Portavarrig

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portavarrig, from 11,312 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres) to 227,312 m² (22.73 ha, 56.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Portavarrig 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.

• 18 Nov 2015Conditional

  Construction of a wind farm of up to seven wind turbines with a maximum ground to blade tip height of up to 140m, upgrade of existing tracks and provision of new site tracks, three borrow pits, all associated drainage, construction of an electrical substation including a control building, with welfare facilities, electrical infrastructure, fencing and landscaping, 1 no. construction site compound, underground electrical cabling, underground grid connection electrical cabling, 1 no. permanent meteorological mast up to 90m in height, permanent signage, minor junction accommodation works for the proposed turbine delivery route and associated all ancillary infrastructure located at the townlands of Ballyogaha West, Peafield, Portavarrig, Oldcourt, Ballynona North, Walshtown More (West), Walshtown Beg, Shanavougha, Glenreagh, Glenawillin, Ballyreardon, Ballytrasna, Rathgire, Oldcourt East, Templenacarriga South, Knocknamouragh, Ballymacsliney, Ballyedmond and Carrigogna.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6587

• 22 May 2013Refused

  Construction of a wind farm consisting of 11 no. turbines (each with a maximum tip height of 156.5m), a sub-station including 1no. control building and associated internal equipment, septic tank and percolation area, 3no. borrow pits, a meteorological mast, new internal access roads, upgrading of existing internal access roads, underground cables and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4959

• 9 May 2013Incompleted application

  Wind farm consisting of 11no. turbines (each with a maximum tip height of 156.5m), a sub-station including 1no. control building and associated internal equipment, septic tank and percolation area, 3no. borrow pits, a meteorological mast, new internal access roads, upgrading of existing internal access roads, underground cables and ancillary work

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4868

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 Portavarrig.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Portavarrig.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Portavarrig, 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

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

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 Portavarrig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Portavarrig · Port an Bharraigh

Area

640,449 m² (64.04 ha, 158.26 acres)

Civil parish

Templebodan, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Templebodan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

709 people lived in 202 households in the Templebodan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynona North, Ballyogaha East, Barrafohona, Peafield

Placenames

Portavarrig 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.