Pollerton Big

818 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollerton Big, from 1 m² to 342,671 m² (34.27 ha, 84.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 66 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing / Infill Residential (Existing residential)
  Carlow_County_Development_Plan_2022_2028_Variation_Number_4_Carlow_Town_and_Environs, Carlow · 752 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space and Amenity (Open space, park)
  Carlow_County_Development_Plan_2022_2028_Variation_Number_4_Carlow_Town_and_Environs, Carlow · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Carlow_County_Development_Plan_2022_2028_Variation_Number_4_Carlow_Town_and_Environs, Carlow · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.2Retail Warehousing (Retail warehouse)
  Carlow_County_Development_Plan_2022_2028_Variation_Number_4_Carlow_Town_and_Environs, Carlow · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Carlow_County_Development_Plan_2022_2028_Variation_Number_4_Carlow_Town_and_Environs, Carlow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Carlow_County_Development_Plan_2022_2028_Variation_Number_4_Carlow_Town_and_Environs, Carlow · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Carlow_County_Development_Plan_2022_2028_Variation_Number_4_Carlow_Town_and_Environs, Carlow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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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 Pollerton Big.

Recorded monuments

• CW002-014 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 According to local information, enclosure visible as cropmark noted here. Not visible at time of inspection.

• CW007-002 Dovecote
  Description

  Described by Kelly (1972, 45), now levelled. No evidence to suggest a medieval date for this. Reference: Kelly M. T. 1972 The Burtons of Pollacton in Carloviana (Vol. 21). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW007-003 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Circular enclosure covered in trees indicated on the 1908 OS '6-inch map', now levelled. No evidence to suggest that it is anything other than a landscape feature. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW007-005 Armorial plaque
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Arms of Wall and Walsh families, date 1630 and the words 'ULLICKE WALE IYAN WAILSHE, THE LORD IS MY STREINHE' found in garden of Pollerton House and subsequently built into wall. Said to have come originally from wall over hall door of old Pollardstown House, which stood at the rear of the more recent house of same name (demolished c 1972). Cargan (Kernanstown), Pollerton, Urghlin and Johnstown are shown as belonging to Wall family on Down Survey; stone may alternatively have come from nearby Cargan Castle (CW007-008----). Now in Carlow Museum.

Architectural heritage

• Pollerton House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c. 1870, comprising group of limestone ashlar piers with plinths, entablatures, ball finials and cast-iron gates and railings.

• Pollerton House, gate lodge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey stone built gate lodge, c. 1870, on an L-shaped plan with projecting porch and bow window.

• Pollerton House, building misc, 1840–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of granite 'Carlow fencing', c. 1870.

• Pollerton House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c. 1820, comprising ashlar piers with ball finials having curved limestone walls. Replacement double and wicket iron gates, c. 1995.

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 Pollerton Big, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2549 (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 Pollerton Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Pollerton Big · Baile Pholaird Mór

Area

1,562,001 m² (156.2 ha, 385.98 acres)

Civil parish

Carlow, and its townlands

Barony

Carlow

Electoral division

Carlow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

16,203 people lived in 5,763 households in the Carlow Rural electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakillbeg, Kernanstown, Pollerton Little, Rathnapish, Urglin or Rutland

Placenames

Pollerton Big 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.