Pollrevagh
Pollrevagh is a townland in the civil parish of Ballindoon, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An Poll Riabhach.
- Area
- 64.1 ha
- 158 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 6,253 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollrevagh, from 107 m² to 115,195 m² (11.52 ha, 28.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Pollrevagh 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
15 May 2023Conditional
of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360507
16 Feb 2017Conditional
for demolition of existing single storey four bedroomed bungalow (gross floor space 149 sqm.) and replacement with three bed single storey dwelling (gross floor space 219 sqm. and boathouse 36 sqm.) with new proprietary treatment system and ancillary works.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17183
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slyne Head Peninsula SAC 002074
- Special Area of Conservation: Slyne Head Islands SAC 000328
- Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Islands 000328
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Peninsula 002074
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollrevagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollrevagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Pollrevagh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollrevagh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Pollrevagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Pollrevagh · An Poll Riabhach
- Area
- 640,717 m² (64.07 ha, 158.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballindoon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballynahinch
- Electoral division
- Doonloughan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 97 people lived in 39 households in the Doonloughan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 56% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Doonloughan, Leaghcarrick, Silverhill
- Placenames
- Pollrevagh 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.