# Pollduff, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Roscomroe, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Poll Dubh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,627,167 m² (362.72 ha, 896.29 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 185,502 m² (18.55 ha, 45.84 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Roscomroe, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/roscomroe.md
- Barony: Ballybritt
- Electoral division: Roscomroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41887
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 181018
- Centre: latitude 53.033439, longitude -7.714279 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 291002: 323,864 m² (32.39 ha, 80.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291002.md
- Parcel 271652: 318,930 m² (31.89 ha, 78.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271652.md
- Parcel 278342: 282,807 m² (28.28 ha, 69.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278342.md
- Parcel 278190: 272,731 m² (27.27 ha, 67.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278190.md
- Parcel 359468: 260,083 m² (26.01 ha, 64.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359468.md
- Parcel 310316: 209,980 m² (21 ha, 51.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310316.md
- Parcel 288505: 201,094 m² (20.11 ha, 49.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288505.md
- Parcel 359611: 169,910 m² (16.99 ha, 41.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359611.md
- Parcel 5870737: 158,739 m² (15.87 ha, 39.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5870737.md
- Parcel 278341: 145,104 m² (14.51 ha, 35.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278341.md
- Parcel 293871: 93,705 m² (9.37 ha, 23.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293871.md
- Parcel 308916: 39,478 m² (3.95 ha, 9.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308916.md
- Parcel 277757: 10,727 m² (1.07 ha, 2.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277757.md
- Parcel 4785956: 3,384 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4785956.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Bloom Mountains SAC, site code 000412, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000412
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA, site code 004160, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004160
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains, site code 000412

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LA010-001: Cairn - boundary cairn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA010-001----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-044----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-045----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-046----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-060001-. 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

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 Pollduff.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 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: 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, 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/offaly/pollduff.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/pollduff.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/pollduff.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Pollduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballynalack: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynalack.md
- Ballywilliam: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballywilliam-180220.md
- Clashroe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clashroe.md
- Garranbaun (Co. Laois): https://everytownland.com/laois/garranbaun.md
- Glendine: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glendine-180712.md
- Newtown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/newtown-180986.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.

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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/offaly/pollduff
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/pollduff