Pollafree

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollafree, from 540 m² to 118,736 m² (11.87 ha, 29.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Pollafree 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.

• 14 Apr 2026Conditional

  for: 1) the reverse handed floor plan and elevations of dwelling house previously granted under planning reference 8112607 (2) variations to floor plan and elevations of domestic garage as granted under planning reference 8112607 (3) amendments to site layout (4) domestic store and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660177

• 21 Oct 2025Conditional

  for the position of a detached domestic garage (previously granted approval under 06/974)

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560634

• 2 Sept 2025N/a

  for retention consists of the position of a detached domestic garage (previously granted approval under 06/974)

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560522

• 11 Sept 2024Conditional

  to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460427

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  rehabilitation and improvement of a 4km stretch of the Pound River, works will include removal of some in-stream vegetation, repair and reinstatement of existing in-stream structures, improvement and alteration of flow dynamics by the construction of deflectors and weirs, reinforcement of the river bank in some locations and the introduction of spawning gravel to improve breeding habitats for trout. Appropriate assessment and NIS has been submitted as part of this application

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23251

• 31 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a four bay shed which will consist of slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath, calving pens and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21322

• 23 Jun 2020Conditional

  to retain part brick finish to front elevation of existing two storey dwelling and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20232

• 4 Jun 2020Conditional

  to retain alterations to floor plans and elevations of previously approved two storey dwelling, also PERMISSION sought to retain and complete alterations to floor plans and elevations of previously approved detached domestic garage and all associated site works. Previous Pl Ref 08/838 relates

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20201

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 Pollafree.

Recorded monuments

• CV032-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 24m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and traces of a fosse. Site is divided into two roughly equal portions by a roadway running NW-SE. Break in bank at SSW may represent original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 Pollafree.

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 Pollafree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Pollafree

Area

977,613 m² (97.76 ha, 241.57 acres)

Civil parish

Denn, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Crosskeys, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crosskeys electoral division: 707 people in 244 households; 88% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corglass, Cornagrow, Killynure, Lishenry, Lismeen, Pottle, Ranrenagh

Placenames

Pollafree 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.