Shannakea More
Shannakea More is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfiddane, barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Seanachae Mór.
- Area
- 333.1 ha
- 823 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 14,707 m² (1.47 ha, 3.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shannakea More, from 150 m² to 288,718 m² (28.87 ha, 71.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Shannakea More 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Aug 2026N/a
to retain the following development a) to join the existing garage structure to the side and rear of the dwelling, b) the alteration of the former flat-roofed external storage area on the western side of the house, including the construction of a pitched roof over this area and its conversion to an internal bathroom, c) all associated minor external and internal works
Retention · Clare County Council, 2660568
12 Jun 2025Conditional
for the construction of a slatted cattle shed, incorporating an existing and a proposed slatted underground slurry storage tank, associated concrete yards and site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2560353
19 Jul 2023Conditional
to renovate and extend/change of use of existing agricultural store/shed to habitable structure, install waste water treatment system and percolation area plus all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23409
10 Nov 2022N/a
to renovate and extend / change of use of existing agricultural store/shed to habitable structure, install waste water treatment system and percolation area plus all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 221017
8 Sept 2021N/a
to build an underground slatted slurry storage tank and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21946
7 Dec 2018Conditional
to construct cattle house incorporating lie back area. Also RETENTION permission for cattle house. RETENTION permission for farm yard manure store. RETENTION permission for slatted tank for slurry storage, and all associated works on the land
Permission · Clare County Council, 181011
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Shannakea More.
Recorded monuments
- CL069-013 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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shannakea More.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Shannakea More, 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 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 Shannakea More.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Shannakea More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Shannakea More · Seanachae Mór
- Area
- 3,330,840 m² (333.08 ha, 823.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfiddane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Electoral division
- Rinealon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 207 people lived in 77 households in the Rinealon electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aillroe More, Cahiracon, Effernan, Erribul, Shannakea Beg
- Placenames
- Shannakea More 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.