Pollaphuca

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollaphuca, from 365 m² to 107,716 m² (10.77 ha, 26.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Pollaphuca 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.

• 27 May 2025Conditional

  for: 1.Construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house. 2. Relocation of the existing garden shed on the site. 3. installation of a new treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 112.50 sqm(extension), 17.11 sqm(relocation of shed)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560662

• 3 Mar 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works (Gross floor space of proposed works: 187 sqm house; 47 sqm garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17291

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 Pollaphuca.

Recorded monuments

• GA030-109 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying grassland overlooking bogland to S. Circular ringfort (D 33m), in fair condition, defined by a stone-faced bank from S through W to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Possible entrance at SW. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and ESE. Centrally placed within the interior is a circular earthen mound (D 12m) into which a funnel-shaped, partially subterranean, drystone structure (L 10.5m, Wth 3.2m) has been built; a curving drystone wall (L 1.1m) survives at E end of it: possibly a house or a limekiln. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA030-109001 Structure
  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

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

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 moderately low, 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 Pollaphuca.

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

Name

Pollaphuca · Poll an Phúca

Area

588,453 m² (58.85 ha, 145.41 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Carrowrevagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrowrevagh electoral division: 485 people in 162 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brockagh, Cartron, Cuilbeg, Polldorragha, Tonrevagh

Placenames

Pollaphuca 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.