Seeaghanbaun

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Seeaghanbaun, from 1,581 m² to 119,965 m² (12 ha, 29.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Seeaghanbaun 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Seeaghanbaun in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Seeaghanbaun.

Recorded monuments

• MA021-034 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• MA021-035001 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (MA021-035002-) which is named 'Kilfian' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. No visible remains. The church is not indicated on the OS 6-inch maps; it appears that all trace was gone by the early 1800’s when O’Donovan recorded that the church ‘has been demolished.’ (OS Letters 1838, vol. 1, 275). The placename ‘Kilfian’, and the presence of a cross-slab (MA021-035003-) in the graveyard indicate the possibility that a church of early medieval date existed here. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 May 2016

• MA021-035002 Graveyard
  Description

  In undulating grassland, located on a low elevation, with a gradual fall of ground for 100m to S to the banks of the Rathroe River, which marks the townland boundary. Overlooked to W by rising ground. This graveyard is named ‘Kilfian’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, and is indicated as a polygonal enclosed area (c. 30m NNW–SSE; c. 40m ENE-WSW), accessed at the NW corner by a N-S road. Its depiction on the 1923 edition, where it is named ‘Kilfian Burial Gd.’, indicates that the graveyard was extended to N, doubling in length to a roughly rectangular area, and a further extension to N took place in the latter half of the 20th century. The oldest part of the graveyard, in the S part of its current extent, occupies slightly elevated ground and is grass-covered. It is enclosed at E, S and W by a mortared stone wall capped with concrete. The original access road is preserved in the line of a grassed-over path incorporated into the W side of the 20th-century extension. The old graveyard is distinguished by a concentration of mid-to-late 18th- and early 19th-century graveslabs and 19th-century headstones, some standing at the head of rectangular plots outlined by a low concrete kerb. The earliest inscription noted is on a graveslab dated 1762. Interspersed amongst the formal headstones and graveslabs, are many informal gravemarkers consisting of low, roughly rectangular or irregular-shaped uninscribed stones, set in N−S rows, many barely protruding above the grass. There is no visible trace of a church (MA021-035001-). There is a cross-slab (MA021-035003-) in the E half of the old graveyard. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 May 2016

• MA021-035003 Cross-slab
  Description

  In a graveyard (MA021-035002-) named ‘Kilfian’ on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, located in the oldest part, at the S end of a walled 20th-century extension. A pillar-like sandstone block (L at least 0.62m; Wth 0.18m; T 0.08-0.1m), rectangular in cross-section, set upright in the ground, with a narrow-limbed Latin cross (L at least 0.44m) inscribed in false relief on the W face. The top of the cross is 0.07m below the top of the stone; the base is not visible as it is concealed below ground. The arms (H 0.03m) extend the full width of the stone. The cross is outlined by a shallow groove (Wth 0.01-0.015m) which expands to four roughly circular ‘armpits’ or depressions (diam. 0.04m) flanking the intersection of the vertical and horizontal members, giving the effect of a ringed-cross. At the centre of the intersection, there is a shallow circular dimple or depression (diam. 0.02m). The portion of the shaft (L 0.14m) which rises above the arms is embellished with a slightly hollowed centre, and widens gradually along its length to an expanded terminal. The portion of the shaft (L at least 0.25m) which extends below the arms is plain, and retains a uniform width (0.02m). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 May 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Seeaghanbaun, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Seeaghanbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Seeaghanbaun · An Suíochán Bán

Area

440,670 m² (44.07 ha, 108.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfian, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Kilfian East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

242 people lived in 89 households in the Kilfian East electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinagavna, Barranarran Lower, Barranarran Upper, Cartronrathroe, Cloonaleedin, Cloonskeagh, Kinnavally, Seeaghandoo

Placenames

Seeaghanbaun 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.