Shanafaraghaun

119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanafaraghaun, from 407 m² to 1,787,683 m² (178.77 ha, 441.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Shanafaraghaun 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.

• 21 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with wastewater treatment system, entrance road and all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660063

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  for alterations to the house granted permission under planning ref: 20/1338, and construction of a domestic garage and all associated site and service works. This application includes an NIS. Gross floor space of proposed works: 247.28 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21835

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a detached dwelling house, proprietary treatment system and all associated site and service works. This application includes a Natura Impact Statement. Gross floor space of proposed works: 164 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201338

• 12 Jun 2020Refused

  for development consisting of a replacement single storey dwelling house on the site of the derelict family home, waste water treatment system and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 202 sqm, Gross floor space of any demolition; 64sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20726

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumtrasna Mountain Complex 000735

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shanafaraghaun.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Shanafaraghaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Shanafaraghaun · Seanadh Farracháin

Area

6,634,115 m² (663.41 ha, 1,639.33 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Ross, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Dooletter (Co. Mayo), Glennacally (Co. Mayo), Gowlaun, Tawnaleen

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Shanafaraghaun 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.