Portobello

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portobello, from 71 m² to 379,055 m² (37.91 ha, 93.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Portobello 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.

• 17 Feb 2022Refused

  Permission to erect a new dwelling house, domestic garage and provide a septic tank and percolation area and all associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2288

• 28 Jan 2022N/a

  Permission to erect a new dwelling house, domestic garage and provide a septic tank and percolation area and all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2244

• 3 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission for the following development: 1. Construct slatted livestock unit including dry feed areas, provide concrete aprons, provide 2 No. over ground rainwater harvesting storage tanks; 2. Extend existing roofed manure pit to create feed storage area, provide concrete apron, provide new site boundaries and utilise access road previously granted planning permission under planning ref: PD/12/427 to service the development including all ancillary works necessary to complete the development at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21500

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 Portobello.

Recorded monuments

• RO010-074001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in an undulating landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 33.6m N-S; 29.8m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 5-7m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.5m generally to 1.6m at S) with intermittently visible facing-stones (original Wth 2m at N). The entrance (Wth 2m) is at ENE, and a rectangular enclosure (RO010-074005-), visible as a grass-covered area (int. dims 29m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by grass-covered stone spreads (Wth c. 2m; H 0.5m) is attached to the perimeter at NW. A house site (RO010-074004-), visible as a rectangular platform (dims 8m x 4m; H 0.2m), is attached to the outside of the perimeter at N, while the perimeter at E is truncated slightly by a N-S field wall. There is a second house site (RO010-074003-) just W of the cashel visible as a rectangular area (ext. dims 7m E-W; 4m N-S) defined by earth and stone banks (Wth 1m; H 0.3m) with an entrance at the W end of the S wall. Field system (RO010-074002-) extends off to the W and S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-074002 Field system
  Description

  In an undulating landscape, extending W and S of cashel (RO010-074001). An area of c. 2 ha contains four rectangular fields (dims c. 20-30m N-S; c. 50m E-W), the W ends of which are not evident, and a rectangular enclosure (RO010-074005-), which appears to be co-eval with the fields. The enclosure is attached to the NW of the cashel. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-074003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On an undulating landscape. There is a house site just W of the cashel (RO010-074001-) visible as a rectangular area (ext. dims 7m E-W; 4m N-S) defined by earth and stone banks (Wth 1m; H 0.3m) with an entrance at the W end of the S wall. Field system (RO010-074002-) extends off to the W and S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-074004 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On a rise in an undulating landscape. A rectangular platform (dims 8m x 4m; H 0.2m) is attached to the outside of the perimeter of cashel (RO010-074001-) at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO010-074005 Enclosure
  Description

  In a fold in an undulating landscape, and just NW of cashel (RO010-074001-). Rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 29m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by grass-covered stone spreads (Wth c. 2m; H 0.5m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO016-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low rise in an area of rock outcrop. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 23.2m ENE-WSW; 21.5m NNW-SSE) with the straight NNW-SSE edge (L c. 21m) at W defined by a curving scarp (H 0.6m at E to 1.5m at N) NW-E, which merges into the ground E-S. There is an outer berm (Wth 1m; H 0.25m) NW-N, but there is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO016-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low rise. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 22.5m E-W; 21.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3.3m; int. H 0.25-0.75m; ext. H 0.6-1.1m), which is reduced to a straight scarp (H 0.8m-1.1m) SE-SSW. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but the perimeter is planted with mature deciduous trees. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO016-019 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On top of a low rise. Circular grass-covered and rounded mound (diam. of base 8.5m; H 1.75m) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 1.5m at N to 3.4m at S) and a gapped outer bank (Wth 3.6-4.7m generally to 5.3m at S; int. H 0.05m at N to 0.55m at SW; ext. H 0.75m at SW to 1.9m at S). There is no visible entrance (max. ext. diam. 23m N-S). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), 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 Portobello.

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 Portobello with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Portobello

Area

1,970,573 m² (197.06 ha, 486.94 acres)

Civil parish

Aughrim, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Creeve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Creeve electoral division: 137 people in 54 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Assaun, Attiaghygrana, Castletown, Erriblagh, Kilcolagh, Martry, Ratallen, Runnaboll, Runnaroddaun

Placenames

Portobello 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.