Pollintemple

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollintemple, from 2,540 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) to 250,500 m² (25.05 ha, 61.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Pollintemple 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.

• 1 Jul 2026N/a

  for permission and retention permission for development to the existing single storey ancillary family accommodation / granny flat, permitted under Cavan County Council Reg. Ref. 08/1539 and associated with the principal dwelling permitted under Reg. Ref. 99/706. The development comprises RETENTION of the enclosure/infill and adaptation of the previously permitted front carport and rear covered/canopied area, associated internal and elevational alterations. Full PERMISSION for further alterations and extension works, including additional single storey side extension with matching roof, revised internal layout, rooflights, flat-roof canopy element over new front door, repositioned external stair into attic storage, maintaining connection to existing biocycle, services and all associated site works. The ancillary family accommodation shall remain associated with the principal dwelling and shall not be sold, let, leased, subdivided or occupied as an independent dwelling. Permission is also sought to allow continued occupation of the ancillary family accommodation by an immediate family member of the occupants of the principal dwelling.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660368

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ramor 000008

Recorded monuments

• CV043-031 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CV043-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 21m) enclosed by a low earthen bank. An earlier report (OPW 1969) suggested that the original entrance was probably at ESE. 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

• CV043-033 Kiln - lime
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Kiln, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limekiln, built c.1800, set against rising ground. Now in ruins. Rubble stone walls with segmental-arched opening formed of rough-hewn voussoirs.

• Pollintemple House, farm house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with recent two-storey extension to rear. Hipped replacement slate roof with pair of ashlar chimneystacks with projecting stone bands flanking central bay, uPVC eaves fascia and rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with rendered quoins and plinth. Block-and-start limestone surrounds to windows with keystones and stone sills, having replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed doorcase comprising plain limestone ashlar surround with moulded cornice profile, with recent timber door and glazed fanlight. Farmyard to west enclosed by random rubble stone walls having two-storey outbuilding with elliptical-headed carriage openings. Garden to south-east enclosed by random rubble wall with square-profile random rubble piers and forged iron gate.

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 10 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollintemple.

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

Name

Pollintemple · Poll an Teampaill

Area

433,776 m² (43.38 ha, 107.19 acres)

Civil parish

Lurgan, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Virginia, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Virginia electoral division: 5,210 people in 1,733 households; 68% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burrenrea, Carrakeelty Beg, Carrakeelty More

Placenames

Pollintemple 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.