Portauns

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portauns, from 74 m² to 183,501 m² (18.35 ha, 45.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Residential Development Area - Phase 1 (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Residential Service Sites - Phase 1 (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 24 Jun 2026Conditional

  of the wastewater treatment system installed on site, as constructed,

  Retention, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2660713

• 8 Aug 2025Conditional

  a). to construct a new extension to the rear of the house; b). make alterations to the existing house; c). construct a new private garage; d). Construct new dormer windows and porch on the front elevation. e). Decommission of existing & provision of new waste water treatment system and f). all associated site works and services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560790

• 14 Jul 2023Conditional

  the construction of an extension to an existing dwelling house comprising a granny flat, upgrade existing wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23376

• 7 Feb 2022N/a

  the construction and operation of an energy storage system comprising (i) 5 no. containerised energy storage modules placed on concrete plinth foundations; (ii) 5 no. electrical transformer and inverter modules; (iii) heating, ventilation and air conditioning units; (iv) an electrical control building and associated electrical equipment; (v) 320m of site access tracks; (vi) underground electrical and telecommunications cabling; (vii) CCTV security monitoring system; (viii) an up to 2.95m palisade fence around the energy storage system compound; (ix) all ancillary electrical and communications equipment; and (x) all associated site development, drainage and reinstatement works. All

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22129

• 30 Apr 2021Conditional

  a side garage extension to the existing dwelling house and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21581

• 8 Aug 2019Conditional

  the construction of side and rear extensions to their existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19784

• 14 Jun 2019N/a

  construction of side and rear extensions to the dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19578

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Portauns.

Recorded monuments

• LI047-051 Moated site
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, immediately N of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Tobernea East. Pouladragoon Bridge 119m to E. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a large circular-shaped earthwork, intersected at N by a post-1700 field boundary running E-W. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a large sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 93m N-S x 83m E-W) enclosed by a bank, fosse and external bank with gap in outer bank at W. External bank and fosse transected at S by stream running E-W. Described by H. A. Wheeler in 1974 as follows; ‘This appears to be the side of a medieval moated house and to be of considerable archaeological interest’ (SMR file). Monument visible as a large sub-circular area enclosed by a single tree-lined bank with fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Traces of cropmark of levelled inner enclosing bank visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 September 2021

• LI047-088 Leper hospital
  Description

  The field to the E of Spittle Br. on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map may be the location of a leper hospital. Described in the Urban Survey (Bradley et. al. 1989, 165) as following; 'Spital field, about one mile north the site of a leper hospital which may have been in charge of the Order of Knights Hospitallers (Lee 1965, 147-8; Lewis 1837, ii, 173)'. Duplicate site with LI047-105----. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 August 2021

• LI047-105 Leper hospital
  Description

  The field to the E of Spittle Br. on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map may be the location of a leper hospital. Described in the Urban Survey (Bradley et. al. 1989, 165) as following; 'Spital field, about one mile north the site of a leper hospital which may have been in charge of the Order of Knights Hospitallers (Lee 1965, 147-8; Lewis 1837, ii, 173)'. Duplicate site with LI047-088----. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 October 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Portauns, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1003 (ZIP).

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.

• Portauns, Kilmallock7 sales

Name

Portauns · Na Portáin

Area

1,446,295 m² (144.63 ha, 357.39 acres)

Civil parish

St. Peters and St. Pauls, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmallock

Electoral division

Kilmallock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,389 people lived in 962 households in the Kilmallock electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ash Hill, Breesheen North, Gortboy, Graiganster, Tobernea East, Treanlewis

Placenames

Portauns 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.