Pollnashinnagh

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollnashinnagh, from 54 m² to 92,882 m² (9.29 ha, 22.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Pollnashinnagh 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.

• 29 Apr 2021Refused

  for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 162.6 sqm, Garage: 30 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21696

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 Pollnashinnagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle N-facing slope in pastureland. This well-preserved rath is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. There is a causewayed entrance gap at S. The townland boundary wall overlies the outer bank from SW to NNE. No visible surface trace of the internal stone-facing noted by McCaffrey (1952, 245, no. 150) on the inner bank survives. This site of a souterrain (GA104-065001-) is evident in the NW quadrant of the interior and in the S sector a subdivision that is subrectangular (L 20.2m; Wth 16.1m) in plan. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018

• GA104-065001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the NW quadrant of a rath (GA104-065----). McCaffrey (1952, 245, no. 150) refers to the presence of a souterrain. It was subsequently robbed out and an L-shaped depression (L>17.5m) running NNE-SSW for 11m and E-W for 6.5m marks its site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Pollnashinnagh, 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 Pollnashinnagh.

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

Name

Pollnashinnagh · Poll na Sionnach

Area

471,121 m² (47.11 ha, 116.42 acres)

Civil parish

Killinan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilchreest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 111 households in the Kilchreest electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinla, Ballyshea, Isertkelly North, Roxborough

Placenames

Pollnashinnagh 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.