Pollagh

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pollagh, from 111 m² to 371,379 m² (37.14 ha, 91.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Pollagh 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 Dec 2025N/a

  to carry out the following works: 1 - Construction of new dog kennels with associated metal gates, fences & lights. 2 - Construction of a new domestic garage with domestic storage above. 3 – All associated site developments works at the site

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560816

• 25 Sept 2024Conditional

  (a) demolition of non-original single storey extension to rear, (b) replacement with the construction of a single storey orangerie style conservatory to the rear, (c) internal alterations to layouts at ground and first floor levels involving new openings in existing walls and new walls, (d) lowering of a section of the ground floor and installation of a domestic lift for universal access, (e) alterations to external opes to rear and sides and (f) all associated works required

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460456

• 12 Sept 2022Refused

  for extension of duration of planning permission number 17/60

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 22599

• 29 May 2019Refused

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling, onsite wastewater treatment system, splayed entrance, bored well and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19374

• 8 May 2019N/a

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling, onsite wastewater treatment system, splayed entrance, bored well and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19307

• 7 Feb 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a four bedroom part single, part two storey dwelling, including rooflights: and a detached single storey domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 1953

• 7 Feb 2017Conditional

  for the erection of an extension and alterations to existing dwelling house, upgrading existing sewerage facilities and relocation of existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 1760

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• KK025-023 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated as a large subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 65m N-S; c. 74m E-W) with a public road running NW-SE through the centre. On the 1900 revision only the S portion, S of the road, is indicated. Satellite imagery suggests that both the N and S portions of the enclosure are now levelled, though the outline may be traceable at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 March 2022

• KK025-025 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  A large boulder, named on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision in Gothic script as, 'Cloghvickree' which is an anglised version of the Irish 'Cloch mhic rí' which means the 'stone of the king's son'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 March 2022

• KK025-026 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In the SW angle of a field of rough pasture. Templeboy church (KK025-027001-) was located immediately S, in the N part of the adjacent field (as suggested on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or c. 160m to the ESE (as indicated on the 1900 revision and 25-inch map). Indicated as 'Toberboy' on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and a 'Toberboy (Site of)' on the 1900 revision. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 March 2022

• KK025-027001 Church
  Description

  The precise location of this church is unclear. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map to the left/W of the words, 'Site of Templeboy Church', a rectangular area (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 15m N-S) is indicated. The lower/S and E portion of which is shown by a dotted line, indicating a general area, rather than a specific location, immediately S and E of a field boundary. A holy well, 'Toberboy' is indicated 10m to the N, in the adjoining field. On the 1900 revision and 25-inch OS map the church site is indicated with a cross in a small field (dims. c. 22m NW-SE; c. 13m NE-SW) to the W of Gothic script on the 1st ed. map. This is shown as a slightly bigger field, or haggard, on the 1st ed. map, immediately S of a farmyard. According to O'Kelly (1969, 88) the church, 'is known locally as Teámpall beag and the site is in the Cillín field'. The small field indicated as the church site on the 1900 revision has been removed, though the SW field boundary and the S portion of the NW boundary have been retained. There is no trace of the church at ground level at either location. A possible children's burial ground (KK025-027003-) has been located to the area indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. Until more precise information is available, the church has been located to the small field indicated on the 1900 revision of the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 March 2022

• KK025-027003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  According to O'Kelly (1969, 88) the Templeboy Church (KK025-027001-), 'is known locally as Teámpall beag and the site is in the Cillín field'. The term 'Cillín field' suggests a possible children's burial ground in the vicinity of the church. The precise location of this church is unclear. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map to the left/W of the words, 'Site of Templeboy Church', a rectangular area (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 15m N-S) is indicated. The lower/S and E portion of which is shown by a dotted line, indicating a general area, rather than a specific location, immediately S and E of a field boundary. A holy well, 'Toberboy' is indicated 10m to the N, in the adjoining field. On the 1900 revision and 25-inch OS map the church site is indicated with a cross in a small field (dims. c. 22m NW-SE; c. 13m NE-SW) to the W of Gothic script on the 1st ed. map. This is shown as a slightly bigger field, or haggard, on the 1st ed. map, immediately S of a farmyard. The small field indicated as the church site on the 1900 revision has been removed, though the SW field boundary and the S portion of the NW boundary have been retained. There is no trace of the church at ground level at either location. Until more precise information is available, the possible children's burial ground has been located to the rectangular area indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map, which is currently an unenclosed area in the NW angle of a reclaimed field. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 March 2022

• KK025-028 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a small wooded area. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1900 revision as 'Tobernavean', with a stream running eastward from the well. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 March 2022

Architectural heritage

• Mount Loftus, country house, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, reconstructed post-1934, on a U-shaped plan incorporating fabric of earlier house, built 1906, on site of earlier house, 1750-4, comprising three-bay two-storey central bay with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre ground floor, single-bay two-storey gabled advanced flanking end bays, two-bay two-storey return to north-east, and five-bay two-storey return to north-west terminating in single-bay two-storey higher end bay to north. Pitched slate roofs (gablet over window opening to centre first floor; gabled to end bays) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses, rooflights, timber bargeboards, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging exposed timber eaves. Flat roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Irregular coursed squared rubble granite walls with rock-faced cut-granite dressings including quoins to corners, stringcourse to porch supporting frieze, carved cornice, and blocking course to parapet. Square-headed window openings (some paired; some camber-headed window openings to rear (north) elevation) with cut-granite sills, yellow brick block-and-start surrounds (some having render over), and one-over-one timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening to porch in tripartite arrangement with square-headed flanking window openings, cut-granite Doric doorcase having engaged columns supporting open-bed pediment, timber panelled door having leaded stained glass overlight, and cut-stone sills to flanking openings having fixed-pane fittings with leaded panels. Segmental-headed door opening to rear (north) elevation with rock-faced cut-granite block-and-start surround, glazed timber double doors having sidelights on panelled risers, and fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds.

• Mount Loftus, farmyard complex, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, established 1750, including:(i) Detached seven-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic with single-bay single-storey gabled higher central bay. Extended, pre-1903, comprising five-bay single-storey split level lateral range to left terminating in two-bay single-storey end bay having pair of camber-headed carriageways. Pitched slate roofs (gabled to central bay) with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping to party wall to end bay, rooflight, timber bargeboards having finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Random rubble stone walls. Round-headed door openings in grouped (three-part) arrangement with lunette flanking window openings having cut-limestone surrounds rising into voussoirs incorporating keystones, tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors having blind overpanels, cut-limestone sills to window openings, cut-limestone voussoirs incorporating keystones, and fixed-pane timber windows. Pair of camber-headed carriageways to end bay with cut-limestone surrounds incorporating keystones, and no fittings. Set back from road in grounds shared with Mount Loftus.(ii) Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with rendered surrounds, and fittings not discerned. Round-headed door openings with rendered surrounds, and fittings not discerned.(iii) Detached three-bay single-storey stable building with half-attic. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rooflight, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Lunette window openings with cut-limestone sills, rendered surrounds, and timber panel fittings. Round-headed door openings with rendered surrounds, and timber doors.

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 Pollagh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Pollagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Pollagh · An Phollach

Area

2,571,797 m² (257.18 ha, 635.5 acres)

Civil parish

Powerstown, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Powerstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

524 people lived in 180 households in the Powerstown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyellin and Tomdarragh (Co. Carlow), Ballyteigelea (Co. Carlow), Barrowmount, Gorteen, Mountloftus, Tincouse, Tinnakeenly, Tomnahaha

Placenames

Pollagh 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.