Pollnabanny
Townland in the civil parish of Killora, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Poll na Báine
- Area
- 112.5 ha
- 278 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 21,424 m² (2.14 ha, 5.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollnabanny, from 391 m² to 180,746 m² (18.07 ha, 44.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Pollnabanny 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
20 Aug 2026N/a
for; (1) change of use of existing garage area to habitable to be used in conjunction with existing dwelling. (2) Permission to construct a single storey extension to side of existing dwellinghouse. (3) Minor alterations to front elevation of existing dwelling. (4) Construct new domestic garage/garden store and (5) all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661415
8 Jul 2026Refused
for the construction of dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661150
25 Apr 2024Conditional
to construct an extension to the existing cottage. This includes an upgrade proposal to the existing tank & percolation and all associated services and landscaping. Permission for a detached garage and the demolition of sheds and existing house rear annex. Gross floor space of proposed works: 52 sqm (garage) & 167 sqm (extension). Gross floor space of any demolition: 73 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460454
23 Mar 2023Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, treatment plant & associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23116
16 May 2022N/a
for the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, treatment plant and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200 sqm (house)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22634
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Pollnabanny.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollnabanny.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollnabanny.
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 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_870 (ZIP).
- 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 Pollnabanny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Pollnabanny · Poll na Báine
- Area
- 1,125,159 m² (112.52 ha, 278.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killora, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Craughwell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Craughwell electoral division: 2,092 people in 690 households; 84% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballywinna, Moyode, Rockfield, Slieveroe, Templemartin
- Placenames
- Pollnabanny 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.