Shanbally

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanbally, from 21 m² to 2,891,593 m² (289.16 ha, 714.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Shanbally 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.

• 21 Sept 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661749

• 22 Jul 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR BEDROOM DWELLING, INCLUDING A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661351

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  CREATION OF A NEW ENTRANCE AND ACCESS LANE FOR DWELLING FOR WHICH PLANNING IS CURRENTLY BEING SOUGHT UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 24/60311 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460646

• 2 May 2024N/a

  CREATION OF A NEW ENTRANCE AND ACCESS LANE FOR DWELLING FOR WHICH PLANNING IS CURRENTLY BEING SOUGHT UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 24/60311 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460637

• 12 Mar 2024Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND GARAGE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, (2) RELOCATION OF EXISTING PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460311

• 8 Mar 2024N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND GARAGE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, (2) RELOCATION OF EXISTING PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460292

• 6 Feb 2024N/a

  (A) ERECTION OF SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND GARAGE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND (B) RELOCATION OF EXISTING PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460093

• 2 Feb 2022Conditional

  TEACH CÓNAITHE ÚR, GARÁIST SCOITE TÍ, DABHACH SÉARACHAIS/CÓRAS CÓIREÁLA SÉARACHAIS A THÓGÁIL, CHOMH MAITH LE HOIBREACHA FORBARTHA GAOLMHARA DO TSUÍOMH

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250128

• 23 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH TREATMENT PLANT & POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851123

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slieve League SAC 000189
• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve League 000189

Recorded monuments

• DG090-004003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Hugh MacBrick's Church (DG090-004001-): Situated at the edge of a narrow ridge of Slieve League. Some 3m SW of the church are the collapsed remains of a beehive structure (DG090-004002-), partly built into the slope of the mountain; the entrance is on the E. Three 'Holy Wells' (DG090-004003-; DG090-004005-; DG090-004006-) are noted on the OS 6-inch map near the church. Approximately 20m N of the church is a cross-inscribed pillar stone (DG090-004004-) rising from a possible leacht (DG090-004008-) located immediately to the W of a holy well (DG090-004006-). This holy well (DG090-004003-) is 34m to the SE and a second holy well (DG090-004005-) is 13m to the N of it. This holy well consists of a natural spring well enclosed by a dry stone surround with a roughly shaped standing stone marking the site of the holy well. Approximately 26 cairns (penitential stations), three of which may be the remains of hut sites, are strung along both edges of the narrow ridge of Slieve League. (Ó Muirgheasa, Nos. 27 and 28.) Described by O'Muirgheasa as 'The Holy Well of Hugh Mac Bric near the summit of Sliabh Liag. The 10th November, the Saint's festival, was an unsuitable season for the performance of a pilgrimage on an exposed mountain, and may partially account for its decay. Hugh, who was a bishop, died in 588, and is said to be buried along with Bishop Assicus of Elphin, at Racoo, near Ballintra. A note in the Martyrology of Donegal gives his descent - Aodh the son of Bric, the son of Cormac, the son of Cremthann, the son of Fiacha, was born in Cillair of Meath' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 149). In September 1909 over 2,000 people led by the local clergy solemnly performed the turas, and a local poet celebrated the event in an Irish poem which he published in the Derry Journal ' ( Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 149, 247). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 27) National Monument No. 139 (1) The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload/revision: 06 January 2012

• DG090-011001 Penitential station
  Description

  Situated in the foothills of Slieve League on the SE facing slope of rising ground 635m SSE of Hugh Mac Brick's Church (DG090-004001-) are the remains of two penitential cairns (DG090-011002-) which mark the starting point of the turas to Hugh Mac Brick's Church (pers comm Gene Curran). One of these stone cairns (H 1.2m; base dims 1.75m x 2.75m) has a rectangular shaped dry stone wall base on top of which the cairn was constructed. A second cairn (DG090-011002-) is located 2m to the SE. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 05 July 2010

• DG090-011002 Penitential station
  Description

  Situated in the foothills of Slieve League on the SE facing slope of rising ground 635m SSE of Hugh Mac Brick's Church (DG090-004001-) are the remains of two penitential cairns (DG090-011001-) which mark the starting point of the turas to Hugh Mac Brick's Church (pers comm Gene Curran). One of these stone cairns (H 1.9m; base diam. 2.5m) appears to have been built on the remains of an earlier hut site the internal wall facing of which is still visible. A second cairn (DG090-011001-) is located 2m to the W. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 05 July 2010

• DG096-033 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on NE facing slope of rising ground in upland are with Aghragh Stream immediately to the S. Possible hut site indicated by three contiguous orthostats (avg. H 0.8m; Wth 0.45m) at NW and a single orthostat at SE with an earthen bank at W defining a roughly rectangular sunken area (1.9m x 1.7m) which may represent the remains of a possible hut site.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shanbally, about 1 in 20 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 Shanbally.

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 Shanbally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Shanbally · An Seanbhaile

Area

3,393,375 m² (339.34 ha, 838.52 acres)

Civil parish

Glencolumbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

West Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

732 people lived in 273 households in the West Donegal electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghragh, Ballymore, Cappagh, Lergadaghtan, Lergadaghtan Mountain

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Shanbally 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.