# Pollbaun, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killererin, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish An Poll Bán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 387,211 m² (38.72 ha, 95.68 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,512 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killererin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killererin.md - Barony: Clare - Electoral division: Killererin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 770 people lived in 271 households in the Killererin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21785 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63570 - Centre: latitude 53.482771, longitude -8.794343 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollbaun, from 404 m² to 98,624 m² (9.86 ha, 24.37 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4732675: 98,624 m² (9.86 ha, 24.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4732675.md - Parcel 1930154: 58,068 m² (5.81 ha, 14.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930154.md - Parcel 1930058: 57,045 m² (5.7 ha, 14.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930058.md - Parcel 1968570: 50,921 m² (5.09 ha, 12.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968570.md - Parcel 1930157: 35,306 m² (3.53 ha, 8.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930157.md - Parcel 1930155: 25,823 m² (2.58 ha, 6.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930155.md - Parcel 1930156: 17,512 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930156.md - Parcel 1968573: 13,143 m² (1.31 ha, 3.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968573.md - Parcel 1968572: 12,512 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968572.md - Parcel 5977270: 6,860 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5977270.md - Parcel 1968571: 3,019 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968571.md - Parcel 1930057: 2,247 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930057.md - Parcel 6078504: 2,170 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6078504.md - Parcel 1968574: 1,408 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1968574.md - Parcel 5442814: 1,322 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5442814.md - Parcel 1930059: 759 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930059.md - Parcel 4732674: 404 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4732674.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Pollbaun in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 4 Mar 2024, Galway County Council 2460230: N/a. Permission. for the development consisting of a new 38kV overhead line (OHL) from existing Glenamaddy 38kV station to existing cable ducts approximately 720 metres East of the existing Cloon 110kV station at Cloonascragh. The proposed development involves the construction of 179no. poles (up to 18m in height), 2no. end masts (up to 16.2m in height) and stringing with overhead lines, over a distance of approximately 26.8km, and all associated works including any temporary works required. The project was previously granted under pl. ref. no. 10779 and an extension of this permission was granted under pl. ref. no. 15861. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) accompanies the application. OSI 2,500 series; 2882, 2883, 2815, 2816, 2748, 2679, 2609, 2610, 2680, 2543, 2544, 2611. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460230/0 - 1 Jun 2021, Galway County Council 21953: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store, treatment system / septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 174 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21953/0 - 10 Apr 2019, Galway County Council 19531: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to demolish old dwellinghouse and to construct a new dwellinghouse, shed and proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 185.38 sqm, Shed - 167.26 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19531/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC, site code 000297, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000297 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollbaun. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollbaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Pollbaun, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollbaun. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollbaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollbaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollbaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Pollbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynakilla: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynakilla-60433.md - Barbersfort: https://everytownland.com/galway/barbersfort.md - Cahergal: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahergal-60750.md - Cloonlusk: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonlusk.md - Coolrevagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/coolrevagh.md - Togher Beg: https://everytownland.com/galway/togher-beg.md - Togher More: https://everytownland.com/galway/togher-more.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollbaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/pollbaun