Pollacappul
Townland in the civil parish of Monivea, barony of Athenry, Co. Galway; in Irish Poll an Chapaill
- Area
- 69.6 ha
- 172 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 2,164 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollacappul, from 296 m² to 343,622 m² (34.36 ha, 84.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Pollacappul 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
5 Sept 2025Conditional
to construct an agricultural storage shed
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561263
25 Jul 2025N/a
to construct an agricultural storage shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 102.30 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561020
15 Apr 2024Conditional
to construct a silage slab. Gross floor space of proposed works: 336 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 24104
25 May 2021Refused
for the construction of a new two story family dwelling on family land's, with detached garage, all served by new sewage treatment system and raised polishing filter percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 289 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21882
20 Apr 2021N/a
for the following: - The construction of a new two story family dwelling on family land's, with detached garage, all served by new sewage treatment system and raised polishing filter percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 289 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21628
12 Feb 2020Conditional
to construct stables including all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 246 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 20166
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Pollacappul.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollacappul.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollacappul.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_898 (ZIP).
- 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 Pollacappul with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Pollacappul · Poll an Chapaill
- Area
- 695,748 m² (69.57 ha, 171.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monivea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athenry
- Electoral division
- Athenry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athenry electoral division: 5,765 people in 2,069 households; 67% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherroyn, Gloves West, Kilcornan, Kingsland North, Kingsland South
- Placenames
- Pollacappul 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.