Pollareagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 55 ha
- 136 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 4,067 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollareagh, from 121 m² to 160,001 m² (16 ha, 39.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Pollareagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Apr 2025Conditional
1) to construct a part 2 storey part single storey dwelling 2) to construct a single storey detached domestic garage incorporating home office & domestic store 3) break new entrance onto road 4) to construct proposed new proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation are 5) and all ancillary sites work
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560188
2 Jul 2024Conditional
for retention of Existing dormer windows to front elevation of existing dwelling, (2) Detached domestic garage and all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460300
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Pollareagh.
Recorded monuments
- CV038-053 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 50m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, waterlogged fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. 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 Pollareagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Pollareagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Pollareagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Pollareagh
- Area
- 550,265 m² (55.03 ha, 135.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Electoral division
- Kilbride, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbride electoral division: 998 people in 338 households; 88% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Gallonreagh, Lismacanigan Upper, Mountnugent, Racraveen, Tullyagan
- Placenames
- Pollareagh 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.