Skehanagh

218 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skehanagh, from 39 m² to 53,440 m² (5.34 ha, 13.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 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.

• 29 Jan 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660117

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  to complete dwellinghouse including waste water treatment and all associated services which has substantial works complete under planning reference number 01/3640

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561738

• 27 May 2025Conditional

  for construction of side & rear single storey extensions including façade amendments to the existing bungalow dwelling and construction of a proposed detached garage. The permission is to include amendments to existing services and landscaping. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60.00 sqm(G), 64 sqm(extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560657

• 6 Mar 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage and installation of effluent treatment system, including all site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 188.10 sqm(house), 30.00 sqm(garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560226

• 26 Oct 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, garage, treatment unit & all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361282

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, garage, treatment unit & all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360876

• 15 Jun 2023N/a

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, garage, treatment unit & all associated services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360652

• 19 May 2022Refused

  and completion of works under Pl Ref 01/3640. The development shall consist of and completion of the dwelling house including waste water treatment and percolation systems and all associated services which has substantial works completed under Pl Ref 01/3640 and alterations to the previously approved elevations, internal floor arrangements and roof details.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22642

• 12 May 2022Conditional

  for: 1) Alterations to site layout including: Re-location of dwelling house, domestic garage and on-site sewage treatment system. 2) Minor alterations to dwelling house including: a reduction in ground floor area from 154m2 to 151m2 and minor changes to external window arrangement. 3) Minor alterations to domestic garage including: an increase in floor area from 32m2 to 45m2, an additional roller door to the front elevation and minor changes to external window arrangement. Gross floor area of retained works: 249sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260479

• 22 Jan 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 182 msq [House] & 40.5 msq [Garage]

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2151

• 23 Jan 2020Conditional

  to construct a dwelling and a garage. The application includes all associated road access, landscaping and site services including wastewater treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 250.90 sqm, Garage - 32 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2063

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 Coy SAC 002117
• Special Area of Conservation: Carrowbaun, Newhall and Ballylee Turloughs SAC 002293

Recorded monuments

• GA114-160 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In rough grazing land. Shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular hachured enclosure (c. 37m N-S; c. 34m E-W); on the 1921 edition it is defined by a wall. No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a ringfort. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 June 2019

• GA114-161 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in otherwise level grassland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 21.4m) is defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall (Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.1m). It is completely overgrown with blackthorn and bramble and a laneway cuts through it at SE. A field-clearance cairn is visible in the centre of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 April 2018

• GA114-162 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pastureland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 45m) was so densely overgrown on inspection in November 1982 that it was impossible to obtain any dimensions of the wall. A roadway cuts through it from NNE to SSW. A souterrain (GA114-162001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 April 2018

• GA114-162001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a cashel (GA114-162001-). The cashel is densely overgrown and no visible surface trace of the souterrain is visible. 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 Skehanagh.

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 Skehanagh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Skehanagh · An Sceachánach

Area

1,558,705 m² (155.87 ha, 385.16 acres)

Civil parish

Kilthomas, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Skehanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

536 people lived in 185 households in the Skehanagh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowbaun East, Dromorehill, Kinmona South, Loughaunawadda, Rahaly, Reaskgarriff, Srah, Tullira

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.