Pollaturick
Townland in the civil parish of Addergoole, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Poll an tSiúraic
- Area
- 106.4 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 9,323 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollaturick, from 281 m² to 93,975 m² (9.4 ha, 23.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Pollaturick 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Sept 2026N/a
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent system, percolation area and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661496
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollaturick.
Architectural heritage
- Milltown Railway Station, railway station, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Detached railway station, built c.1900, now in use as private house. Consists of two-bay single-storey stationmaster's house at right angles to platform with attic storey, with attached four-bay single-storey station building parallel to platform and recessed from house, with verandah to platform. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, and projecting bargeboards, carved curvilinear to north gable of station proper. Rendered and painted with brick dressings to quoins and openings. Square-headed window openings throughout, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to station and replacement windows to house. Verandah to platform comprising oversailing of station roof flush with stationmaster's house and supported on cast-iron columns. Platform paved with limestone slabs, with larger slabs for kerbing. Roofless goods shed to north with rendered rubble limestone walls with brick dressings, and having oculus to gable. Signal box to south with pyramidal slate roof, walls of rusticated concrete blocks to ground floor, smooth rendered to first floor, and having large wrap-around windows.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollaturick.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Pollaturick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Pollaturick · Poll an tSiúraic
- Area
- 1,063,829 m² (106.38 ha, 262.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Addergoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Milltown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Milltown electoral division: 704 people in 266 households; 86% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belmont, Curraghaderry, Drum, Gortnaloura, Killerneen, Ummeracly East, Ummeracly West
- Placenames
- Pollaturick 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.