Skehanagh

113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skehanagh, from 20 m² to 136,879 m² (13.69 ha, 33.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Skehanagh 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.

• 17 Jan 2022Conditional

  Planning application for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 247.90 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260013

• 22 Jan 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, on site wastewater treatment system and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 161.1 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2149

• 2 Mar 2017Conditional

  for the construction of dwelling house domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 256 sqm dwelling, 36 sqm. garage.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17285

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Natural Heritage Area: Killaclogher Bog NHA 001280

Recorded monuments

• GA059-060 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In grassland on a gentle W-facing slope, c. 80m S of the td. boundary. An unenclosed subrectangular area (E-W 19.4m, N-S 12.5m) occupied by a dense concentration of small set stones indicating graves oriented E-W. 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

• GA059-061 Church
  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.

• GA059-061001 Church
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic Church, dated 1861, having five-bay nave with side aisle to south, gabled entrance porch to north with datestone, gabled transept to south with ashlar limestone bellcote at apex. Pitched slate roof, with painted stone copings to skew gables, nave and porch gables surmounted by limestone cross finials, and having replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered and painted walls, projecting rendered plinth, projection accommodating altar to east gable. Slit windows to upper east wall of transept, having chamfered limestone surrounds, and having plaque with date 1861. Lancet window openings elsewhere, with replacement uPVC windows having stained glass, and recessed painted stone sills. Pointed-arch door openings to porch and to west end of side aisle, having double-leaf timber battended doors. Interior has pointed-arch arcade to side aisle, supported on square-plan piers. Choir balcony to south end of nave with decorative wrought-iron balustrade and timber base, supported on four columns flanking central aisle. Pointed-arch recess with moulded plaster surround behind altar. Timber sheeted ceiling. Set back from road with squared and snecked limestone boundary wall, graveyard to south and car park to north.

• J. Costello, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey public house and dwelling, built c.1880, having five-bay first floor and six-bay ground floor, and with single-storey flat-roofed late twentieth-century extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with four brick chimneystacks, exposed rafter ends, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Square-headed window openings with timber two-over-two pane sliding sash windows, and tooled limestone sills. Painted four-panel timber door to house end, with render block-and-start surround. Double-leaf glazed timber entrance door to pub front flanked by plate-glass windows with moulded surrounds, having central mullions and limestone sills. Timber fascia with raised lettering and bracketed ends above pub front.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Skehanagh · An Sceachánach

Area

2,236,321 m² (223.63 ha, 552.61 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Derryglassaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryglassaun electoral division: 976 people in 332 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbert Demesne, Ballynamona, Carrowmore, Clooncurreen, Derryglassaun, Esker, Gilkagh

Placenames

Skehanagh 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.