Pollbrock
Townland in the civil parish of Stabannan, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Poll Broc
- Area
- 43.7 ha
- 108 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 4,943 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollbrock, from 17 m² to 42,334 m² (4.23 ha, 10.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Pollbrock 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 Jun 2025Conditional
Permission for dwelling house , waste water treatment system and percolation area , natura impact statement , shared access gate from public road with permission granted ref . no. 2460170 and all associated site works *Significant Further Information Received on 14/08/2025*
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560361
30 May 2025N/a
Permission for dwelling house , waste water treatment system and percolation area , shared access gate from public road with permission granted ref no. 2460170 and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560323
15 Apr 2024Refused
Permission to refurbish existing dwelling including reroofing of same, extension to dwelling, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, decommission existing septic tank, revised site boundaries and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460200
1 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission 2360490 for a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460170
30 Mar 2024N/a
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission, 2360490, for a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission consequent · Louth County Council, 2460169
29 Nov 2023Conditional
OUTLINE PERMISSION FOR A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE , WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360490
27 Jul 2023Conditional
Retention of extensions comprising a front porch extension, a conservatory extension, a livingroom extension, a kitchen extension and a garage extension
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360249
30 Mar 2023Refused
Permission for dwelling house, water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works at Pollbrock, Stabannon, Castlebellingham, Co Louth.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23155
1 May 2020Conditional
Permission for the demolition of a single storey extension to a dwelling house and for the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the dwelling house, an attached garage of 25 square meters, the installation of a new waste water treatment system, soil polishing filter and for associated site works **Significant Further Information received 18/09/2020**
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20314
7 Aug 2018Conditional
Permission for an extension and external studio to the rear of house.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18627
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 Protection Area: Stabannan-Braganstown SPA 004091
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Stabannan-Braganstown 000456
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollbrock.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollbrock.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollbrock.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Pollbrock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Pollbrock · Poll Broc
- Area
- 436,862 m² (43.69 ha, 107.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stabannan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Stabannan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Stabannan electoral division: 677 people in 214 households; 94% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bolies, Braganstown, Charleville, Dromgoolestown, Stabannan
- Placenames
- Pollbrock 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.