Pollagh

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollagh, from 79 m² to 99,071 m² (9.91 ha, 24.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Pollagh 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.

• 6 Jun 2024Conditional

  for: (1) Existing dwelling house and treatment system / percolation area on revised site boundaries to that approved under Pl.Ref. No.06/524 and 05/1637 and (2) All associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 231.10 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460683

• 14 Aug 2023Conditional

  of balconies to rear & extension to the side of dwellinghouse

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360959

• 26 Oct 2022Conditional

  (1) Retention of minor alterations to existing dwelling, including addition of front porch. Previous planning ref. nos. 04/462 & 05/4709 (2) Retention of existing domestic garage (3) Permission for new extension to the side of existing domestic garage (4) Permission to re-locate vehicular access to public road along front boundary, along with all associated works.Gross floor space of work to be retained 257.50sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261077

• 12 Sept 2019Conditional

  and Alterations to House to include:- Extension to rear at First Floor Level. Fuel Store & Potters Store. Potters Studio. Permission for Artists Studio. Gross floor space of proposed works: 22 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 96 sqm

  Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 191416

• 6 Jun 2019N/a

  of alterations to house to include:- 1. Extension to rear at first floor level and balcony; 2. Fuel store and potters store; 3. Potters studio; 4. Permission for artist studio to side of house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 22 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 96 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19859

• 8 Aug 2018Conditional

  for 1) construction of a dwellinghouse and domestic garage/garden store, 2) new sewage treatment system and 3) all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 213.7 sqm. (garage) 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181121

• 8 Jun 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/garden store and sewage treatment system with all associated site works and services (gross floor space house 178sqm;garage 60sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17826

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 Fingall Complex SAC 000606
• Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fingall Complex 000606
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA103-162 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In undulating grassland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed irregularly shaped area (10m NW-SE; 8.8m NE-SW) within which are several haphazardly placed set stones. On inspection the monument was densely overgrown and was being used as a dump for refuse. (McCaffrey 1952, 201, no. 109) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• GA103-163 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough grazing land. Poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 20.5m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall that is overlain by a later field boundary. The external wall-face is not visible due to dense overgrowth, which in most part is impenetrable. A possible souterrain (GA103-163001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 December 2017

• GA103-163001 Souterrain
  Description

  According to McCaffrey (1952, 202, no. 116) there is 'a tradition in the neighbourhood of a souterrain in the centre' of the cashel (GA103-163----). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 December 2017

• GA103-211 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with dormer attic, built c.1800, having recent extension to rear (north) elevation. Pitched thatched roof having painted rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls having painted rendered quoins and plinth course. Square-headed window openings having rendered block-and-start surrounds and painted stone sills with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed window opening to gable with fixed window with margined lights. Square-headed door opening having painted rendered block-and-start surround and replacement uPVC door. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate with painted rendered piers and boundary walls.

• Pollagh Quay, quay/wharf, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-sided triangular-plan quay having rubble stone wall to north and rendered rubble stone wall to south, built c.1800. Circular-plan mooring posts to deck.

• Rose Cottage, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof having decorative raised ridge, and painted rendered chimneystack. Whitewashed stone walls. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having replacement half-glazed timber half-door. Outbuilding to north of site having pitched corrugated-iron roof and whitewashed stone walls with square-headed door opening and replacement half-glazed timber door. Garden to front with limestone staddle stones form cornstands.

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 Pollagh, about 1 in 5 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 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 Pollagh.

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 Pollagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Pollagh · An Pollach

Area

1,473,817 m² (147.38 ha, 364.19 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenavarra, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Drumacoo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,561 people lived in 514 households in the Drumacoo electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghballymore, Gortaroe, Mulroog East, Mulroog West, Tarrea, Tooreen East, Tooreen West

Placenames

Pollagh 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.