# Pollacappul, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monivea, barony of Athenry, Co. Galway; in Irish Poll an Chapaill. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 695,748 m² (69.57 ha, 171.92 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,164 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monivea, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/monivea.md - Barony: Athenry - Electoral division: Athenry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19623 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63541 - Centre: latitude 53.304124, longitude -8.717295 (WGS 84) ## 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); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2035007: 343,622 m² (34.36 ha, 84.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035007.md - Parcel 2083232: 174,417 m² (17.44 ha, 43.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083232.md - Parcel 2083230: 89,263 m² (8.93 ha, 22.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083230.md - Parcel 2035006: 76,289 m² (7.63 ha, 18.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035006.md - Parcel 4678126: 2,910 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4678126.md - Parcel 2083231: 2,280 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2083231.md - Parcel 2021505: 2,048 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2021505.md - Parcel 2021506: 1,328 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2021506.md - Parcel 2035008: 1,089 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2035008.md - Parcel 2021509: 1,056 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2021509.md - Parcel 2068646: 953 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2068646.md - Parcel 2068640: 296 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2068640.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 5 Sept 2025, Galway County Council 2561263: Conditional. Permission. to construct an agricultural storage shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561263/0 - 25 Jul 2025, Galway County Council 2561020: N/a. Permission. to construct an agricultural storage shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 102.30 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561020/0 - 15 Apr 2024, Galway County Council 24104: Conditional. Permission. to construct a silage slab. Gross floor space of proposed works: 336 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/24104/0 - 25 May 2021, Galway County Council 21882: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21882/0 - 20 Apr 2021, Galway County Council 21628: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21628/0 - 12 Feb 2020, Galway County Council 20166: Conditional. Permission. to construct stables including all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 246 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20166/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Pollacappul. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollacappul. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollacappul. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_898.zip (ZIP). - 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/galway/pollacappul-63541.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollacappul-63541.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollacappul-63541.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Caherroyn: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherroyn.md - Gloves West: https://everytownland.com/galway/gloves-west.md - Kilcornan: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilcornan-62581.md - Kingsland North: https://everytownland.com/galway/kingsland-north.md - Kingsland South: https://everytownland.com/galway/kingsland-south.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/galway/pollacappul-63541 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/pollacappul-63541