Sheeaun

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheeaun, from 21 m² to 143,390 m² (14.34 ha, 35.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Sheeaun 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 Mar 2025Conditional

  for a 10 Year planning permission for the further development of a quarry, permitted under Pl. Ref. P09/415 to a final depth of 30.50 mAOD. The development will consist of Proposed continue extraction activities in the existing quarry void above the watertable, and to laterally extend the existing quarry void to the east and south; Extraction of a total volume of 325,000 tonnes on site over an area of c. 2.851 ha; Proposed tarmac surface and ramped surfaces, landscaping, and indigenous tree planting; Preservation and augmentation of the existing vegetation and planting; Provision of site drainage infrastructure; Existing septic tank to be decommissioned and all associated piping to be removed; Installation of a proposed polishing filter and treatment plant; Proposed maintenance track access gate and associated safety fence; Construction of an area dedicated to truck parking and car parking; Mineral processing activities, the loading of materials, the transportation of materials from the quarry and all related ancillary works related to the same; All associated site development and operational works; and All ancillary apparatus and site development works above and below ground, including soft and hard landscaping and drainage infrastructure; The recovery of inert waste arising from construction & demolition (C&D) activity, via the importation of inert material (under Waste Facility permit or as by End of Waste (in accordance with Article 28 of the European Communities (Waste Directive) Regulations 2011 (as amended) and the operation of an inert recycling facility to create recycled aggregates in accordance with the National End-of-Waste Criteria-Recycled Aggregates (EoW-N001/2023); Propose to restore the site, through the excavation and backfilling of areas; Restoration of quarry to its surrounding/former ground level using naturally occurring materials, principally inert soil and stone generated by construction and development activity and imported as waste under Waste Facility permit or as by-product, site restoration will be carried out on a phased basis. This application is accompanied by an NIS

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560256

• 15 Jun 2021Refused

  to construct a dwellinghouse, garage/store, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all associated works. floor area of house - 281.86sqm, garage - 48.83sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211058

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Termon Lough SAC 001321
• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• GA128-072 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In scrubland. This very poorly preserved oval cashel (c. 35m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) is defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall that is overlain by a later field wall from N to E. Some facing-stones are evident from S to W. A NE-SW running field wall clips the monument from SE to SSW. There is a souterrain (GA128-072001-) in the NW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 April 2018

• GA128-072001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the NW quadrant of a cashel (GA128-072001-). This souterrain has collapsed and is marked by a linear stone-filled depression (L >6.2m; Wth 1.2m) running NE-SW. Traces of the side-walls survive at its NE end. It curves slightly to the S at the SW end where it is blocked by stones and a tree. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 April 2018

• GA128-073 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In scrubland. This poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 33.2m) is defined by a much-collapsed and completely overgrown drystone wall. A field wall cuts through the monument from SE to S. (Fahey 1893, 5) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 April 2018

• GA128-074 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In an area of improved grassland and rock outcrop. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S). A ‘Cave’ (GA128-074001-) is marked within the interior on the 1838 edition of the map. The monument was levelled during land-improvement operations and no visible surface trace survives. Some of the material in the large pile of clearance stone in its vicinity may have come from it suggesting that it may have been a cashel. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 June 2019

• GA128-074001 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA128-075 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA128-076 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope in an area of pastureland and scrub, immediately to the W of the townland boundary wall. When initially visited in August 1982 this children's burial ground consisted of an unenclosed oval area (7.6m NW-SE; 7.1m NE-SW) in which several set and recumbent grave-markers were visible. A hawthorn tree was growing roughly in its NE quadrant. To its NE the foundations of a modern rectangular house were evident. On re-inspection in September 1991 the burial ground was not visible due to the dense and high growth of ferns . Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 September 2019

• GA128-077 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On SE shoulder of a low hill. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 43m); parallel running NW-SE field boundaries cut across it from N to E and from NW to SE. On inspection in August 1982 only very slight traces of the enclosing wall of a cashel (Wth 4.2m; int./ext. H 1.4-1.5m) were evident at NE and SW. On re-inspection in September 1991 due to dense overgrowth of ferns no visible surface trace survived. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 August 2019

• GA128-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland. This poorly preserved oval rath (43m E-W; 31.5m NW-SE) is defined by a bank from NE to SW. It is overlain by field boundaries from NE to E and from S to SW. Another field boundary cuts through the rath at NE and SW and the bank has been levelled to its NW. However, its outline is clearly visible on the current OSi digitalglobe AP (April 2018). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 April 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_729 (ZIP).

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

Name

Sheeaun · An Suíochán

Area

1,446,591 m² (144.66 ha, 357.46 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Beagh electoral division: 789 people in 274 households; 92% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Ballyboy, Ballysheedy, Knockauncoura, Lisheen, Newtown (Glynn), Newtown (Regan)

Placenames

Sheeaun 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.