Portland

117 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portland, from 68 m² to 337,536 m² (33.75 ha, 83.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Portland 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.

• 7 Jul 2025Conditional

  machinery/general purpose store and all associated site work

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25133

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  a walled silage pit, silage apron, ancillary concrete yard and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24296

• 15 Aug 2024Conditional

  existing dwelling house, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works on revised site boundaries (Previous Reference no. 5114804)

  Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460674

• 5 Oct 2023Conditional

  demolition of an existing annex (greenhouse) to side (east) elevation and construction of a single storey extension in lieu of demolished structure and all associated external site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23265

• 2 Aug 2022Conditional

  a proposed split level two-storey dwelling, a domestic garage outbuilding, a proposed wastewater treatment system, with a raised percolation area, all associated siteworks including a site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22496

• 27 Jan 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey detached dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance and all ancillary site works thereto

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2175

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  Construction of single storey extensions to the side (south west) and rear (north west) of my existing dwelling and all ancillary site works thereto

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20289

• 11 Mar 2020Conditional

  a new four bed dwelling house with domestic garage, site access, on site sewage treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20228

• 3 Jul 2019Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to the north eastern side of existing dwelling comprising 1 no. bedroom, en-suite bathroom and all ancillary site works thereto

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600744

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 Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216

Recorded monuments

• TN004-008001 Church
  Description

  National Monument No. 451. Situated on high ground in undulating countryside with extensive views. A rectangular late medieval church (ext. dims. 8.3m N-S; 9.86m E-W; wall T 1.13m) with a barrel-vaulted priest's chamber (ext. dims. 6.98m N-S; 8.91m E-W; wall T 1.3m) at the W end of church. The walls are constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble with base-batter at the W end to support the barrel vault of the priest's chamber. There is a single-light ogee-headed window in the E gable with possible decorated spandrels. The side-walls and barrel-vaulted chamber have all been rebuilt by the OPW in 1990. A two-centred doorway was inserted into the S wall at the W end and a similar doorway has been inserted into the E wall of the priest's chamber. The two doorways and two slit windows in the E wall of the priest's chamber opening onto the W end of the church appear to be of modern date. According to local tradition the graveyard (TN004-008002) was located to the S of the church and was used as a burial ground until the early 1800s. All that survives of the graveyard is a slight scarp possibly indicating the graveyard boundary. There are no remains of any burial markers in the area to the S of the church. According to Gleeson (1951-2, 105) the church was a chantry rather than a parish church possibly associated with the MacEgan family and the graveyard, which was gone in his time, was used as a place for burying unbaptised children (TN004-008003). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN004-008002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on high ground in undulating countryside with extensive views. A rectangular late medieval church (ext. dims. 8.3m N-S; 9.86m E-W; wall T 1.13m) with a barrel-vaulted priest's chamber (ext. dims. 6.98m N-S; 8.91m E-W; wall T 1.3m) at the W end of church. The walls are constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble with base-batter at the W end to support the barrel vault of the priest's chamber. There is a single-light ogee-headed window in the E gable with possible decorated spandrels. The side-walls and barrel-vaulted chamber have all been rebuilt by the OPW in 1990. A two-centred doorway was inserted into the S wall at the W end and a similar doorway has been inserted into the E wall of the priest's chamber. The two doorways and two slit windows in the E wall of the priest's chamber opening onto the W end of the church appear to be of modern date. According to local tradition the graveyard (TN004-008002) was located to the S of the church and was used as a burial ground until the early 1800s. All that survives of the graveyard is a slight scarp possibly indicating the graveyard boundary. There are no remains of any burial markers in the area to the S of the church. According to Gleeson (1951-2, 105) the church was a chantry rather than a parish church possibly associated with the MacEgan family and the graveyard, which was gone in his time, was used as a place for burying unbaptised children. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN004-008003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated on high ground in undulating countryside with extensive views. A rectangular late medieval church (TN004-008001) with a barrel-vaulted priest's chamber at the W end of church. The walls are constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble with base-batter at the W end to support the barrel vault of the priest's chamber. According to local tradition the graveyard (TN004-008002) was located to the S of the church and was used as a burial ground until the early 1800s. All that survives of the graveyard is a slight scarp possibly indicating the graveyard boundary. There are no remains of any burial markers in the area to the S of the church. According to Gleeson (1951-2, 105) the church was a chantry rather than a parish church possibly associated with the MacEgan family and the graveyard, which was gone in his time, was used as a place for burying unbaptised children. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN004-051 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  On a hill with extensive views, particular overlooking Lough Derg to the S, in pasture. On the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map this area is shown as being part of Portland House demesne. A stone seat with a curving back, 5-6 courses high, constructed of mortared rubble limestone walling, with a round-profile cement capping. There is a step up to the seat which consists of a single limestone slab. It is likely to have been built as a viewing point on the Portland estate in the 18th/19th century. See attached photographs: TN004-051----_01 showing front of seat TN004-051----_02 showing back of seat Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 January 2023

Architectural heritage

• Portland House, country house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey over basement country house, c.1820, having advanced end bays and bowed bay to south. Now roofless and with temporary roof to ground floor, and having rendered brick chimneystacks. Rendered coursed limestone rubble walls with ashlar limestone quoins, plinth, cornice, eaves band, sill course to first floor, string course to rear elevation and moulded parapet. Cut-stone surrounds to openings, with cornice to ground floor windows of south elevation and to entrance doors in northern advanced bay and in bowed bay. Replacement timber doors and windows to ground floor only. Ha-ha to south of house with limestone coping and cut limestone steps. Remains of walled garden to northwest, incorporating single-storey outbuilding. Dormered single-storey lodge at original entrance to demesne, recently renovated.

• Portland Harbour, harbour/dock/port, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Inland harbour, built c.1810, of rectangular plan, with outlet to River Shannon. Coursed dressed limestone walls. Saw mill buildings and house, originally associated with harbour, no longer in use.

• Kiln, 1930–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of detached sawmill buildings, built c.1945. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs, one with metal chimneystack. One building with concrete walls, others with timber clapboard sides. Timber drying kilns and boiler to concrete-walled building, open storage and sawing workshops to others. Kiln building has rare steel locking mechanisms to doors. Timber clapboard office to southwest with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Four-bay two-storey house to northeast with pitched slate roof, two-over-two pane and some six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Complex sited adjacent to inland harbour to and from which goods were transported along River Shannon.

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 Portland, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1408 (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.

• Portland, Lorrha9 sales

Name

Portland · Port Tulcháin

Area

4,288,228 m² (428.82 ha, 1,059.64 acres)

Civil parish

Lorrha, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Lorrha West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

321 people lived in 125 households in the Lorrha West electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Bredagh, Lehinch, Portland Little

Placenames

Portland 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.