Pollakeel

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollakeel, from 44 m² to 161,315 m² (16.13 ha, 39.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 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 Pollakeel 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.

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  to 1) RETAIN Attic conversion to habitable space to include for 3 no. Dormer windows and 3 no. roof lights. 2) RETAIN alterations and modifications to external elevations. 3) RETAIN existing domestic detached garage. 4) Planning PERMISSION is also sought to erect extension to rear of existing domestic garage and all associated works at site

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560669

• 2 May 2025Conditional

  to retain the existing 32m (including concrete base) telecommunications support structure carrying antenna and dishes, communications cabins and associated site works including solar PV panels contained within a palisade fenced

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560216

• 22 May 2024Conditional

  to demolish existing farm buildings and construct in their place a five bay shed consisting of slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath, calf pens and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2440

• 26 Feb 2024Conditional

  for one & half storey extension to side of existing dwelling, alterations to existing floor plan and elevations, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460062

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  to retain development consisting of (1) retention permission for works carried out to existing single storey type dwelling from that previously granted under file Ref. 02/1574 and all ancillary site works, (2) retention permission for floor plan and elevation amendments, (3) retention permission for site layout amendments, (4) retention permission for domestic garage/store and (5) all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21693

• 10 Sept 2021Conditional

  to erect fully serviced first floor extension to the side of existing dwelling and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21559

• 7 Sept 2021Conditional

  is sought for bungalow, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation and site development works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21560

• 21 Jun 2021Refused

  minor technical amendments to the development permitted under Planning Reg No 16/494 to provide for (i) an increase in the permitted wind turbine rotor diameter from 60 metres to up to 70.5 metres; (ii) re-location of the permitted wind turbine by c. 4 metres to the south together with the re-location of associated ancillary infrastructure; and (iii) all associated site development works. There shall be no increase in the tip height of the permitted wind turbine which shall not exceed 91 metres. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21382

• 16 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct (1) construct new storey and half 3 bedroom detached dwelling with a single storey flat roof side projection (2) construct new detached garage (3) waste water treatment plant and percolation area (4) new vehicular entrance off the public road and (5) all necessary ancillary site development works to facilitate this development

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20575

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  construct workshop within existing farmyard as part of an existing rural based business, connect to existing services and associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20538

• 31 Jul 2019Conditional

  (a) to retain minor alterations to floor plans and elevations of previously approved dwelling, (b) to retain the location of the existing entrance and driveway and (c) PERMISSION to revise the location of the proposed detached domestic garage and all associated works. Previous planning Reg. No. 16/551 refers

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19291

• 9 Jul 2019Conditional

  (a) erection of a new 30m multi-user telecommunications support structure, 3 no. lighting finials and 1 no. new outdoor cabinet, (b) erection of 3 no. antennas and associated remote radio units and 12 no. communication dishes onto the existing 54m high telecommunications support structure and (c) the relocation of existing telecommunications equipment from the existing 54m telecommunications support structure to the new 30m multi-user telecommunications support structure all enclosed within the existing permitted security compound and accessed via the existing permitted site access gate; the development will provide voice and mobile broadband services in the area

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 19260

• 27 Jun 2018Conditional

  to erect fully serviced 2 storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, carport, entrance walls and piers, install sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18270

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  to erect fully serviced single storey extension to side and rear of existing dwelling and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17552

• 15 Feb 2017Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1750

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 Pollakeel.

Recorded monuments

• CV026-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 27.7m) enclosed by a low earthen bank with external fosse infilled from S-W-NW. From NW-N-NE fosse is absent where a stream skirts the outer foot of the bank. Break in bank at NNW may represent original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV026-066 Cairn - burial cairn
  Description

  Located on top of Slieve Glah. A trig. station is constructed on top of a grass-covered cairn (diam. 13m; max. H 3m) that has been partly quarried, but there are indications of a small rectangular cist in its upper surface. It was reported by Michael Gibbons and Jim Higgins. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 May, 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Pollakeel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Pollakeel · Poll an Chaoil

Area

2,050,475 m² (205.05 ha, 506.68 acres)

Civil parish

Denn, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Moynehall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moynehall electoral division: 1,739 people in 592 households; 81% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghateggal or Ryefort, Banagher, Corraweelis, Crumlin, Denn Glebe, Dennmore or Leggandenn, Derryglen, Gallon Glebe, Glencorran, Moher

Placenames

Pollakeel 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.