Shanakill
Townland in the civil parish of Aghinagh, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish An tSeanchoill
- Area
- 189.2 ha
- 467 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 4,840 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 23
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanakill, from 118 m² to 491,602 m² (49.16 ha, 121.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 28 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Sept 2022Conditional
Permission for a) demolition of existing open slurry tank & b) slatted cattle shed (with underground tanks) and ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5994
3 Jul 2019Conditional
Retention of existing domestic garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5697
30 Dec 2015Conditional
Construction of slatted house and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/7013
6 Aug 2015Unconditional
Agricultural storage shed & associated site works – Extension of duration of permission granted under planning Ref: 10/6074
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 15/5747
24 Aug 2010Conditional
Alterations to permission granted under Pl. Reg. No. 08/9995 to consist of repositioning of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6108
18 Aug 2010Conditional
Agricultural storage shed and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6074
28 Jul 2010Incompleted application
Storage shed & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5913
26 Jul 2010Incompleted application
Reposition of dwellinghouse and septic tank as previously granted under planning permission reg. no. 08/9995
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5872
5 Dec 2008Conditional
Two-storey dwellinghouse, septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9995
7 Nov 2008Incompleted application
Two-storey dwellinghouse, well, septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9602
11 Sept 2008Conditional
Construction of storage/machinery shed and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8850
14 Apr 2008Conditional
Change of finished floor level of dwellinghouse permitted under planning reg. no. 07/4259
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6013
25 Mar 2008Incompleted application
Change of finished floor level of dwelling permitted under Reg. No. 07/4259
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5607
18 Jan 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse (change of plan)
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4259
12 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Construction of cubicle house with slatted concrete tanks under and construction of uncovered concrete slatted tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4147
22 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of lean-to extension to cubicle houses/silage shed to consist of new slatted unit with slurry holding tank, infilling of existing external slurry holding tank, conversion of silage shed to cubicle house, new silage slab and apron, new external underground slurry holding tank, soiled water tank and clean concrete yards
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13748
20 Sept 2006Conditional
Construction of cattle underpass under public road
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10750
25 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6619
13 Jul 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4999
20 Jan 2005Conditional
Milking parlour, dairy handling facilities and associated effluent tanks
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/212
8 Apr 2004Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2358
9 Jun 2003Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2787
11 Apr 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1710
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 Shanakill.
Recorded monuments
- CO060-105 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by low, eroded earthen bank, topped in parts by field clearance stones. Hartnett (1939, 105) recorded 'a dry stone wall on the original rampart'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-022001 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 36m) enclosed by partially grass-covered collapsed wall (max. ext. H 0.7m; T 7m). Wall mainly collapsed outwards especially on downslope (S); inner face (H 0.8m) remains intact to E for c. 7m with ledge (Wth 0.28m) surviving 0.4m above ground level. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hillslope; small grass-covered mounds of dumped stones and loose stones scattered across surface. Standing stone (CO071-022002-) inside wall to SW. Ringfort (CO071-023---) in same field c. 70m to SE. Standing stone (CO071-024----) c. 150m to ENE. Surrounding field fences removed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-022002 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Within SE quadrant of levelled cashel (CO071-022001-). Stone (H 0.9m; 1m x 0.3m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis WNW-ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-022003 Hut site
Description
In reclaimed pasture. No visible surface trace of features which Hartnett (PJH) described as 'the foundations of hut sites....one, which is fairly definite, is oblong in ground plan 15ft by 6ft....only a few inches of the foundations remain....there are others but it would be well nigh impossible without clearing the site of loose stones etc., to attempt to plan them'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-023 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Roughly circular area (diam. 37.5m) defined by earthen bank (H 1m) with traces of shallow external fosse. Surrounding field fences removed and material dumped in interior. Hartnett (1939, 105-6) recorded an outer rampart surviving to N, circular cell in bank to NW and rectangular cell in bank to E, said locally to have been remains of limekilns but no evidence of burning was noted. No visible surface trace of cell-like features noted. Standing stone (CO071-022002-) and levelled cashel (CO071-022001-) in same field to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-024 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Stone (H 0.9m; 1.6m x 0.33m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis WNW-ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-025 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Shown as single standing stone on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Removed; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO071-026 Fulacht fia
Description
In boggy ground, on S side of stream. Shown on 1938 OS 6-inch map as mound. Area inaccessible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shanakill.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shanakill.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Shanakill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Shanakill · An tSeanchoill
- Area
- 1,891,708 m² (189.17 ha, 467.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghinagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Aghinagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghinagh electoral division: 518 people in 168 households; 90% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughinida, Bealick, Coolaniddane, Derryroe, Dromduff, Kill, Knockeenacuttin, Ummera
- Placenames
- Shanakill 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.