# Shessareagh, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeenavarra, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Seiseadh Riabhach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 376,783 m² (37.68 ha, 93.11 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,158 m² (1.22 ha, 3 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeenavarra, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killeenavarra.md - Barony: Dunkellin - Electoral division: Killeenavarra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 903 people lived in 282 households in the Killeenavarra electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19416 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63855 - Centre: latitude 53.141925, longitude -8.901433 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shessareagh, from 362 m² to 68,356 m² (6.84 ha, 16.89 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1965741: 68,356 m² (6.84 ha, 16.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965741.md - Parcel 1984702: 36,043 m² (3.6 ha, 8.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1984702.md - Parcel 1984602: 36,030 m² (3.6 ha, 8.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1984602.md - Parcel 1984603: 35,870 m² (3.59 ha, 8.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1984603.md - Parcel 1984604: 35,225 m² (3.52 ha, 8.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1984604.md - Parcel 1965742: 35,097 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965742.md - Parcel 1984601: 33,953 m² (3.4 ha, 8.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1984601.md - Parcel 1984704: 31,912 m² (3.19 ha, 7.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1984704.md - Parcel 1965744: 12,158 m² (1.22 ha, 3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965744.md - Parcel 1965743: 9,567 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965743.md - Parcel 1965739: 3,195 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1965739.md - Parcel 4463357: 2,327 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4463357.md - Parcel 1984701: 2,197 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1984701.md - Parcel 1984700: 2,058 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1984700.md - Parcel 4689170: 1,812 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4689170.md - Parcel 2499262: 366 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2499262.md - Parcel 2499228: 362 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2499228.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Shessareagh 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) 1 application, newest first. - 28 Nov 2023, Galway County Council 2361421: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 265.50 sqm (house) & 47.40 sqm (garage). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361421/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Shessareagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA113-174: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA113-174----. In an area of flat rocky pastureland. Marked on the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly subrectangular possible enclosure (c. 34m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE). The townland boundary wall between Parkroe and Shessareagh cuts through it from N to SE. No visible surface trace survives to its W. To its E a very poorly preserved earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. and ext. H 0.5-0.7m) is visible from NW through N to E. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 June 2019 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shessareagh. ## 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 Shessareagh, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_627, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_627.zip (ZIP). - 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/shessareagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/shessareagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/shessareagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Shessareagh 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) - Caherawoneen North: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherawoneen-north.md - Cartron: https://everytownland.com/galway/cartron-61057.md - Gortaboy: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortaboy.md - Loughcurra North: https://everytownland.com/galway/loughcurra-north.md - Parkroe: https://everytownland.com/galway/parkroe-63530.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. --- 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/shessareagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/shessareagh