Pollavaddy
Townland in the civil parish of Balla, barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Poll an Mhadaidh
- Area
- 157 ha
- 388 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 6,033 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollavaddy, from 149 m² to 133,038 m² (13.3 ha, 32.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Pollavaddy 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
22 Jun 2026Conditional
Planning Permission retain and complete garage location and septic tank and percolation area location all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660489
19 Dec 2025Conditional
construction of a new roofed manure pit, new silo walls to existing silage slab, the installation of a water harvesting tank along with ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25517
2 Aug 2025Conditional
Planning permission for (i) demolition of existing single-storey rear extension, (ii) demolition of existing two-storey shed, (iii) construction of proposed courtyard extensions to include two-storey living accommodation and single-storey studio, (iv) alterations to front elevation, (v) upgrade of treatment system, plus all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560517
31 May 2024Conditional
renovate existing dwelling with some demolitions, construct a two storey extension with a new PETU, percolation area and associated site works with a domestic shed
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24209
22 Dec 2022Conditional
construction of an extension to an existing dwelling, renovate dwelling and upgrade existing vehicular entrance and the decommissioning and removal of existing wastewater treatment sytem and installation of a new onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 221158
3 Nov 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22965
20 Jun 2022Conditional
Demolition of existing house and construction of a new dwelling with associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22482
22 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO INCLUDE A SEPTIC TANK/ PETU AND A NEW ACCESS ON FAMILY LANDS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 201035
25 Jan 2019Conditional
Construction of a slatted house, concrete yards and all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1939
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 Area of Conservation: Balla Turlough SAC 000463
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Balla Turlough 000463
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollavaddy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollavaddy.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollavaddy.
- 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 Pollavaddy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Pollavaddy · Poll an Mhadaidh
- Area
- 1,569,799 m² (156.98 ha, 387.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balla, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Balla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balla electoral division: 1,661 people in 631 households; 81% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardboley North, Balla, Ballyclogher, Ballymacloughlin, Carrownahaun, Garhawnagh
- Placenames
- Pollavaddy 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.