Pullagh
Pullagh is a townland in the civil parish of Croom, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Pollach.
- Area
- 88.5 ha
- 219 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 4,621 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pullagh, from 920 m² to 303,665 m² (30.37 ha, 75.04 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 Pullagh 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
30 Jan 2023N/a
the demolition of an existing garage gable wall, the conversion of a garage building into habitable accommodation, the construction of new one storey granny flat extension to the side of the existing house joining the proposed converted garage to the house, the construction of a front entrance porch to the existing house. New pitched roof to one storey extension with own flat roof one storey porch entrance to side; New flat roof to porch entrance of existing house
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2358
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 Pullagh.
Recorded monuments
- LI030-107001 Bawn
Description
On a low rise, in improved pasture, 140m E of a townland boundary with Morenane. Castle (LI030-107002-) lies within. Described in the SMR file as an oval-shaped banked/ditched enclosure. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a large oval-shaped earthwork (52m NW-SE; 49m NE-SW) which is open to NE and is defined by a precipice cliff edge to SW. Area to SE, S and SW annotated as a disused quarry. A portion of the earthwork is visible as a curvilinear cropmark from ENE-E-SSE on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 October 2020
- LI030-107002 Castle - unclassified
Description
Westropp (1906-7, 168) recorded the following details about Pollagh Castle; '1657 "C[astle]. on Polagh" (D.S.A., 42). No other mention, a doubtful site'. Tower house like castle standing on a rise of ground is depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Coshma Barony (Hib. Reg.). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 December 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pullagh.
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 Pullagh, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_885 (ZIP).
- 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 Pullagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Pullagh · Pollach
- Area
- 885,487 m² (88.55 ha, 218.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Ballynabanoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 330 people lived in 114 households in the Ballynabanoge electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygrennan, Carrow, Dohora, Morenane
- Placenames
- Pullagh 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.