Pollduff

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollduff, from 3,384 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres) to 323,864 m² (32.39 ha, 80.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Pollduff 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Pollduff in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC 000412
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains 000412

Recorded monuments

• LA010-001 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Located on the mountains above Ballaghmore is a cairn called 'Fear Breige' or 'The Hardy Man' (Roe c. 1940). The area is now forested; not located. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• OF039-044 Enclosure
  Description

  On the E facing slope of high ground in mountainous area. Circular area (27m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) and outer fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 1m). Interior of site steeply slopes from W to E, making it unsuitable as a habitation site. No evidence of an entrance feature. The site is heavily overgrown in an area of recent forest plantation. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a ridge of high ground running in a N-S direction with a river gorge immediately to the W and marsh land to the E. Sub-circular area (31m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 2m; int. H 0.6m) and outer fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 1m) both of which survive from NE through E to SW. Causewayed entrance gap (Wth 3.8m) at S. Bank and outer fosse appear to have been destroyed by gorge at W with modern disturbance from N to NE which has destroyed bank and outer fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-046 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF039-060001 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Situated on top of a mountain with good views in all directions. Irregular shaped stone cairn consisting of a circular tower built of overlapping stones which appears to have been constructed in the 19th century as a county boundary marker by the OS. This monument marks the border between Offaly and Laois and is used as a Trigonometrical station to mark a bench mark of 1408.1 OD. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 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 Pollduff.

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.

No address of the register names Pollduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Pollduff · An Poll Dubh

Area

3,627,167 m² (362.72 ha, 896.29 acres)

Civil parish

Roscomroe, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Roscomroe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Roscomroe electoral division: 159 people in 50 households; 94% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynalack, Ballywilliam, Clashroe, Garranbaun (Co. Laois), Glendine, Newtown

Placenames

Pollduff 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.