# Pollnashinnagh, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killinan, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Poll na Sionnach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 471,121 m² (47.11 ha, 116.42 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,884 m² (2.79 ha, 6.89 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killinan, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killinan.md - Barony: Dunkellin - Electoral division: Kilchreest, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 307 people lived in 111 households in the Kilchreest electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19909 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63593 - Centre: latitude 53.171181, longitude -8.706616 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollnashinnagh, from 54 m² to 92,882 m² (9.29 ha, 22.95 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2037305: 92,882 m² (9.29 ha, 22.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037305.md - Parcel 2037304: 64,193 m² (6.42 ha, 15.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037304.md - Parcel 2037307: 59,003 m² (5.9 ha, 14.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037307.md - Parcel 2037306: 39,050 m² (3.9 ha, 9.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037306.md - Parcel 2037303: 34,689 m² (3.47 ha, 8.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037303.md - Parcel 2037310: 31,723 m² (3.17 ha, 7.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037310.md - Parcel 2037308: 28,528 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037308.md - Parcel 2037309: 27,240 m² (2.72 ha, 6.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037309.md - Parcel 2037301: 22,138 m² (2.21 ha, 5.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037301.md - Parcel 2037311: 17,488 m² (1.75 ha, 4.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037311.md - Parcel 4666739: 3,434 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4666739.md - Parcel 2037300: 2,387 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037300.md - Parcel 2037302: 283 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037302.md - Parcel 6075216: 54 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6075216.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Pollnashinnagh 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) 1 application, newest first. - 29 Apr 2021, Galway County Council 21696: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 162.6 sqm, Garage: 30 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21696/0 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 Pollnashinnagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA104-065: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA104-065----. On a gentle N-facing slope in pastureland. This well-preserved rath is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. There is a causewayed entrance gap at S. The townland boundary wall overlies the outer bank from SW to NNE. No visible surface trace of the internal stone-facing noted by McCaffrey (1952, 245, no. 150) on the inner bank survives. This site of a souterrain (GA104-065001-) is evident in the NW quadrant of the interior and in the S sector a subdivision that is subrectangular (L 20.2m; Wth 16.1m) in plan. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018 - GA104-065001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA104-065001-. Within the NW quadrant of a rath (GA104-065----). McCaffrey (1952, 245, no. 150) refers to the presence of a souterrain. It was subsequently robbed out and an L-shaped depression (L>17.5m) running NNE-SSW for 11m and E-W for 6.5m marks its site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018 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 Pollnashinnagh. ## 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 Pollnashinnagh, 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 Pollnashinnagh. - 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/pollnashinnagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollnashinnagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollnashinnagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Pollnashinnagh 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) - Ballinla: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballinla.md - Ballyshea: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyshea.md - Isertkelly North: https://everytownland.com/galway/isertkelly-north.md - Roxborough: https://everytownland.com/galway/roxborough.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/pollnashinnagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/pollnashinnagh