Portanure

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portanure, from 538 m² to 82,414 m² (8.24 ha, 20.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Portanure 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  to construct a new bungalow type dwelling house, domestic garage, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance to a new vehicular entrance, installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and raised soil polishing filter and all associated ancillary site services. The significant further information includes the submission of a Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.)

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560314

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: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440

Recorded monuments

• LF025-005001 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. Not marked on the 1837 or 1883 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised oval area (c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W) enclosed from SSW-W-N by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 4m; H 0.8m). From N-E-SSE the defining element is a low scarp (H 0.3m). Elsewhere the perimeter is truncated by an ENE-WSW field boundary. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. A low, curvilinear bank defines the SE quadrant of the interior. According to local information, the enclosure was believed to be a burial ground (LF025-005002-).Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 4 February 2012

• LF025-005002 Burial ground
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. Within the SE quadrant of an enclosure (LF025-005001-), which is defined by a low, curvilinear bank. According to local information, this is believed to be an ancient burial place. The ground level of this area is higher than the rest of the interior of the enclosure but no grave-markers are visible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF025-006 Bawn
  Description

  Associated with a fortified house (LF025-006001-). On the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map this rectangular bawn (c. 63m ENE–WSW; c. 42m NNW–SSE), possibly of late 16th/early 17th-century date, is shown intact. A building protruding from the centre of the E wall may have been a gatehouse or the fortified house. Angle towers are evident on all four corners. On the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1911), the S half of the E wall and most of the S wall do not survive. Only two angle towers are shown: a circular one at the SE corner and a square-shaped one at SW. A building occupies the NE angle of the interior. When visited in 1976 (SMR file) the bawn (H c. 4m) was very ruined but good sections of the walls remained in place on the E, S and W sides. Sections of the W and N walls had been partly rebuilt. Both of the angle towers (H SE tower c. 4m) survived and gun loops were evident on the ground floors of both. The interior was used as a farmyard and a house was built in the NE corner. Little now survives of the E wall and its S half has been re-pointed in recent years. Most of the S wall has been levelled and only a short section of its E end survives. Sheds have been built against the interior of the W wall. The N wall is intact for most of its length but it has been reduced to half of its original height. The angle tower (ext. diam. c. 4.4m) at SE survives to a height of two storeys. It is constructed of uncoursed rubble limestone. Gun loops are evident on both floor levels and there is a narrow, slit ope on the first floor. No visible surface trace of the SW angle tower survives; a haybarn occupies its site. The interior is still used as a farmyard and a number of outbuildings have been constructed within it. A dovecote (LF025-007----) lies c. 60m to the SSE. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 September 2012

• LF025-007 Dovecote
  Description

  Possibly associated with a late 16th/early 17th century bawn (LF025-006----) that lies c. 60m to the NNW. This circular tower (int. diam. 3.23m; wall T 0.75m; ext. H 3m) is built of uncoursed limestone rubble and it survives to string-course level. It is accessed through a flat-headed rebuilt doorway (Wth 1.25m) at NW, which faces towards the bawn wall. Internally six rows of rectangular nesting boxes (H 0.22; Wth 0.22; D 0.44m) are visible. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 February 2013

Architectural heritage

• Dovecote/pigeon house/aviary, 1650–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Dovecote on circular-plan, built c. 1700. Constructed of rubble limestone with cut stone coping over. Square-headed doorway to the north. Cut stone nesting boxes to interior. Located to the south of the remains of Portanure Castle (LF025-006----) and bawn, and to the west of Ballymahon.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Portanure.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Portanure.

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 Portanure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Portanure · Port an Iúir

Area

1,495,015 m² (149.5 ha, 369.43 acres)

Civil parish

Cashel, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Cashel West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartoon, Cleraun, Corrool (Kenny), Lismagawley, Tipper

Placenames

Portanure 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.