Cloonsheecahill
Townland in the civil parish of Killimordaly, barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway; in Irish Cluain Sí Cathail
- Area
- 289.1 ha
- 714 acres
- Land parcels
- 183
- registered freehold, median 5,248 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 23
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
183 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonsheecahill, from 46 m² to 116,312 m² (11.63 ha, 28.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonsheecahill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Jul 2026Conditional
for a change in house design on previously granted planning reference 24/205 and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661203
18 May 2026Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling along with an on site wastewater treatment system, domestic garage & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660783
4 Sept 2025N/a
for the construction of a dwelling along with an on-site wastewater treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561248
18 Jul 2024Refused
for the construction of a dwelling along with an on-site wastewater treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 178.69 sqm (H) & 43.2 (G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24205
26 Jun 2024Conditional
of revised fully serviced dwelling house and revised garage/store on revised site to include all associated site works. Previous planning reference: 05/3525. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 291.85 sqm (H), 110.51 sqm (G).
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24172
9 Jun 2024Conditional
for the construction of a two-storey dwelling, domestic garage, proposed new sewage treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 204.00 sqm (house) & 60.00 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460694
3 Jun 2024Conditional
for the construction of a two-storey dwelling (221sq.m), domestic garage (60sq.m), new sewage treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460663
24 May 2024Conditional
of the location of treatment plant and polishing filter
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460605
7 Aug 2023Conditional
for minor alterations of dwellinghouse (previous pl. ref. no: 21/1344)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360918
21 Jul 2022Refused
for the construction of a dwelling along with an on-site wastewater treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 209 sqm, Garage: 43.2 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22894
17 Jun 2022Refused
for the construction of a dwelling along with an on-site wastewater treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 211.5sqm & Garage: 43.2sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22783
17 Jun 2022Refused
for the construction of a dwelling along with an on-site wastewater treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works . Gross floor space of proposed works, House 224 sqm & Garage 43.20 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22784
17 Jun 2022Refused
for the construction of a dwelling along with on site wastewater treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 209 sqm (house) & 43.2 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22785
24 Mar 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 228 sqm (dwelling house) and 35 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260278
11 Nov 2021Refused
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with wastewater treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 135.75 sqm (house) & 53.94 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212100
29 Sept 2021Refused
to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 228 sqm (house) & 35 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211795
22 Jul 2021Refused
for the construction of a dwelling along with an on-site wastewater treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 209 sqm (house) & 43.2 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211345
22 Jul 2021Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling along with an on-site wastewater treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 209 sqm (house) & 43.2 (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211344
19 Jul 2019Conditional
for minor alterations which have been carried out to existing house, including conversion of attic floor, pervious pl. ref. no. 00/4963. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 333 sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191118
12 Apr 2019Conditional
for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 236 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19559
8 Aug 2018Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, treatment plant and raised percolation area and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 198 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181120
12 Jun 2017Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwellinghouse with treatment unit, polishing filter and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated works (gross floor space 199.82sqm; garage 53.94sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17847
6 Feb 2017Conditional
for the change of house design on previously granted planning reference no. 07/1780 & extension grant 12/1069.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17123
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Natural Heritage Area: Raford River Bog NHA 000321
Recorded monuments
- GA085-042 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
On a prominent rise in low-lying marshland. Subcircular rath (E-W 34m, N-S 30m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. The latter is present from W to NW and from NE through E to SSE. A gap at SSE may be original. A series of hollows in the interior appear modern. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonsheecahill.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonsheecahill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonsheecahill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonsheecahill · Cluain Sí Cathail
- Area
- 2,891,238 m² (289.12 ha, 714.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killimordaly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Electoral division
- Killimor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killimor electoral division: 373 people in 141 households; 87% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brackloon, Caraun Beg, Creevagh, Derrynamanagh, Knockroe, Lenamore
- Placenames
- Cloonsheecahill 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.