Pollacappul

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollacappul, from 1,506 m² to 150,617 m² (15.06 ha, 37.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the construction of single story house & domestic garage with onsite sewerage treatment system & all other site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360865

• 25 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a new two storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23302

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  construct a two bay slatted cattle shed

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23143

• 9 Sept 2022Refused

  for the construction of a new two storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 284 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221041

• 15 Mar 2018Conditional

  to demolish an existing derelict structure and shed and to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 235 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition 143 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18317

• 28 Nov 2017N/a

  to demolish the existing dwelling house and shed, to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 235sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition works 143sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171700

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

• GA044-086 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a hillock in level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 46.2m, E-W 42m) defined by a grassed-over drystone wall with traces of an external batter at NNW. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and S. A grassed-over stony bank (L 34m), running NE-SW, through N half of the interior could be original. Built into the inner face of the enclosing element at NW are the foundations of a rectangular stone structure (NW-SE; L 11m, Wth 4m); possibly a house. 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

• GA044-087 Quarry
  Description

  In reclaimed pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1985 to be quarry pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 July 2014

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

878,907 m² (87.89 ha, 217.18 acres)

Civil parish

Killererin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Hillsbrook, the unit of the census

Census 2022

693 people lived in 236 households in the Hillsbrook electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnaderg North, Cahernagry, Corskeagh More, Kilmore, Omaun Beg

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.