Pollnaranny

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollnaranny, from 470 m² to 553,341 m² (55.33 ha, 136.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Pollnaranny 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.

• 27 May 2026Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660967

• 25 Aug 2022Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF (A) A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING (B) A SINGLE STOREY FRONT PORCH (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED ATTACHED TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251427

• 2 Jul 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING SHED ATTACHED TO THE SOUTHEASTERN GABLE OF THE DWELLING, (2) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION ON THE SOUTHEASTERN GABLE CONSISTING OF A LIVING ROOM, DINING ROOM, STORE AND BATHROOM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151323

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: Tamur Bog SAC 001992
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tamur Bog 001992

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollnaranny.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic level house/farmhouse, built c. 1820 and altered c. 1890, having single-bay single-storey extension attached to the north-west gable end. Pitched natural slate roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (north-west and south-east) with corbel course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Three gable-fronted dormers at attic level to front (north-east) having rendered coping over. Corrugated-metal roof to single storey extension to the north-west. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course and with raised render block-and-start v-jointed quoins to the corners of the main block. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with exposed sash boxes, stone sills and with decorative smooth rendered surrounds. Central square-headed door opening with plinth blocks to base, timber panelled door, and with decorative smooth rendered surround. Set slightly back from road, below road level, to the south-east of Ballintra. Small yard to front (north-east) and garden to the rear (south-west). Attached single-storey outbuilding to the north-west having pitched corrugated metal roof, painted rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways having battened timber doors.

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

At the centre of the townland of Pollnaranny, 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 Pollnaranny.

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.

No address of the register names Pollnaranny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Pollnaranny

Area

5,796,008 m² (579.6 ha, 1,432.22 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

772 people lived in 281 households in the Ballintra electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadowey, Ballyalla, Ballydermot, Derries, Glaskeeragh, Rath Mountain, Shannagh, Tievebrack

Placenames

Pollnaranny 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.