Pollagarraun

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollagarraun, from 21 m² to 1,859,367 m² (185.94 ha, 459.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Pollagarraun 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.

• 10 Oct 2025Conditional

  Demolish existing detached dwelling house, Construct replacement detached dwelling house, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560712

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING HOUSE GRANTED UNDER P00/1553 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20902

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Broadhaven Bay SAC 000472
• Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Broadhaven Bay 000472

Recorded monuments

• MA017-018 Mound
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Pollagarraun, about 1 in 20 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 Pollagarraun.

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 Pollagarraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Pollagarraun · Poll an Ghearráin

Area

2,156,938 m² (215.69 ha, 532.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Muings, the unit of the census

Census 2022

223 people lived in 91 households in the Muings electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmore, Crinnish, Muings, Rinnashinnagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Pollagarraun 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.