Cossaun

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cossaun, from 64 m² to 211,233 m² (21.12 ha, 52.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Cossaun 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 2024Conditional

  for construction of a slatted tank within an existing shed and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 73.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461522

• 26 Aug 2024Conditional

  of an existing agricultural shed and all associated works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2461107

• 5 Jul 2024N/a

  of an existing agricultural cattle shed and permission for the construction of a slatted tank within the retained shed and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 73.00 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2460839

• 2 Oct 2019Conditional

  of alterations to dwelling house granted under planning reference number 05/3155 and for permission to construct a conservatory extension and domestic garage / fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Extension - 14.6 sqm, Garage - 59.88 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 155.75 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191523

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 Cossaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA071-028 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On a slight hummock in otherwise level recently cleared pastureland. An oval barrow (E-W 24.3m, N-S 17.75m), in fair condition, composed of a slightly raised central area (D 11.25m, H 0.6m max.) encircled by a shallow fosse and external bank. The bank and fosse have been dug out at SE and the latter has been refilled with rubble. There is a small hollow (D c. 0.5m) to E of centre. 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 Cossaun.

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 Cossaun, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Cossaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cossaun · An Cosán

Area

1,089,736 m² (108.97 ha, 269.28 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Belleville, the unit of the census

Census 2022

670 people lived in 223 households in the Belleville electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belleville Demesne, Caherateemore South, Caraun, Carnaun, Castle Ellen, Mountbrowne, Saintellen, Sheeaunpark

Placenames

Cossaun 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.