Portan
Portan is a townland in the civil parish of Killaconnigan, barony of Lune, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is An Portán.
Parcel 207087
- Area
- 152,717 m² (15.27 ha, 37.74 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- P5 RA - Rural Area (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied)) The objective
- Townland
- Portan
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- ME041-026 Moated site
Description
Situated on the W bank of a S-N section of the River Boyne with the stream c. 75m to the SE. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 35m ENE-WSW; c. 30m NNW-SSE) defined by wide fosse or moat features (Wth c. 4m) on every side except the SE where it is lighter, is visible on Google Earth (07/07/2016; 06/06/2018; 29/06/2018). There is a rectangular cellar/pit (dims c. 10m WNW-ESE; c. 10m NNE-SSW) in the interior. It was first reported by Jean-Charles Caillere. See the attached view from Google Earth (29/06/2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 June 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2438 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 158.4 ha
- 391 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 47,171 m² (4.72 ha, 11.66 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portan, from 52 m² to 152,717 m² (15.27 ha, 37.74 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 44 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
18 Dec 2023Conditional
the proposed construction of single storey dwelling house and domestic garage, associated wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 231141
25 Apr 2023N/a
the construction of dwelling, new entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23449
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: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
- ME041-026 Moated site
Description
Situated on the W bank of a S-N section of the River Boyne with the stream c. 75m to the SE. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 35m ENE-WSW; c. 30m NNW-SSE) defined by wide fosse or moat features (Wth c. 4m) on every side except the SE where it is lighter, is visible on Google Earth (07/07/2016; 06/06/2018; 29/06/2018). There is a rectangular cellar/pit (dims c. 10m WNW-ESE; c. 10m NNE-SSW) in the interior. It was first reported by Jean-Charles Caillere. See the attached view from Google Earth (29/06/2018) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 June 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Portan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Portan, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2386 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Portan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Portan · An Portán
- Area
- 1,583,713 m² (158.37 ha, 391.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaconnigan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Lune
- Electoral division
- Killyon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 595 people lived in 197 households in the Killyon electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Portan 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.