# Pollafree, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Denn, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 977,613 m² (97.76 ha, 241.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,552 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Denn, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/denn.md - Barony: Loughtee Upper - Electoral division: Crosskeys, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 707 people lived in 244 households in the Crosskeys electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4809 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21699 - Centre: latitude 53.901791, longitude -7.225609 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollafree, from 540 m² to 118,736 m² (11.87 ha, 29.34 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 466655: 118,736 m² (11.87 ha, 29.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466655.md - Parcel 466551: 105,613 m² (10.56 ha, 26.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466551.md - Parcel 450870: 89,915 m² (8.99 ha, 22.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450870.md - Parcel 466549: 79,919 m² (7.99 ha, 19.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466549.md - Parcel 466553: 71,862 m² (7.19 ha, 17.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466553.md - Parcel 464916: 71,498 m² (7.15 ha, 17.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/464916.md - Parcel 466571: 66,125 m² (6.61 ha, 16.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466571.md - Parcel 443787: 54,306 m² (5.43 ha, 13.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/443787.md - Parcel 450869: 50,720 m² (5.07 ha, 12.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450869.md - Parcel 479112: 50,014 m² (5 ha, 12.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/479112.md - Parcel 442408: 44,044 m² (4.4 ha, 10.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/442408.md - Parcel 466547: 39,668 m² (3.97 ha, 9.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466547.md - Parcel 5247534: 36,336 m² (3.63 ha, 8.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5247534.md - Parcel 5241738: 28,930 m² (2.89 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5241738.md - Parcel 450866: 8,062 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450866.md - Parcel 466552: 7,611 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466552.md - Parcel 490086: 7,492 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/490086.md - Parcel 476696: 6,803 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476696.md - Parcel 5178196: 3,848 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5178196.md - Parcel 488090: 3,598 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488090.md - Parcel 449761: 3,374 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/449761.md - Parcel 3038417: 3,265 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3038417.md - Parcel 491918: 3,202 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/491918.md - Parcel 458857: 3,195 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/458857.md - Parcel 2436937: 2,909 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2436937.md - Parcel 492454: 2,752 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/492454.md - Parcel 457879: 2,606 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/457879.md - Parcel 445255: 2,354 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/445255.md - Parcel 2436941: 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2436941.md - Parcel 466656: 1,211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/466656.md - Parcel 466548: 1,174 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/466548.md - Parcel 461996: 540 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/461996.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 14 Apr 2026, Cavan County Council 2660177: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660177/0 - 21 Oct 2025, Cavan County Council 2560634: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for the position of a detached domestic garage (previously granted approval under 06/974). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560634/0 - 2 Sept 2025, Cavan County Council 2560522: N/a. Retention. for retention consists of the position of a detached domestic garage (previously granted approval under 06/974). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560522/0 - 11 Sept 2024, Cavan County Council 2460427: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460427/0 - 28 Jun 2023, Cavan County Council 23251: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/23251/0 - 31 May 2021, Cavan County Council 21322: Conditional. Permission. to construct a four bay shed which will consist of slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath, calving pens and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21322/0 - 23 Jun 2020, Cavan County Council 20232: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to retain part brick finish to front elevation of existing two storey dwelling and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20232/0 - 4 Jun 2020, Cavan County Council 20201: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20201/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Pollafree. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV032-043: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV032-043----. 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 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 Pollafree. ## 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 Pollafree, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/cavan/pollafree.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/pollafree.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/pollafree.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Pollafree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Corglass: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corglass-20428.md - Cornagrow: https://everytownland.com/cavan/cornagrow-20495.md - Killynure: https://everytownland.com/cavan/killynure-21318.md - Lishenry: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lishenry.md - Lismeen: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lismeen-21515.md - Pottle: https://everytownland.com/cavan/pottle-21724.md - Ranrenagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ranrenagh.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. --- 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/cavan/pollafree - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/pollafree