Pollagoona Mountain
Pollagoona Mountain is a townland in the civil parish of Moynoe, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Sliabh Pholl an Ghamhna.
- Area
- 1,143.9 ha
- 2,827 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 1,782,277 m² (178.23 ha, 440.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollagoona Mountain, from 896,332 m² (89.63 ha, 221.49 acres) to 8,502,502 m² (850.25 ha, 2,101.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Pollagoona Mountain 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
14 Oct 2019Conditional
to install a Forest Road Bellmouth Entrance to facilitate timber harvesting, haulage operations and associated site works to existing forestry lands
Permission · Clare County Council, 19786
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Loughatorick South Bog SAC 000308
- Special Area of Conservation: Pollagoona Bog SAC 002126
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollagoona Mountain.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollagoona Mountain.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Pollagoona Mountain, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollagoona Mountain.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Pollagoona Mountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Pollagoona Mountain · Sliabh Pholl an Ghamhna
- Area
- 11,439,495 m² (1,143.95 ha, 2,826.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moynoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Electoral division
- Cappaghabaun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 210 people lived in 72 households in the Cappaghabaun electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corleacommons North, Corleacommons South, Corrakyle, Derrycnaw, Loughatorick North (Co. Galway), Loughatorick South (Co. Galway), Slieveanore, Turkenagh Mountain
- Placenames
- Pollagoona Mountain 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.