Pollboy
Pollboy is a townland in the civil parish of Cloonlogher, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is An Poll Buí.
- Area
- 88.7 ha
- 219 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 5,691 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollboy, from 521 m² to 267,829 m² (26.78 ha, 66.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Pollboy 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
11 Jul 2024Conditional
1. retain two number domestic sheds and all ancillary works.
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2460138
8 Mar 2023N/a
construct two number warehouse units which contain storage area, office, kitchenette space. 2. To construct a new site entrance and car parking area. 3. To erect signage. 4. To construct a waste water treatment system to current EPA Code Of Practice and all ancillary works. Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the planning application.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2333
21 Dec 2018Conditional
retention and completion of revised elevations to house under construction , for revised site boundaries, and wayleave to percolation area, previously approved under Planning Ref. 10/348 and 15/181
Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18285
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 Pollboy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollboy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollboy.
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 Pollboy, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollboy.
- 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 Pollboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Pollboy · An Poll Buí
- Area
- 887,070 m² (88.71 ha, 219.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloonlogher, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Lurganboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 444 people lived in 169 households in the Lurganboy electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornastauk, Gortnaskeagh, Shanvaus, Srabrick, Tawnymoyle
- Placenames
- Pollboy 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.