# Seecon, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killannin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish Suí Con.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 7,383,918 m² (738.39 ha, 1,824.61 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 47,992 m² (4.8 ha, 11.86 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killannin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killannin.md
- Barony: Moycullen
- Electoral division: Oughterard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20905
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63791
- Centre: latitude 53.370464, longitude -9.378954 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Seecon, from 928 m² to 3,658,885 m² (365.89 ha, 904.13 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2037478: 3,658,885 m² (365.89 ha, 904.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037478.md
- Parcel 2037474: 3,473,472 m² (347.35 ha, 858.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037474.md
- Parcel 2037477: 105,487 m² (10.55 ha, 26.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037477.md
- Parcel 2037476: 57,014 m² (5.7 ha, 14.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037476.md
- Parcel 2037472: 47,992 m² (4.8 ha, 11.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037472.md
- Parcel 2037475: 37,596 m² (3.76 ha, 9.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037475.md
- Parcel 2037473: 5,091 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037473.md
- Parcel 4456106: 4,536 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456106.md
- Parcel 2037471: 928 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2037471.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Seecon in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 25 Sept 2019, Galway County Council 191481: Conditional. Permission. for a 10 year permission for development at Derradda, Seecon, Shannapheasteen, Uggool, Letter, Finnaun. The development will consist of the following elements; A change to the dimensions of nine previously consented turbines (Galway County Council Planning Reference 10/303 and 11/429 and An Bord Pleanala Planning Reference PL07.239118) from a maximum hub height of 90m and rotor diameter of 101m with a maximum turbine tip height of 140.5m, to a maximum rotor diameter of 138m with a maximum turbine tip height of 156m; Adjust the locations of three turbines as follows: T9 moved 6m, T30 moved 16m & T40 moved 16m; Provision of 1.9km of new internal wind farm access roads, localised upgrades to existing access roads. Underground cable route connecting proposed turbines to the Knockranny substation at Letter, on or adjacent to existing wind farm roads. Three new borrow pits located adjacent to proposed T19, T20 and T31 for rock excavation and peat deposition; Extension of two existing / permitted borrow pit for the excavation of rock and the deposition of surplus peat material. All on a site of approximately 76.07ha. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report and & Natura Impact Statement has been prepared and accompanies this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191481/0
- 18 Jul 2018, Galway County Council 181014: N/a. Permission. for a 10 year planning permission for the development of a 9 turbine wind farm development and associated infrastructure at Derradda, Seecon, Shannapheasteen, Uggool, Doon, Letter, and Finnaun. The development will consist of the following elements: A Change to the dimensions of nine previously consented turbines (Galway County Council Planning Ref. 10/303, 11/249 and An Bord Pleanála Planning Reference PL07.239118) from a maximum hub height of 90m and rotor diameter of 101m with a total turbine tip height of 140.5m to a maximum hub height of 99m and a maximum rotor diameter of 136m with a maximum turbine tip height of 156m; adjust the locations of three turbines as follows; T9 moved 6m, T30 moved 16m & T40 moved 16m; Provision of 1.9km of new internal wind farm access roads, localized upgrades to existing access road and all underground cabling and associated infrastructure. Three new borrow pits located adjacent to proposed T19, T20 and T31 for rock excavation and peat deposition; Extension of an existing/permitted borrow pit for the excavation of rock and the deposition of surplus peat material. An Environmental Impact Statement & Natura Impact statement has been prepared and accompanies this application.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181014/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC, site code 002034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002034
- Special Protection Area: Connemara Bog Complex SPA, site code 004181, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004181
- Natural Heritage Area: Oughterard District Bog NHA, site code 002431, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/002431
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex, site code 002034

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Seecon.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Seecon.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Seecon, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Seecon.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/seecon.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/seecon.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/seecon.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Seecon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Derradda: https://everytownland.com/galway/derradda-61730.md
- Finnaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/finnaun.md
- Lettercraffroe: https://everytownland.com/galway/lettercraffroe.md
- Luggakeeraun: https://everytownland.com/galway/luggakeeraun.md
- Rusheeny: https://everytownland.com/galway/rusheeny-63768.md
- Shannapheasteen: https://everytownland.com/galway/shannapheasteen.md
- Uggool: https://everytownland.com/galway/uggool-64178.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/seecon
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/seecon