Pollranny (Lynchaghan)
Townland in the civil parish of Achill, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Poll Raithní (Lynchaghan)
- Area
- 364.8 ha
- 902 acres
- Land parcels
- 195
- registered freehold, median 4,120 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
195 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollranny (Lynchaghan), from 62 m² to 1,056,756 m² (105.68 ha, 261.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Pollranny (Lynchaghan) 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
1 Sept 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration: construct a lean-to dry store agricultural shed
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25356
2 May 2025Conditional
construct a dry store agricultural shed and concrete apron including all associated site development work
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560261
28 Jun 2024Conditional
redevelopment of the existing dwelling house, the upgrading of septic tank and soakaway to proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24249
6 Jun 2024Conditional
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, PACKAGED WASTEWATER/EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND TERTIARY POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460345
17 May 2024Conditional
retain the existing dwelling house as built, retain the existing garage as built, replace the existing septic tank and proprietary treatment unit, together with associated site services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 24172
31 Jul 2023Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360307
20 Dec 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211347
11 Oct 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND TO INCLUDE ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Mayo County Council, 211081
6 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21444
2 Sept 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, PACKAGED WASTEWATER/EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND TERTIARY POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19683
12 Jun 2018Conditional
RETAIN DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 18430
12 Feb 2018Conditional
RETENTION OF EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE RETENTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALTERATIONS TO SITE LAYOUT
Retention · Mayo County Council, 1880
3 Nov 2017Conditional
ESSENTIAL REPAIRS TO EXISTING 38KV LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT STATION AND ACHILL STATION. WORKS WILL INCLUDE REPLACING EXISTING DOUBLE WOOD POLES, STAYS AND HEADGEAR IN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARRICKANEADY, CLOONESHIL, DRUMLONG, CAMCLOON, DERRYLOUGHAN, DERRINTAGGART, KILTARNAGH, SHANVALLYHUGH, DERRADA, DERRYCOOLDRIM, CARROWSALLAGH, KNOCKBREAGA, TIERNAUR, ROSSGALIV, ROSSTUR, BUNNAHOWN, MURREVAGH, MALLARANNY, COIS LEICE, AN ABHAINN DUBH, TON RE GAOTH, POLL RAITHNI
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17872
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 Pollranny (Lynchaghan).
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollranny (Lynchaghan).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pollranny (Lynchaghan).
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Pollranny (Lynchaghan).
- 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 Pollranny (Lynchaghan) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Pollranny (Lynchaghan) · Poll Raithní (Lynchaghan)
- Area
- 3,648,262 m² (364.83 ha, 901.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Corraun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Corraun electoral division: 712 people in 279 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cartron, Pollranny (Sweeny), Tonregee West
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Pollranny (Lynchaghan) 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.