Pollans

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollans, from 2,014 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 339,194 m² (33.92 ha, 83.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Pollans 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.

• 25 Mar 2024Conditional

  CHANGE IN HOUSE TYPE AND GARAGE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REF. 22/50777, CONNECTION TO A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450091

• 4 May 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE & ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250777

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED & INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250459

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751991

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Leannan Valley Woods 001155

Recorded monuments

• DG052-012 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Tobernaglory is a well, now dried up, beside a roadway. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload/revision: 02 November 2011

• DG052-013 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 27m N-S, c. 20m E-W. An oval area formerly enclosed by a now much damaged stone wall which survives up to 1m on the NW but at other points is little more than a line of boulders. The wall seems to have occasionally exploited sections of suitable rock outcrop. The interior is flat with a slight slope from NW to SE. It is situated at the NW foot of Gregory Hill in poor rocky land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG052-014 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  An overgrown well sited 40m N of a former 'altar' (DG052-033----) used as a penitential station. It is situated at the foot of the N slope of Crockatee in marshy land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 02 November 2011

• DG052-033 Penal Mass station
  Description

  Depicted on all editions of the OS 6-inch map as 'Altar' with 'Altar Well' located 45m to the north.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Pollans.

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 Pollans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Pollans

Area

672,475 m² (67.25 ha, 166.17 acres)

Civil parish

Conwal, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Templedouglas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templedouglas electoral division: 1,089 people in 352 households; 89% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybolauder, Sockar, Stackarnagh

Placenames

Pollans 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.