Sessuecommon

117 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sessuecommon, from 315 m² to 322,907 m² (32.29 ha, 79.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 56 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 Sessuecommon 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.

• 1 Sept 2025Conditional

  The demolition of an existing rear extension to an existing dwelling, the construction of a new two storey extension to the rear of an existing dwelling and construction of a new site entrance with all associated ancillary works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560365

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: Ox Mountains Bogs SAC 002006
• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ox Mountains Bogs 002006

Recorded monuments

• SL031-018001 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In a coniferous plantation, on the S slopes of the Ox Mountains and c. 50m W of a stream. An oval earthen mound (7m N-S; 8.1m E-W; H 1m) with a central rectangular hollow (2.2m N-S; 4m E-W), the sides of which are revetted by drystone-walling. A few trees have been planted on the mound. There is a rath (SL031-018002-) immediately to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL031-018002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a coniferous plantation, on the S slopes of the Ox Mountains; the ground slopes down steeply to E and S. A circular area (23.5m N-S; 22.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.2m) which is revetted on the inner face by a drystone wall. An external flat-bottomed dry fosse (Wth 5.4m) with a counterscarp bank (Wth 1.5m; ext. H 0.4m) is evident SSW-NW. There is a flat terrace (Wth 4m; H 1.1m) along the external side of the bank E-SSW. The interior slopes gently down to S and is planted with trees and crossed by a recently dug forest drain. Another forest drain lies immediately to N and trees have also been planted in the fosse. A mound barrow (SL031-018001-) lies immediately to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL031-033 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  On a platform of rocky pasture on a S-facing slope above the basin of the River Moy. The tomb is in a low mound of irregular outline (17m E-W; 8.5m N-S). A large rock at the E end of the mound seems to be an outcrop. An orthostat at the E end of the structure formed part of the S side of the entrance passage to the remains of a full court (L c. 6.5m) six stones of the N arm of which remain, one at the outer and five at the inner end. Two jambs mark the entrance to a chamber (L 3.8m; Wth 1.7m at its inner end) represented by three sidestones to the N and one to the S. There is a buttress-stone outside the inner of the three stones at the N and another outside the southern example. A pair of segmenting jambs at the inner end of the extant chamber shows that further gallery structure has been lost. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 59-60, no. 95) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL031-034 Souterrain
  Description

  On flat ground, on the S slopes of the Ox Mountains and adjacent to rock outcrop. An opening (Wth 2m) leads to a silted-up and water-filled chamber (long axis E-W) roofed with lintels. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL031-047 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, encompassing a low rise; marsh and bog lie to SW, S and E. A raised D-shaped area (dims. c. 60m NE-SW) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; ext. H 0.5m) N-ESE and by a slight scarp along the straight SW side (L c. 70m NW-SE). A flat-bottomed external fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.4m) is evident NW-SE. The interior slopes down gently in all directions from the centre. Foundations of a drystone wall (Wth 1.2m; L 12.2m NE-SW) with a gap (Wth 3m), were noted in the N half of the interior with an earthen bank (L 11m; Wth 2m) extending to SE from its SW end. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (diam. c. 100m NE-SW; c. 80m NW-SE) with trees inside the perimeter. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Sessuecommon, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Sessuecommon, Cloonacool5 sales

Name

Sessuecommon · Seiseadh Uí Chomáin

Area

5,306,115 m² (530.61 ha, 1,311.17 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Glendarragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

234 people lived in 78 households in the Glendarragh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corsallagh, Drimina, Sessuegarry, Tullycusheen Beg, Tullycusheen More, Tullyvellia

Placenames

Sessuecommon 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.