Sheskin

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheskin, from 12 m² to 3,625,863 m² (362.59 ha, 895.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Sheskin 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.

• 10 Nov 2020Refused

  10 YEAR PERMISSION TO DEVELOP AN ELECTRICITY SERVICE, ENTAILING THE LAYING OF APPROXIMATELY 10.4 KILOMETERES OF 38KV UNDERGROUND CABLE FROM THE GRANTED SHESKIN WIND FARM TO CONNECT THE WIND FARM TO THE NATIONAL GRID AT THE EXISTING BELLACORICK 110KV ESB STATION. THE PROPOSED GRID CONNECTION WILL BE INSTALLED ALONG EXISTING PRIVATE TRACKS, THE PUBLIC ROADWAY AND A SHORT SECTION OF PRIVATE AGRICULTURAL LAND.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20834

• 12 Jun 2019Conditional

  AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING PLANNING PERMISSION P15/825 FOR 8 TURBINES WITH AN OVERALL MAX HEIGHT OF 150M, AMENDMENTS TO INCLUDE - AN INCREASE IN THE OVERALL MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF THE TURBINES FROM 150M TO 176M (TURBINES 1-3) AND FROM 150M TO 165M (TURBINES 4-8) COMPRISING A TOWER 95-120M HIGH TO WHICH THREE BLADES OF 55-70M LENGTH WILL BE ATTACHED. AN INCREASE IN THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF THE PERMANENT MET MAST FROM 100M TO 120M. AN INCREASE IN THE DIAMETER OF THE FOUNDATION BASE FROM 22M TO 26M. AN AMENDMENT TO CONDITION NO 46 TO REVISE THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT PAYMENT TO 2 EURO//MWH TO BE CONSISTENT WITH GOVERNMENT GUIDANCE SET OUT UNDER THE RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY SUPPORT SCHEME. THE RED LINE BOUNDARY AND ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF THE PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19457

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: Slieve Fyagh Bog SAC 000542
• Special Area of Conservation: Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC 000500
• Special Area of Conservation: Bellacorick Bog Complex SAC 001922
• Special Area of Conservation: Carrowmore Lake Complex SAC 000476
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Fyagh Bog 000542
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bellacorick Bog Complex 001922
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenamoy Bog Complex 000500
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrowmore Lake Complex 000476

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sheskin.

Architectural heritage

• Sheskin Lodge, hunting/fishing lodge, 1853–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey sporting lodge, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting open porch. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on timber construction with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods visible on overgrown cut-limestone eaves[?]. Part overgrown rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing remains of timber door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including entrance hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled splayed reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in unkempt grounds.

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

At the centre of the townland of Sheskin, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Sheskin.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Sheskin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Sheskin · An Seisceann

Area

28,410,543 m² (2,841.05 ha, 7,020.4 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Erris

Electoral division

Sheskin, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Barroosky, Glencullin Upper, Knockmoyle, Largan Beg, Largan More, Srahlaghy, Srahmeen, Srahnakilly, Srahnaplaia, Tawnaghmore

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Sheskin 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.