# Polldarragh, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Belclare, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Poll Darach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 889,357 m² (88.94 ha, 219.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,877 m² (1.29 ha, 3.18 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Belclare, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/belclare.md - Barony: Clare - Electoral division: Claretuam, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21478 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63573 - Centre: latitude 53.497684, longitude -8.91602 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 56 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1962697: 384,260 m² (38.43 ha, 94.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962697.md - Parcel 1987962: 72,840 m² (7.28 ha, 18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987962.md - Parcel 1962698: 67,864 m² (6.79 ha, 16.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962698.md - Parcel 1962703: 56,662 m² (5.67 ha, 14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962703.md - Parcel 1962696: 47,680 m² (4.77 ha, 11.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962696.md - Parcel 1987965: 35,760 m² (3.58 ha, 8.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987965.md - Parcel 1987958: 34,661 m² (3.47 ha, 8.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987958.md - Parcel 1987955: 26,923 m² (2.69 ha, 6.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987955.md - Parcel 1962700: 25,104 m² (2.51 ha, 6.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962700.md - Parcel 1962701: 24,221 m² (2.42 ha, 5.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962701.md - Parcel 1987957: 17,757 m² (1.78 ha, 4.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987957.md - Parcel 1987954: 13,988 m² (1.4 ha, 3.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987954.md - Parcel 1987959: 13,484 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987959.md - Parcel 1987956: 12,270 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987956.md - Parcel 1962699: 11,158 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962699.md - Parcel 1962702: 10,585 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962702.md - Parcel 5665746: 4,878 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5665746.md - Parcel 5882252: 4,213 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5882252.md - Parcel 3792047: 4,183 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3792047.md - Parcel 4457927: 3,418 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457927.md - Parcel 4632330: 3,217 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632330.md - Parcel 4632889: 3,215 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632889.md - Parcel 2113053: 2,991 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2113053.md - Parcel 1987964: 2,451 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987964.md - Parcel 1987960: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987960.md - Parcel 1987963: 2,224 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987963.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 17 Feb 2026, Galway County Council 2660244: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660244/0 - 3 Sept 2024, Galway County Council 2461156: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461156/0 - 16 Jun 2020, Galway County Council 20732: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20732/0 - 5 Jul 2017, Galway County Council 17996: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17996/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Polldarragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA043-116: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA043-116----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Polldarragh. ## 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 Polldarragh, 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 Polldarragh. - 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/polldarragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/polldarragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/polldarragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Polldarragh 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) - Claretuam: https://everytownland.com/galway/claretuam.md - Knockacarrigeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockacarrigeen.md - Pollaturk or Newgarden: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollaturk-or-newgarden.md - Pollnamal: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollnamal.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/polldarragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/polldarragh