Pollacappul

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollacappul, from 296 m² to 343,622 m² (34.36 ha, 84.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Pollacappul 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.

• 5 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct an agricultural storage shed

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561263

• 25 Jul 2025N/a

  to construct an agricultural storage shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 102.30 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561020

• 15 Apr 2024Conditional

  to construct a silage slab. Gross floor space of proposed works: 336 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24104

• 25 May 2021Refused

  for the construction of a new two story family dwelling on family land's, with detached garage, all served by new sewage treatment system and raised polishing filter percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 289 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21882

• 20 Apr 2021N/a

  for the following: - The construction of a new two story family dwelling on family land's, with detached garage, all served by new sewage treatment system and raised polishing filter percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 289 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21628

• 12 Feb 2020Conditional

  to construct stables including all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 246 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20166

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Pollacappul.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pollacappul.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Pollacappul, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_898 (ZIP).

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 Pollacappul with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Pollacappul · Poll an Chapaill

Area

695,748 m² (69.57 ha, 171.92 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Athenry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,765 people lived in 2,069 households in the Athenry electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherroyn, Gloves West, Kilcornan, Kingsland North, Kingsland South

Placenames

Pollacappul 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.