Pollawarla

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollawarla, from 121 m² to 150,460 m² (15.05 ha, 37.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Pollawarla 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.

• 3 Apr 2026Refused

  sought to construct two agricultural sheds for the storage of machinery, hay, straw and additional cattle feedstuffs material. Full planning permission also sought to construct a concrete silage slab and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660505

• 10 Mar 2026N/a

  sought to construct a two agricultural sheds for the storage of machinery, hay, straw and additional cattle feedstuffs material. Full planning permission also sought to construct a concrete silage slab and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660363

• 16 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, garage & associated wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: (house) 204 sqm, (garage) 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181459

• 23 May 2017Conditional

  for the permanent placement of soil and topsoil on part of a land plot with an area of 2.58 hectares. The plot of land is adjacent to the proposed upgrade of the N63 at Ballyglunin. Fill depth will vary between 0.1mt - 3.60mt approximately. Access to the plot of land for the placement of soil and topsoil will be via the N63 in the Townland of Pollawarla, Abbeyknockmoy on behalf of Johnston Plant Hire ltd

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17728

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  for the filling of agricultural lands with inert materials comprising of soil and stone and all associated ancillary works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17658

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA058-027002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Immediately N of the Galway-Roscommon road, along which the td. boundary runs. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a roughly pear-shaped area (N-S c. 40m, E-W c. 25m). This contrasts markedly with 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map where it is named 'Burial Ground' and is indicated by a very large circular area (D c. 90m) straddling the road and defined by a broken line that cuts across the field pattern, it actually encompasses part of a house cluster. The remains presently visible are situated in its NW quadrant and comprise a subrectilinear enclosure (N-S 31.7m, E-W c. 24m) defined by the grassed-over foundation lines of a wall. Traces of wall-facings are visible in one or two places. In the interior, orderly rows of small undressed stones indicate burials oriented ENE-WSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Pollawarla, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pollawarla.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Pollawarla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Pollawarla · Poll an Mharla

Area

1,055,085 m² (105.51 ha, 260.72 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyknockmoy, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Abbey West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

884 people lived in 290 households in the Abbey West electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 54% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey, Ballyglooneen, Ballynakilla, Brooklodge Demesne, Caherphuca, Coolfowerbeg, Culliagh North

Placenames

Pollawarla 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.