Portrushen Lower

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portrushen Lower, from 288 m² to 125,217 m² (12.52 ha, 30.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Portrushen Lower 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.

• 10 Aug 2022N/a

  construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, bored well, secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter, new entrance, and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 22262

• 19 Mar 2021Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a new storey and a half dwelling house together with a new bored well, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and percolation area and demolition and reordering of a derelict dwelling to provide equestrian stable facilities, a stable yard, stores and associated elements on their lands

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2190

• 24 Feb 2020Conditional

  for a) proposed new single storey dwelling, b) new vehicle entrance, c) domestic garage d) domestic well, e) treatment system & percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2058

• 23 Sept 2019Conditional

  the erection of an agricultural entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19376

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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• CW004-045 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GSIAP R6/21) shows possible cropmark of circular enclosure. On the crest of steep SW facing slope. No visible surface traces noted when inspected by ASI in July 1987. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW004-046 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GSIAP R6/22) shows possible cropmark of an earthwork and 1839 OS '6-inch map' indicates curved almost semi-circular field boundary which may represent W half of an enclosure. On slight W facing slope. No visible surface traces noted when inspected by ASI in July 1987. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Portrushen Lower, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Portrushen Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Portrushen Lower · Port Roisín Íochtarach

Area

1,329,675 m² (132.97 ha, 328.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltegan, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Tiknock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

348 people lived in 115 households in the Tiknock electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Borkill More (Co. Wicklow), Portrushen Upper, Tiknock, Tinnaclash

Placenames

Portrushen Lower 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.