Pollaghrevagh

115 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollaghrevagh, from 5 m² to 118,125 m² (11.81 ha, 29.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 51 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 Pollaghrevagh 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 Aug 2026N/a

  for the demolition of an existing garage and the construction of a replacement garage

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661357

• 8 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a new bungalow with new vehicular entrance and all associated waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561092

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a 4 bedroom Dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (H) 219 sqm & (G) 25.7 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560757

• 20 Jan 2025Conditional

  for the proposed development within County Galway will comprise: •the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor; •Replace tower in situ at 1no. location;•Retain towers at 3no. locations including foundation strengthening with bar member replacement at 2 locations;•Replace polesets at 15no. locations;•the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at structures;•all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and •other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e. guard poles) and temporary watercourse crossings. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system (ACSS) will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g. busy national roads, wide rivers, etc. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560052

• 1 Mar 2024Conditional

  to erect dwelling house with attached carport, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 256.50sqm (dwelling house) and 30.00sqm (carport)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460221

• 1 Oct 2020Refused

  for (1) construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment system, along with all associated works and (2) upgrading and realignment of site access road. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 202 sqm, Garage 45 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201422

• 20 Feb 2020Refused

  for a) demolition of existing dwelling house, b) construction of new two storey dwelling house and domestic garage c) decommission existing septic tank and install new septic tank and sewage treatment system d) revise and upgrade existing site entrance e) all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 286.365 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 92.03 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20217

• 18 Jul 2019Refused

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 224.5 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191091

• 11 Jun 2019N/a

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 224.5 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19883

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Pollaghrevagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA082-073 Country house
  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.

• GA082-074 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). Field boundaries clipped it SE and SW. McCaffrey (1952, 110) recorded that it was 'Completely effaced' during his survey of the area. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_526 (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.

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

Name

Pollaghrevagh · An Pollach Riabhach

Area

1,196,899 m² (119.69 ha, 295.76 acres)

Civil parish

Claregalway, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Carrowbrowne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrowbrowne electoral division: 1,040 people in 325 households; 86% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahergowan or Summerfield, Cloon, Cregboy, Montiagh South, Rockwood

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Pollaghrevagh 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.