Polldorragha

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Polldorragha, from 39 m² to 150,005 m² (15 ha, 37.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Polldorragha 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.

• 14 Apr 2025Conditional

  of the existing link between the dwelling house and domestic garage .This link is used as part of the existing dwelling house. Full planning permission also sought to retain the existing storage shed at the rear of the dwelling house and all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of works: 84.00 sqm(H), 25.00 sqm(G), 56.00 sqm(retention shed), 19.00 sqm(retention - link)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560426

• 6 Aug 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel storage shed, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed work: (House) 181 sqm & (Garage) 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460998

• 11 May 2023Conditional

  for an extension & alterations to dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360485

• 23 Jun 2022N/a

  for an extensions & alterations to dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 82.79 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22798

• 3 Feb 2020Refused

  for construction of dwelling house including tertiary onsite waste water treatment system with all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 185 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20114

• 3 May 2019Conditional

  of the existing dwelling house, storage shed, boiler house, entrance/exit gates, all on revised site boundaries, (previous planning permission reference number 10705). Full planning permission also sought to replace and install a new septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works: Gross floor space of work to be retained: 156 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19661

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 Polldorragha.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Polldorragha.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Polldorragha.

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

Name

Polldorragha · An Poll Dorcha

Area

1,320,033 m² (132 ha, 326.19 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Levally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Levally electoral division: 437 people in 148 households; 96% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghalode, Cartron, Cuilbeg, Curraghcreen, Drumaskin, Hillswood East, Meelick East, Monacow, Pollaphuca

Placenames

Polldorragha 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.