of the register names Portlester with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Portlester · Port Leastair

Area

2,392,885 m² (239.29 ha, 591.29 acres)

Civil parish

Killaconnigan, and its townlands

Barony

Lune

Electoral division

Killaconnigan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killaconnigan electoral division: 2,297 people in 779 households; 70% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballivor, Cloncarneel, Clonee, Moyfeagher, Muchwood, Parkstown, Shanco

Placenames

Portlester 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.