Shoodaun

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shoodaun, from 33 m² to 140,345 m² (14.03 ha, 34.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 51 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 Shoodaun 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.

• 20 Nov 2025Conditional

  for an existing granny flat/independent living unit adjacent to existing dwellinghouse. Permission also is sought to construct a new waste water treatment system and percolation area to service both the dwellinghouse and granny flat

  Retention · Galway County Council, 25318

• 30 Oct 2025Conditional

  for an existing horse stables within her existing farmyard including all associated works and services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 25300

• 24 Oct 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse & a garage with treatment plant & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361273

• 20 Apr 2023Conditional

  on a revised site, for the changes to the house & to the garage from the original house & garage granted under planning permission 03/6164. The two main changes are: 1) the conversion of the attic space of the house into habitable accommodation, 2) the ridge height of the garage exceeds the original height granted

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23155

• 12 May 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a single dwelling and domestic garage, along with an on-site treatment system. Gross floor area of proposed works: 265.30sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260480

• 18 Mar 2021Refused

  to construct shed for storage purposes. Gross floor space of proposed works: 131.76 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21397

• 28 Apr 2020Conditional

  to retain alterations to their existing dwelling which includes a first floor bedroom and to retain an existing domestic shed/garage including all associated works and dervices. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 106sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20519

• 17 May 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage along with an on-site sewage treatment system and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 209.5 sqm. (garage) 39 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18636

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

Recorded monuments

• GA071-079 Chapel
  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.

• GA071-079002 Sheela-na-gig (present location)
  Description

  In the entrance porch of the Catholic church at Newcaslte. It consists of a damaged corbel on teh under-surface of which is a weathered carving of a Sheela-na-gig. The original location of this corbel is unknown though it is likely to have been of local provenance. In that regard, it has been suggested (Mannion 2008, 18) that it may have been associated with Templemoyle medieval church (GA084-127002-). See attached screenshots of 3D model of Sheela-na-gig created by Digital Heritage Age. 3D model can be accessed on the Sketchfab website at: https://skfb.ly/6qPxA J. Mannion, 'Tech Saxan. An Anglo-Saxon monastic settlement in early medieval east Galway.' Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 60(2008), 17-18, Pl. 3. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 December 2011

• GA072-056 Boundary mound
  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.

• GA085-038 Boundary mound
  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.

• GA085-039 Boundary mound
  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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shoodaun.

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 Shoodaun, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Shoodaun · Siúdán

Area

2,203,905 m² (220.39 ha, 544.6 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Graigabbey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

421 people lived in 135 households in the Graigabbey electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bingarra, Cappaghmoyle, Cloonkeenbeg, Cormacuagh West, Newcastle, Templemoyle

Placenames

Shoodaun 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.