Pollshask

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollshask, from 52 m² to 82,624 m² (8.26 ha, 20.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Pollshask 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.

• 8 Mar 2024Conditional

  to extend an existing concrete batching plant. The proposed extension of approximately 0.89 hectares will facilitate the washing and sorting of raw materials for use in the concrete batching process and will include; 1. Recycling wash plant to include screening, 2. Installation of a re- cycling wheel wash at a location in variance to grant of permission 09/1688; 3. Construction of 3 lined settlement ponds for use with the wash plant; 4. installation of a bore hole to provide top up water for the wheel wash and wash plant; 5. And all other ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460257

• 28 Mar 2023Conditional

  to construct agricultural slatted shed along with hay and machinery storage shed and associated siteworks

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360298

• 21 Jan 2020Conditional

  to construct loose cattle house extension to existing slatted house along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 125.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2052

• 29 Jan 2018Conditional

  to construct loose cattle house extension to existing slatted house and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works 125 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 1872

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  to demolish existing derelict dwelling house and farmyard buildings and construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, and fuel store, waste water treatment system and percolation area. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 249 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17499

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 Pollshask.

Recorded monuments

• GA006-131 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured area marked on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and named 'Quarry (Disused)' on the OS 25-inch plan, proved on inspection in 1984 to consist of a large roughly oval-shaped depression, the base of which was water filled. Probably of 19th/20th century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 5 September 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Pollshask, 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 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 Pollshask.

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.

No address of the register names Pollshask with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Pollshask · An Poll Seasc

Area

667,386 m² (66.74 ha, 164.91 acres)

Civil parish

Templetogher, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Kilcroan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

596 people lived in 224 households in the Kilcroan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corralough, Corralough South, Knockauns East, Knockauns West, Liskea, Lisrivis, Pollaneyster

Placenames

Pollshask 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.