# Shannow Upper, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballintemple, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 675,966 m² (67.6 ha, 167.03 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,389 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballintemple, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/ballintemple.md - Barony: Clanmahon - Electoral division: Derrin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 473 people lived in 156 households in the Derrin electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4864 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21817 - Centre: latitude 53.895064, longitude -7.374287 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shannow Upper, from 85 m² to 103,922 m² (10.39 ha, 25.68 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 457150: 103,922 m² (10.39 ha, 25.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/457150.md - Parcel 433484: 101,108 m² (10.11 ha, 24.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/433484.md - Parcel 458939: 76,106 m² (7.61 ha, 18.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/458939.md - Parcel 442398: 67,826 m² (6.78 ha, 16.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/442398.md - Parcel 484302: 41,596 m² (4.16 ha, 10.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/484302.md - Parcel 446322: 39,020 m² (3.9 ha, 9.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/446322.md - Parcel 468945: 35,207 m² (3.52 ha, 8.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/468945.md - Parcel 474536: 33,090 m² (3.31 ha, 8.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474536.md - Parcel 468722: 22,303 m² (2.23 ha, 5.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/468722.md - Parcel 475484: 19,440 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475484.md - Parcel 457480: 17,468 m² (1.75 ha, 4.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/457480.md - Parcel 446366: 17,115 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/446366.md - Parcel 4083084: 15,443 m² (1.54 ha, 3.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4083084.md - Parcel 459197: 14,543 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459197.md - Parcel 477101: 13,947 m² (1.39 ha, 3.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477101.md - Parcel 444404: 13,764 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/444404.md - Parcel 465685: 5,191 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/465685.md - Parcel 472152: 3,866 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472152.md - Parcel 478243: 3,794 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/478243.md - Parcel 472963: 3,506 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472963.md - Parcel 436730: 3,409 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436730.md - Parcel 480001: 3,369 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/480001.md - Parcel 456092: 3,138 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/456092.md - Parcel 2696560: 2,442 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2696560.md - Parcel 442145: 2,363 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/442145.md - Parcel 488690: 2,358 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488690.md - Parcel 487556: 2,302 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487556.md - Parcel 489595: 2,225 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/489595.md - Parcel 438523: 2,027 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/438523.md - Parcel 473639: 1,719 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/473639.md - Parcel 3061562: 1,576 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3061562.md - Parcel 475354: 1,553 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/475354.md - Parcel 443761: 1,351 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/443761.md - Parcel 468918: 841 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/468918.md - Parcel 468322: 730 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/468322.md - Parcel 476556: 483 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/476556.md - Parcel 447369: 337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/447369.md - Parcel 474112: 200 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/474112.md - Parcel 444371: 182 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/444371.md - Parcel 489282: 133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/489282.md - Parcel 445056: 100 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/445056.md - Parcel 470252: 85 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/470252.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Shannow Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 16 Dec 2025, Cavan County Council 2560737: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for alterations to previously granted Planning Ref. No. 643257 including Revised dwelling location, revised site entrance location, Internal & external dwelling alterations including additional floor area, revised site layout and site boundaries, and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560737/0 - 1 Jul 2022, Cavan County Council 22271: Refused. Permission. of the construction of a part two storey, part storey and a half style dwelling with a detached domestic garage, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, form new entrance gates and piers from the public road, together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22271/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Shannow Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shannow Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shannow Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Shannow Upper, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shannow Upper. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/shannow-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/shannow-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/shannow-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Shannow Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Derrin Lower: https://everytownland.com/cavan/derrin-lower.md - Drumakinneo: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumakinneo.md - Lisnananagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lisnananagh-21537.md - Shannow Lower: https://everytownland.com/cavan/shannow-lower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/shannow-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/shannow-upper