Pollet
Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Pollaid
- Area
- 66.7 ha
- 165 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 6,150 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollet, from 339 m² to 57,917 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Pollet 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
26 Nov 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550167
18 Nov 2024Conditional
(1) RENOVATION, CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND INCREASE IN HEIGHT OF DERELICT COTTAGE, (2) DEMOLITION OF PORTIONS OF THE COTTAGE AND (3) UPGRADING EXISTING ONSITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450247
4 Dec 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351860
8 Apr 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250604
5 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150830
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: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC 001975
- Special Protection Area: Fanad Head SPA 004148
- Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head 001975
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollet.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollet.
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 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollet.
- 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 Pollet with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Pollet · Pollaid
- Area
- 667,435 m² (66.74 ha, 164.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondavaddog, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Fanad North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Fanad North electoral division: 540 people in 209 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arryheernabin, Balloor, Ballynalost, Doagh Beg
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Pollet 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.