Pollnagarragh West

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollnagarragh West, from 2,512 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 370,472 m² (37.05 ha, 91.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Pollnagarragh West 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.

• 16 Mar 2024Conditional

  and completion of a domestic outbuilding to rear of existing house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 34.83 sqm (office) & 21.56 sqm (fuel store)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460291

• 13 Dec 2023N/a

  for a domestic garage located to rear of the existing house and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 58 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2361493

• 13 Oct 2022Conditional

  of a dwellinghouse & domestic garage on a site with revised site boundaries to those previously granted permission under pl. ref. 17/1044 and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained 262.00sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261025

• 3 May 2022Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage, Waste Water Treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 294.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260422

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment system along with all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 210 sqm, Garage: 45 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212125

• 26 Aug 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of [1] Proposed New Agricultural Field Entrance to existing Agricultural Land and [2] All associated site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201186

• 14 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works House 202sqm, Garage 64sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171044

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 Pollnagarragh West.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-228 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 245, no. 58) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 30m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse with an entrance gap (Wth c. 2m) at E. Only the inner bank survives from E through S to W. There is a souterrain (GA104-228001-) in the W half of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018

• GA104-228001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the W half of the interior of a rath (GA104-228----). A marginal note in McCaffrey (1952, 245, no. 58) describes the souterrain as 'a curving passage c. 33' [c. 10m]' that 'leads to a chamber c. 15' x 8' [c. 5m by 2.4m]'. All that survives is a small stone-filled depression. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Pollnagarragh West.

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

Name

Pollnagarragh West · Poll na gCarrach Thiar

Area

599,729 m² (59.97 ha, 148.2 acres)

Civil parish

Killeely, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Rahasane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rahasane electoral division: 363 people in 121 households; 93% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caheraloggy West, Carrowmaneen, Deerpark, Lavallyconor, Pollnagarragh East, Rahasane, Rathmoyle

Placenames

Pollnagarragh West 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.