Fiddaun

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fiddaun, from 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 128,702 m² (12.87 ha, 31.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Fiddaun 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.

• 24 Mar 2026Conditional

  of (1) existing dwelling, existing domestic garage, retain and complete fuel store on revised site boundaries.(2) Permission sought to demolish existing front porch and construct new front porch. (3) Install new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated siteworks

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660441

• 14 Oct 2025Refused

  of (1) side extension to existing dwelling and conversion of attic space to storage area, (2) retain and complete fuel store, (3) permission sought to demolish existing front porch and construct new front porch &(4) install new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated siteworks

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561493

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 Fiddaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA031-035 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a slight rise in gently undulating grassland, surrounded by a field system (GA031-035001-). In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Melaghlin Mc an Abbe' (Nolan 1901b, 122). All that survives is a rectangular depression (L 11.7m, Wth 7.5m) surrounded by grassed-over banks of collapsed rubble. An internal division is visible within the depression. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 230) 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

• GA031-035001 Field system
  Description

  Surrounding a castle (GA031-035----). A series of poorly preserved banks, lazy beds and depressions, forming no coherent plan, cover an area c. 150m NE-SW by c. 100m NW-SE. Two small semicircular mounds, close to SE limits, may be collapsed limekilns. A number of drainage ditches are also visible to SW of the castle and a possible trackway to N. 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 Fiddaun.

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 Fiddaun, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Fiddaun · An Feadán

Area

876,775 m² (87.68 ha, 216.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Shankill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

355 people lived in 131 households in the Shankill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Attidavock, Highstreet, Marganure, Patch, Shankill East, Shankill West

Placenames

Fiddaun 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.