Shanakeever
Shanakeever is a townland in the civil parish of Omey, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Seanadh Chiamhair.
- Area
- 104.9 ha
- 259 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 38,219 m² (3.82 ha, 9.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanakeever, from 789 m² to 316,711 m² (31.67 ha, 78.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Shanakeever 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
15 May 2023Conditional
For development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360510
6 Apr 2020Conditional
for new covered tent preparation area and storage shed as well as all ancillary site works: Gross floor space of proposed works: 200.43 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 20441
12 Dec 2019Conditional
for (1) of existing vehicular site entrance and existing farm access road (2) Retention of existing farm storage shed (3) Retention of small area of reclaimed land (4) Permission for new forest access road as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained; Agricultural Shed - 70.00 sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191924
19 Sept 2019N/a
of (1) existing vehicular site entrance and existing farm access road (2) Retention of existing farm storage shed (3) Retention of small area of reclaimed land (4) Permission for new forest access road as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 70.00 sqm
Retention · Galway County Council, 191454
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 Shanakeever.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shanakeever.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shanakeever.
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 Shanakeever, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_22 (ZIP).
- 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 Shanakeever with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Shanakeever · Seanadh Chiamhair
- Area
- 1,048,801 m² (104.88 ha, 259.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Omey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballynahinch
- Electoral division
- Clifden, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,059 people lived in 796 households in the Clifden electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Atticlogh, Clifden, Letterdeen, Letternoosh, Loughauna, Tullyvoheen
- Placenames
- Shanakeever 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.