Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen · CC BY-SA 4.0Portmagee has nothing on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage yet
Portmagee has kept more old homes than most towns: 7.4% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. 5.6% of Portmagee’s homes were built in 2011 or later; the typical town has 5.8%.
Heritage near Portmagee
The nearest towns with buildings of national importance, within 25 km.
| Town | Distance | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cahirciveen | 12 km | 8 | 1 | 17 |
Portmagee’s building boom came from 1946 to 1980: 32% of its homes
In Portmagee, homes from before 2001 outnumber all those built since. 9.3% of Portmagee’s homes date between the wars, well above the typical 3.9%. Building from 1981 to 2000 gave Portmagee 20% of its homes, near the usual 24%.
Census 2022, households by the year their home was built (CSO, Small Area Population Statistics, CC BY 4.0); the typical town is the middle Irish town of 2,500 or more.
Portmagee in brief
Old houses are part of Portmagee’s character: 7.4% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. Nothing in Portmagee is on the list; the nearest place with places of national importance is Cahirciveen, 12 km away.
This page describes its history; it gives no grade.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie) · Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · CSO Census 2022 (homes by the year built) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).