Portlongfield

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portlongfield, from 172 m² to 251,195 m² (25.12 ha, 62.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Portlongfield 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.

• 12 Aug 2024Conditional

  for a Bungalow Type Dwelling House, Detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Suitable Onsite Treatment System With Polishing Filter And All Ancillary Site Works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460370

• 6 Jun 2018Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18229

• 30 May 2018Conditional

  to demolish existing sheds and replace them with a slatted tank with slurry holding tank underneath. Also construct a four bay shed which will consist of a milking parlour, dairy and a slatted collection yard with slurry holding tank underneath and all associated site works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18223

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: Glasshouse Lake 000983

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Portlongfield.

Architectural heritage

• Killegar House, gate lodge, 1835–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1845, with lean-to return. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with paired eaves brackets, off-centre rendered chimney stack, replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth-rendered plinth. Windows openings with smooth render channel-jointed surrounds below hood mouldings and cut stone sills. Lattice paned cast-iron windows in timber frames to front elevation, replacement uPVC elsewhere. Central doorway with channel-jointed surround and sheeted double leaf doors. Set back from road with replacement gate, demesne entrance leading north-west from lodge.

• Portlongfield Orange Hall, hall, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey Orange hall, built c.1890, with single-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with raised render barge copings, recent rendered chimneystack to rear, replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered wall with smooth raised plinth. Two-over-two timber sash windows with stone sills. Replacement timber sheeted door to rear. Setback from the road with low concrete block boundary wall.

• Seipeal Naomh Treasa, Scoil Naisiunta Port Leamhchoille, school, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey school, built c.1830, with recessed full-height entrance bay to east gable and single-storey flat-roofed porch to west gable. Now also in use as church. Hipped replacement slate roof, hip carried down over entrance bay, rendered chimneystack with projecting cut-stone bands, replacement rainwater goods. Cut-stone cross to east gable facing road. Roughcast rendered walls. Cast-iron lattice windows set in timber frames with stone sills. Six-over-six timber sliding sash window to north gable over porch. Replacement sheeted timber door with replacement lattice-style overlight. Set back and orientated perpendicular to road. Single-storey rubble-stone former toilet block to west. Freestanding cast-iron belfry, manufactured 1868, with cast-iron bell to east and inscribed ‘Sheridan Dublin maker 1868’.

• Post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1890, with 'VR' royal cypher. Curved top and 'LETTERS ONLY' in raised lettering above letter slot with display panel over cypher in intertwined letters beneath. Set in rendered masonry gate pier adjacent to rural crossroads.

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 Portlongfield, about 1 in 20 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

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

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 Portlongfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Portlongfield

Area

3,099,406 m² (309.94 ha, 765.88 acres)

Civil parish

Killashandra, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Springfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

173 people lived in 72 households in the Springfield electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavore (Co. Leitrim), Drumergoole (Co. Leitrim), Drummany, Dunaweel, Kilbrackan (Co. Leitrim), Loughnafin or Rockfield, Sallaghan

Placenames

Portlongfield 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.