Lydacan

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lydacan, from 439 m² to 124,592 m² (12.46 ha, 30.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Lydacan 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.

• 24 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a proposed solar farm development consisting of: linear arrays of solar PV panels on ground mounted steel supported structures with associated cabling and ducting; 12 no. proposed single storey MV stations; 1 no. Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) installation (including 32 no. containers with cells and 8no. Power Conversion System (PCS) MV Stations) with associated security fencing and gates; Site perimeter fencing; 4 no. new permanent site entrances, 1 no. new temporary site entrance, 1 no. upgrade to an existing site entrance; Security gates at all permanent and temporary access points; Site access tracks including passing and turning bays; 3 no. temporary construction compound/carpark/material storage areas with associated temporary site offices, parking areas and security fencing; 6 no. steel storage containers; 6 no. turning bays; On-site pole mounted CCTV cameras; 3 no. temporary construction stage Moby Dick type wheel wash systems; 3 no. concrete wash out locations (one within each temporary construction compound); and, all associated and ancillary works. The proposed solar farm development spans a total site area measuring 86.3ha. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years with an operational period of 40 years. The export capacity to the grid is estimated to be up to 70 MW. The development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413). The planning application is subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report (AASR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared for this development and submitted with this planning application. A separate application to obtain permission for a 110kV grid connection and 110kV substation to facilitate the export of power from the solar farm, will be submitted to An Coimisiún Pleanála. The planning application including the AASR and NIS

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561380

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system, percolation area & for all ancillary services & site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360860

• 19 May 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 205.2 sqm (dwelling house) and 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260505

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage, on site wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 224 sqm, Garage: 44 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212143

• 12 Jul 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary service and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works is; House 145 sqm & Garage 50.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211264

• 20 May 2020Conditional

  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; 183sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20610

• 27 Jan 2020Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage, on site waste water treatment/percolation & all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 197.5 sq.m, Garage - 60 sq.m.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2087

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: Coole-Garryland Complex SAC 000252
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coole-Garryland Complex 000252

Recorded monuments

• GA113-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. This poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 30m) is defined by a bank (Wth 2m; H 0.4m) that is overlain by a later field wall from E through S to W. Only slight traces of the bank are visible at N. A souterrain (GA113-103001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2018

• GA113-103001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (GA113-103----). Named 'Caves' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and 'Cave' on the 1922 edition. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2018

• GA113-163 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in rough pastureland, c. 40m to the NNW of a rath (GA113-163----). When initially visited by the Survey in October 1982, this children's burial ground consisted of a raised rectangular area (c. 30m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) which was defined by a low earthen bank. It contained a number of irregularly set plain stone slabs. In the SW quadrant larger slabs formed a neat square structure (L/Wth 1.5m; H 0.95m). On a revisit in June 1992 the site was totally obscured by impenetrable thorn and briar cover. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• GA113-164 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. This very well-preserved, but tree-covered, subcircular rath (int. dims. 29m E-W; 27.6m N-S) is defined by a massive flat-topped bank (max. Wth 7.5-9.5m; int. H 1.7-2.1m; ext. H 3-3.7m) and external fosse (Wth 4.5-7.4m; D 1.6-1.8m). There is a stone-lined causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.2m) at E. A souterrain (GA113-164001-), possible house site (GA113-164002-) and 19th-C burial vault are visible in the SW quadrant of the interior. A children's burial ground (GA113-163----) lies c. 35m to the N and some 80m to the SW there is a bullaun stone (GA113-166001-). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2018

• GA113-164001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the SW quadrant of a rath (GA113-164----). This largely collapsed drystone-built souterrain (L >16.8m) is L-shaped in plan. The long axis (L 7.8m) runs NNE-SSW. Access is gained roughly midway along it where a roof lintel has collapsed. Only the NNE end of the chamber (L 4.3m; Wth 1.35m; H 1.35m) survives intact. A partly blocked recess or creep is visible in the E side-wall. To the SSW of the access point the line of the souterrain is traceable as a linear depression for a further 3.5m. At this point the depression turns sharply to the SW and continues for a further 5.5m. At its W end there is a 19th-century burial vault (L 3m), which appears to have been built on the line of the souterrain. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2018

• GA113-164002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the SW quadrant of a rath (GA113-064----). This possible rectangular house site (11.9m E-W; 6.3m N-S) is defined by collapsed walling (Wth 0.8m; H 0.2m) along the W, E and N sides. The S wall foundations are very indistinct. It lies c. 1.5m to the S of a souterrain (GA113-064001-) and a 19th-century burial vault. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2018

• GA113-165 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In a low-lying area of outcropping limestone with a good deal of thorn tree and scrub cover; the area immediately to the SW is subject to flooding. In 1574 it is recorded that this rectangular four-storey high tower house (13.3m E-W; 10.7m N-S), with a cap house at the SW corner, was in the possession of ‘Owen Mantagh Oheyne’ (Nolan 1901, 114). It is constructed of roughly dressed and coursed limestone blocks and well-dressed quoinstones. There is a slight base-batter. Access is gained through the round-headed doorway in the W wall. This leads to a lobby with an overhead murder-hole. The guardroom is to the N, the spiral stairs to the S and the main ground-floor chamber to the E. The latter is floored with rough cobbles. A stone vault exits between this floor and the first floor. The rest of the floors were wooden and corbels in the N and S walls indicate their levels on the 2nd and 3rd floors. The first and second floors comprise one main chamber with a subsidiary chamber, running N-S, along the W side of the tower. There is just one large chamber on the third floor, which could only be viewed from the stairwell. A partially destroyed E gable wall is set inside the tower wall suggesting the presence of a wall-walk. The cap house is inaccessible. An intramural chamber at the W end of the main first-floor chamber leads to a garderobe. Just one large plain fireplace was noted in the N wall on the first floor. Windows comprise rectangular and ogee-headed twin lights, narrow rectangular and single ogee lights, slit lights and a cross-cut loop on the ground floor of the spiral staircase. Projecting corbels visible at the top of each wall-face would have supported machiolations. An unusual feature of the N wall is the lack of windows in its E half. Near the ground level of this wall the scar of a roof line is visible, indicating that a building was subsequently constructed against it, however, no trace of it survives. A possible bawn (GA113-165002-) is also associated. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 29 November 2018

• GA113-165002 Bawn
  Description

  Associated with the tower house (GA113-165----). A series of grassed-over walls (av. H 0.8-0.9m; Wth 2-2.5m) extending from, but not bonded to, the N wall of the tower may be the last vestiges of a bawn (c. 55m N-S; c. 40m E-W). Traces of an internal dividing wall, running E-W, are visible. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 29 November 2018

• GA113-166001 Bullaun stone
  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.

• GA113-166002 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. An oval flat-topped earthen mound (9m NW-SE; 8m NE-SW; H 0.85m), in fair condition, is clipped by a N-S running field wall at W. Rynne (SMR file) suggests that it may possibly be a barrow. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 30 July 2019

• GA113-200 Fulacht fia
  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 Lydacan.

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 Lydacan, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_724 (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 Lydacan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Lydacan · An Laighdeacán

Area

862,548 m² (86.25 ha, 213.14 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Cahermore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

620 people lived in 198 households in the Cahermore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaquiff North, Crannagh, Pollataggle, Polldonoghoe, Raheen Demesne, Raheen Kilkelly, Shessy North, Shessy South

Placenames

Lydacan 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.