# Pollet, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Pollaid. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 667,435 m² (66.74 ha, 164.93 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,150 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Fanad North, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 540 people lived in 209 households in the Fanad North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15800 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52213 - Centre: latitude 55.256001, longitude -7.628298 (WGS 84) ## 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); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1357352: 57,917 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357352.md - Parcel 1395810: 56,036 m² (5.6 ha, 13.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395810.md - Parcel 3661041: 47,789 m² (4.78 ha, 11.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661041.md - Parcel 1310204: 43,888 m² (4.39 ha, 10.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310204.md - Parcel 1394282: 41,537 m² (4.15 ha, 10.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394282.md - Parcel 1361491: 40,360 m² (4.04 ha, 9.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361491.md - Parcel 1335290: 29,203 m² (2.92 ha, 7.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335290.md - Parcel 1315524: 26,548 m² (2.65 ha, 6.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315524.md - Parcel 1393430: 24,433 m² (2.44 ha, 6.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393430.md - Parcel 1321855: 23,017 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321855.md - Parcel 1403021: 21,083 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403021.md - Parcel 1417378: 17,541 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417378.md - Parcel 1399305: 15,233 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399305.md - Parcel 1415217: 7,668 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415217.md - Parcel 3055635: 7,262 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3055635.md - Parcel 1399654: 6,812 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399654.md - Parcel 4652697: 6,150 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4652697.md - Parcel 1392308: 6,119 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392308.md - Parcel 3661039: 6,074 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661039.md - Parcel 1328146: 5,574 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328146.md - Parcel 4652721: 5,343 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4652721.md - Parcel 1409178: 4,500 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409178.md - Parcel 3661040: 2,391 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661040.md - Parcel 4929142: 2,296 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4929142.md - Parcel 4279319: 2,295 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4279319.md - Parcel 1327241: 2,112 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327241.md - Parcel 1336169: 1,978 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336169.md - Parcel 3763800: 1,877 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3763800.md - Parcel 4652724: 1,619 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4652724.md - Parcel 4673734: 1,269 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4673734.md - Parcel 4673728: 919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4673728.md - Parcel 3661042: 636 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661042.md - Parcel 1338212: 339 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338212.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 26 Nov 2025, Donegal County Council 2550167: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2550167/0 - 18 Nov 2024, Donegal County Council 2450247: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450247/0 - 4 Dec 2023, Donegal County Council 2351860: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351860/0 - 8 Apr 2022, Donegal County Council 2250604: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250604/0 - 5 May 2021, Donegal County Council 2150830: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150830/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC, site code 001975, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001975 - Special Protection Area: Fanad Head SPA, site code 004148, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004148 - Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA, site code 004194, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004194 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head, site code 001975 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollet. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollet. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Pollet, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Pollet. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/pollet.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/pollet.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/pollet.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Arryheernabin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/arryheernabin.md - Balloor: https://everytownland.com/donegal/balloor.md - Ballynalost: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballynalost.md - Doagh Beg: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doagh-beg.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/pollet - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/pollet