Portinaghy

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portinaghy, from 1,480 m² to 281,621 m² (28.16 ha, 69.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Portinaghy 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.

• 21 Aug 2025Refused

  planning permission to retain existing single-storey structure, currently utilised for recreational sauna purposes

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2560335

• 31 May 2024Conditional

  permission to construct a single storey office structure incorporating reception area, sanitary accommodation, storage/meeting room accessed via existing entrance, connection to existing utilities plus associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460197

• 21 Jun 2022Conditional

  permission to construct a new general purpose store adjacent to the existing water treatment plant, use existing site entrance together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22281

• 21 Jun 2018Conditional

  Permission to undertake upgrading works at Emy Lough swimming area. Upgrading works to swimming area to include the removal in part of existing sloped stone area and replace with sand material, together with stepped concrete approach to swimming area, changing hut, public seating, upgrading of litter bins etc plus associated site works. Emy Lough is designated as an area of secondary amenity. Significant Further information relates to submission of an ecology report.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18284

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Emy Lough 000558

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Portinaghy.

Architectural heritage

• Portinaghy House, house, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, having return to rear (east) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, replacement rainwater goods and recent square roof-lights. Coursed rubble limestone walls having cut limestone block-and-start quoins, traces of render visible to walls. Gauged brick square-headed window openings throughout with red brick surrounds, render reveals, painted masonry sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Cast-iron bars to ground floor windows. Gauged brick three-centred-arch door opening to front elevation having replacement uPVC door, side-lights and fanlight. Gauged brick square-headed door opening to side (south) elevation with red-brick surround and replacement uPVC door. Lean-to rendered porch to rear having square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door. Cast-iron double-leaf gate, flanked by cast-iron gate posts and single-leaf pedestrian gates, to south-west of house. Single-leaf cast-iron gate to south of house. Eight-bay two-storey outbuilding to rear, having pitched slate roof, coursed rubble limestone walls and render flight of steps to front. Gauged-brick square-headed openings with red brick surrounds and timber fittings. Gauged-brick three-centred-arch having red brick surrounds. Pair of square-plan tooled limestone piers with stone capping and cast-iron gate adjoining front (west) elevation of outbuilding.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Portinaghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Portinaghy · Port an Achaidh

Area

537,138 m² (53.71 ha, 132.73 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Emyvale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Emyvale electoral division: 1,158 people in 446 households; 67% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaboy, Derrygassan Lower, Derrylea, Desert, Emy, Killyrean Lower, Knockaphubble, Pullis, Tiramoan

Placenames

Portinaghy 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.