Portaghard

120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portaghard, from 18 m² to 246,607 m² (24.66 ha, 60.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Portaghard 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 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated siteworks at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22137

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 Portaghard.

Recorded monuments

• RO015-019001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope. D-shaped grass and scrub-covered area (dims 12.7m E-W; 10.4m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.5-0.8m), with some grave-markers protruding through the sod. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO015-062 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Marked on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map as a circular wooded feature (diam. c. 90m), and situated on a slight knoll. Circular area planted with deciduous trees, defined by a stone walls and field banks. 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 Portaghard.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Portaghard · An Portach Ard

Area

2,130,571 m² (213.06 ha, 526.48 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Frenchpark, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Frenchpark electoral division: 1,018 people in 391 households; 72% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloggarnagh, Frenchpark Demesne, Glebe East, Mullen, Raheely, Rathkeery, Sheepwalk, Turlagharee, Turlaghnamaddy

Placenames

Portaghard 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.