# Portinch, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Emlaghfad, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo; in Irish Port Inse.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 744,748 m² (74.47 ha, 184.03 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 22,214 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Emlaghfad, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/emlaghfad.md
- Barony: Corran
- Electoral division: Owenmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 102 people lived in 45 households in the Owenmore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45710
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 201069
- Centre: latitude 54.100401, longitude -8.572611 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Portinch, from 892 m² to 249,331 m² (24.93 ha, 61.61 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 726886: 249,331 m² (24.93 ha, 61.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/726886.md
- Parcel 775708: 105,564 m² (10.56 ha, 26.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775708.md
- Parcel 775806: 48,948 m² (4.89 ha, 12.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775806.md
- Parcel 733137: 44,036 m² (4.4 ha, 10.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/733137.md
- Parcel 775810: 34,397 m² (3.44 ha, 8.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775810.md
- Parcel 733131: 33,602 m² (3.36 ha, 8.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/733131.md
- Parcel 775809: 32,775 m² (3.28 ha, 8.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775809.md
- Parcel 733138: 29,068 m² (2.91 ha, 7.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/733138.md
- Parcel 775808: 28,311 m² (2.83 ha, 7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775808.md
- Parcel 733133: 22,214 m² (2.22 ha, 5.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/733133.md
- Parcel 733132: 16,878 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/733132.md
- Parcel 775807: 15,355 m² (1.54 ha, 3.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775807.md
- Parcel 775710: 8,315 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775710.md
- Parcel 733134: 6,653 m² (0.67 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/733134.md
- Parcel 775811: 5,669 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775811.md
- Parcel 733135: 3,753 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/733135.md
- Parcel 774718: 3,745 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774718.md
- Parcel 2636083: 3,741 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2636083.md
- Parcel 733136: 892 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/733136.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Portinch in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 1 Apr 2021, Sligo County Council 21113: Refused. Permission. development consisting of the construction of one wind turbine up to 5MW with overall tip height of up to 180m; Construct the wind turbine foundation, hard standing and assembly area; Provide a site entrance and an access track within the site; Construct an on-site 20kV substation and underground electrical cable; Install a 7.9km underground grid connection, which passes throught the following townlands: Rathbaun, Templehouse Demesne, Kilbrattan, Portinch, Emlaghnaghtan, Cartron (Percival), Cartron (Phibbs), Lecarrow, Carrowkeel, Cloonkeevy, Ballybrennan, connecting into the existing ESB Substation; and construct all associated site development and ancillary works. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared with this planning application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/21113/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Templehouse and Cloonacleigha Loughs SAC, site code 000636, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000636
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Templehouse And Cloonacleigha Loughs, site code 000636

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- SL033-212: Burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL033-212----. Human remains, aligned E-W, which had been exposed on the N side of a cut-in lane for c. 20 years, were inspected in 1990 by NMI personnel and remain in situ (NMI). There were approximatley five burials exposed in an area c. 25m long (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). A cairn (SL033-212001-) lies c. 15m to NW. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 513) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL033-212001: Cairn - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL033-212001-. In pasture, on a slight rise. A cairn (diam. 4.5m; H 1.65m), with steep sides and a rounded top, is crossed by a N-S field boundary. A burial ground (SL033-212----) lies c. 15m to SE. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Portinch, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Portinch.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/portinch.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/portinch.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/portinch.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Portinch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Cartron (Percival): https://everytownland.com/sligo/cartron-percival.md
- Emlaghnaghtan: https://everytownland.com/sligo/emlaghnaghtan.md
- Kilbrattan: https://everytownland.com/sligo/kilbrattan.md
- Rathbaun: https://everytownland.com/sligo/rathbaun.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/sligo/portinch
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/portinch