Pollalaher

95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollalaher, from 3 m² to 636,642 m² (63.66 ha, 157.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Pollalaher 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.

• 18 Aug 2023Conditional

  Retention permission for an existing domestic shed located to the rear of dwelling house at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2360058

• 31 Aug 2022Conditional

  Retention Permission for a rear extension onto dwelling house at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22464

• 29 Jul 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct an extension to the existing nursing home incorporating 44 no. en-suite bedrooms, two dining rooms, living room, activity room, laundry area, staff area, kitchen & utility room, toilets and ancillary rooms for the care of residents, additional car parking, new waste water treatment plant, polishing filter and associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21436

• 21 Feb 2019Conditional

  for erection of dwelling house and domestic garage with sewerage treatment plant and percolation area, and ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1977

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17211

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: Ballynamona Bog and Corkip Lough SAC 002339

Recorded monuments

• RO048-142 Sweathouse
  Description

  At the N end of a N-S esker ridge, and on the E side of a N-S lane but with no houses in the vicinity. This is a drystone-wall construction (int. diam. 1.5m; max. H 0.8m) set into the hillside and open to the W but it is now roofless and the doorway does not survive. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-165 Windmill
  Description

  Marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 at Crosreganen between Cronager and Tobberbridy (Simington 1949), and situated at the S end of N-S ridge. There is local knowledge of a circular stone structure which was removed many years ago. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Pollalaher

Area

2,639,566 m² (263.96 ha, 652.25 acres)

Civil parish

Cam, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Ballynamona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynamona electoral division: 547 people in 178 households; 88% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brideswell, Carrowkeeran, Castlesampson, Corkip, Cornageeha, Knocknanool, Skeanamuck, Tawnagh

Placenames

Pollalaher 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.