Pollacrossaun

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollacrossaun, from 229 m² to 144,242 m² (14.42 ha, 35.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Pollacrossaun 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.

• 17 Jun 2026N/a

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660998

• 2 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 175 sqm (house) & 27 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461289

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwellinghouse & domestic garage, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361277

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwellinghouse & domestic garage, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361281

• 6 Oct 2023Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwellinghouse & domestic garage, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361200

• 22 Feb 2021Conditional

  to replace existing 6,802 sqm grass-based sports field with a synthetic grass surface. To construct 4 no. 18m high floodlights on the pitch perimeter to provide lighting to the sports field. To erect perimeter fencing around the sports field and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is submitted with this application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21217

• 3 Jun 2020N/a

  to resurface 2 no. existing carparks and to construct associated surface water drainage, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20678

• 8 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a children's playground, incorporating perimeter fencing and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19516

• 11 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a 1000sqm all-weather synthetic grass pitch, incorporating perimeter fencing, netting and 4Nr x 12m high floodlighting.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181430

• 11 May 2018Conditional

  to construct a proposed new walkway incorporating outdoor Gym Equipment and low level lighting.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18610

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollacrossaun.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollacrossaun.

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

About 1 in 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollacrossaun.

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.

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

Name

Pollacrossaun · Poll an Chrosáin

Area

1,300,288 m² (130.03 ha, 321.31 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Derryglassaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryglassaun electoral division: 976 people in 332 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Ballynamona, Colmanstown, Cuddoo West, Esker, Garbally, Gorteendrishagh

Placenames

Pollacrossaun 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.