Shanakill Upper

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanakill Upper, from 173 m² to 237,852 m² (23.79 ha, 58.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Shanakill Upper 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 Dec 2009Conditional

  Construction of single storey dwelling, garage, site entrance and domestic effluent treatment and disposal system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7792

• 18 Apr 2007Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7099

• 4 Aug 2005Withdrawn

  Construction of dwelling, detached garage, entrance and all ancillary site works and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5579

• 20 Dec 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse, garage and treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9429

• 2 May 2003Conditional

  Extensions to dwelling and detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2106

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 Shanakill Upper.

Recorded monuments

• CO046-017001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on terrace of level ground facing W onto Shanakill river. Circular area (35.2m SSE-NNW) defined by inner bank (H 2m), earthen but topped with large stones; well-preserved V-shaped intervening fosse; earthen outer bank (ext. H c. 1.3m); outer fosse (D 0.5m) SE->W. Gap in banks to SE, with causeway. Outer bank incorporated into field fence W->E. Banks, outer fosse and part of interior overgrown. Interior level; possible souterrain (CO046-01702-) inside bank to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO046-017002 Souterrain
  Description

  In NE quadrant of ringfort (CO046-017001-). Semicircular depression (L7.5m; Wth 1m; D 0.75m) containing several flat sandstone blocks resembling capstones. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Upper.

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 Shanakill Upper, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Shanakill Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Shanakill Upper · An tSeanchoill Uachtarach

Area

996,301 m² (99.63 ha, 246.19 acres)

Civil parish

Mogeely, and its townlands

Barony

Kinatalloon

Electoral division

Curraglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

429 people lived in 144 households in the Curraglass electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycullane, Curraheen, Longueville North, Longueville South, Mogeely Lower, Mogeely Upper, Shanakill Lower

Placenames

Shanakill Upper 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.