# Pollagarraun, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Poll an Ghearráin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,156,938 m² (215.69 ha, 532.99 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,472 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilcommon-belmullet-ra.md - Barony: Erris - Electoral division: Muings, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/35439 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 152653 - Centre: latitude 54.208969, longitude -9.853882 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollagarraun, from 21 m² to 1,859,367 m² (185.94 ha, 459.46 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 888336: 1,859,367 m² (185.94 ha, 459.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888336.md - Parcel 910319: 45,594 m² (4.56 ha, 11.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910319.md - Parcel 980780: 39,870 m² (3.99 ha, 9.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980780.md - Parcel 903956: 39,694 m² (3.97 ha, 9.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903956.md - Parcel 962955: 34,149 m² (3.41 ha, 8.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962955.md - Parcel 985684: 27,127 m² (2.71 ha, 6.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985684.md - Parcel 893595: 22,029 m² (2.2 ha, 5.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/893595.md - Parcel 6040335: 17,574 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6040335.md - Parcel 908753: 11,564 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/908753.md - Parcel 950541: 9,962 m² (1 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/950541.md - Parcel 962001: 8,549 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962001.md - Parcel 909368: 6,079 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909368.md - Parcel 948896: 6,070 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/948896.md - Parcel 992108: 5,773 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/992108.md - Parcel 909094: 5,171 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909094.md - Parcel 921605: 3,745 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921605.md - Parcel 4676173: 3,563 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4676173.md - Parcel 1005079: 3,266 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1005079.md - Parcel 914895: 2,693 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/914895.md - Parcel 875805: 2,305 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/875805.md - Parcel 882468: 1,646 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/882468.md - Parcel 6040399: 633 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6040399.md - Parcel 1004612: 575 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004612.md - Parcel 5204813: 325 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5204813.md - Parcel 878939: 257 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/878939.md - Parcel 6040339: 181 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6040339.md - Parcel 6040408: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6040408.md - Parcel 6040381: 21 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6040381.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 10 Oct 2025, Mayo County Council 2560712: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Demolish existing detached dwelling house, Construct replacement detached dwelling house, together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560712/0 - 23 Nov 2020, Mayo County Council 20902: Conditional. Permission. EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING HOUSE GRANTED UNDER P00/1553 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20902/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Broadhaven Bay SAC, site code 000472, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000472 - Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA, site code 004037, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004037 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Broadhaven Bay, site code 000472 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA017-018: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA017-018----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollagarraun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/pollagarraun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/pollagarraun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/pollagarraun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Pollagarraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowmore-150696.md - Crinnish: https://everytownland.com/mayo/crinnish.md - Muings: https://everytownland.com/mayo/muings.md - Rinnashinnagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/rinnashinnagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/pollagarraun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/pollagarraun