title: Portnashangan
text: # Portnashangan
  
  Portnashangan (Irish: Port na Seangán) is a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located about 6.81 kilometres (4 mi) north–north–west of Mullingar.
  
  Portnashangan is one of 8 townlands of the civil parish of Portnashangan in the barony of Corkaree in the Province of Leinster. The townland covers 498 acres (2.02 $km^2).$ About half of the eastern boundary of the townland includes a strip of Scragh Bog approximately 50m wide.
  
  The neighbouring townlands are: Ballynafid, Knightswood and Rathlevanagh to the north, Loughanstown to the east and Ballynagall, County Westmeath|]] and Culleen More to the south.
  
  In the 1911 census of Ireland there were 17 houses and 67 inhabitants in the townland.
  
  