Shehy More

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shehy More, from 805 m² to 1,026,294 m² (102.63 ha, 253.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Shehy 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.

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  10 year permission for proposed development consisting of: (1) A 110kV electricity substation including 2 no. control buildings associated electrical plant and equipment, underground electricity cabling, fencing, alterations to a previously permitted borrow pit and temporary construction compound at the Carrigarierk Wind Farm (An Bord Pleanala Ref. PL04.246353, Cork County Council Ref. 15/730) in the townland of Carrigdangan; (2) 110kV underground electricity cabling connecting the proposed substation to the existing Dunmanway ESB substation in the townlands of Carrigdangan, Inchincurka, Kilnadur, Aultaghreagh, Aultagh, Ardcahan, Knockduff, Gurteennasowna and Ballyhalwick; (3) 33kV underground electricity cabling connecting the proposed substation to the permitted Carrigarierk Wind Farm through the townlands of Carrigdangan and Gortatanavally and the permitted Shehy More Wind Farm (ABP Ref. PL04.243486; Cork County Council Ref. 13/551), through the townlands of Shehy More, Coolcaum, Coolmountain, Tullagh, Lackabaun, Clogher, Farrannahineeny, Crushterra, Gurteen and Carrigdangan. Together with all ancillary works and apparatus. The proposed development is located north of Dunmanway, Co. Cork. This application is accompanied by An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/431

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 Shehy More.

Recorded monuments

• CO093-088 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough hill grazing, on bog, in a sheltered hollow on the N-facing slopes of Shehy More. A roughly rectangular area (7.6m N-S; 4m E-W) is enclosed by a roughly built, partially collapsed, drystone wall (T 0.8m; max. H 1.1m). The entrance is unclear due to collapse. Rushes obscure the level interior. A hut site (CO093-089----) lies c. 100m to the NW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO093-089 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill grazing, on bog, on a terrace on the N-facing slopes of Shehy More. The remains of a D-shaped hut site (2.5m N-S) with a straight S side (L 2.6m) are defined by the jumbled lower courses of a drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.8m). The stone wall protrudes above the surface of the bog. The straight S side is cut (D 0.7m) into the upslope at the S. Loose stones are scattered in the E-sloping interior. There is an entrance (Wth 0.6m) at the E. An enclosure (CO093-088----) lies c. 100m to the SE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO093-110 Enclosure
  Description

  Partial remains of a large enclosure in rough grazing just to the east of cleared fields and to the west of semi mature forestry. It is situated on a level area on a north facing slope with a stream running to the east at its base. The valley rises to the west and the summit of Shehy Mountain. The enclosure would have been roughly circular in plan but the eastern half has been cleared probably during the making of the field adjacent to it. It has a N-S D of 24m. The enclosing wall is made of single stones with a maximum H of 0.9m. Complide by: Tony Miller Date of upload: 2 March 2016

Architectural heritage

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

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Shehy 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 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 Shehy 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.

No address of the register names Shehy More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Shehy More · Seithe Mhór

Area

2,619,820 m² (261.98 ha, 647.37 acres)

Civil parish

Inchigeelagh, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Garrown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

311 people lived in 107 households in the Garrown electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghboola, Coolcaum, Coolmountain, Cornery, Garryantornora, Moneylea, Shehy Beg, Tooreenalour

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Shehy 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.