Polldarragh

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Polldarragh, from 2,224 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 384,260 m² (38.43 ha, 94.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 56 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 Polldarragh 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.

• 17 Feb 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a 49.5m² single-story west-side extension to the existing dwelling, comprising a bedroom with ensuite and a sitting room, retention of a garage as constructed, together with all associated site works and connections to existing services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660244

• 3 Sept 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 197.00 sqm (house) & 60.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461156

• 16 Jun 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, dwelling entrance, access driveway, landscaping, proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all other associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 238 sqm (House), 36 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20732

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a new two storey dwelling house, detached garage, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 228.8sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17996

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 Polldarragh.

Recorded monuments

• GA043-116 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in gently undulating grassland. Knockmaa Hill is visible to W. An irregularly shaped rath (E-W c. 34m, N-S c. 33m) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is visible from SW to WNW. A field wall cuts the monument at N and S. A number of breaches in the bank appear modern. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Polldarragh, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Polldarragh.

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

Name

Polldarragh · Poll Darach

Area

889,357 m² (88.94 ha, 219.76 acres)

Civil parish

Belclare, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Claretuam, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,132 people lived in 394 households in the Claretuam electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Claretuam, Knockacarrigeen, Pollaturk or Newgarden, Pollnamal

Placenames

Polldarragh 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.