Sessiagh (Allison)

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sessiagh (Allison), from 52 m² to 64,161 m² (6.42 ha, 15.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Sessiagh (Allison) 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.

• 6 Jul 2026Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TOTAL OF 34 NO. DWELLING UNITS COMPRISING 1 NO. TWO STOREY SHELTERED HOUSING BLOCK OF 10 NO. APARTMENT UNITS, 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY 5 BED GROUP HOMES, 2 NO. TWO STOREY BLOCKS ACCOMMODATING 8 NO. APARTMENT UNITS, 2 NO. TWO STOREY 3 BED SEMI DETACHED HOUSES, AND 1 NO. 3 & 4 BED TWO STOREY SEMI DETACHED HOUSES, THE REMOVAL OF SUB-STRUCTURES OF 9 NO. DWELLINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE AS PREVIOUSLY CONSTRUCTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 04/9169 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES ON SITE

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650093

• 4 Apr 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF 2 NO. OUTBUILDINGS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN OVER GROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK (4M HIGH x 25M DIAMETER) AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560502

• 13 May 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN OVERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK 4.0M HIGH X 30.0M DIAMETER INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460694

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  MOBILE HOME AS A TEMPORARY STRUCTURE FOR THE DURATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) RENOVATION WORKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT, REAR AND SIDES OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORAGE SHED AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351972

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A MILKING PARLOUR WITH SLATTED HOLDING AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152602

• 10 Dec 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A NEW COMMERCIAL SHED AND REPLACEMENT OF AN EXISTING STRUCTURE WITH A NEW STORAGE SHED INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152465

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TOTAL OF 34 NO. DWELLING UNITS COMPRISING 1 NO. TWO STOREY SHELTERED HOUSING BLOCK OF 10 NO. APARTMENT UNITS, 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY 5 BED GROUP HOMES, 2 NO. TWO STOREY BLOCKS ACCOMMODATING 8 NO. APARTMENT UNITS, 2 NO. TWO STOREY 3 BED SEMI DETACHED HOUSES, AND 1 NO. 3 & 4 BED TWO STOREY SEMI DETACHED HOUSES, THE REMOVAL OF SUB-STRUCTURES OF 9 NO. DWELLINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE AS PREVIOUSLY CONSTRUCTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 04/9169 & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES ON SITE

  Permission, 26 homes · Donegal County Council, 2051955

• 29 May 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2NO. AGRICULTURAL SHEDS WITH SLATTED SLURRY TANK BELOW AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750823

• 19 May 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. AGRICULTURAL SHEDS WITH SLATTED SLURRY TANK BELOW AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750766

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Sessiagh (Allison).

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sessiagh (Allison).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sessiagh (Allison).

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 Sessiagh (Allison), 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1868 (ZIP).

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 Sessiagh (Allison) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Sessiagh (Allison) · An Seisíoch

Area

500,499 m² (50.05 ha, 123.68 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Castlefinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,252 people lived in 488 households in the Castlefinn electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Breaghy, Castlefinn, Grahamsland, Sessiagh (Long)

Placenames

Sessiagh (Allison) 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.