# Shanakeever, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Omey, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish Seanadh Chiamhair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,048,801 m² (104.88 ha, 259.16 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 38,219 m² (3.82 ha, 9.44 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Omey, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/omey.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Clifden, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18138 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63796 - Centre: latitude 53.500529, longitude -10.010808 (WGS 84) ## 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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1987397: 316,711 m² (31.67 ha, 78.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987397.md - Parcel 2903287: 179,564 m² (17.96 ha, 44.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2903287.md - Parcel 1987398: 166,736 m² (16.67 ha, 41.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987398.md - Parcel 2903288: 88,935 m² (8.89 ha, 21.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2903288.md - Parcel 4994276: 54,533 m² (5.45 ha, 13.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4994276.md - Parcel 4994279: 42,536 m² (4.25 ha, 10.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4994279.md - Parcel 4837335: 33,902 m² (3.39 ha, 8.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4837335.md - Parcel 4994278: 15,234 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4994278.md - Parcel 4994287: 10,173 m² (1.02 ha, 2.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4994287.md - Parcel 4994286: 6,680 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4994286.md - Parcel 4994292: 5,223 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4994292.md - Parcel 2903286: 789 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2903286.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 15 May 2023, Galway County Council 2360510: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360510/0 - 6 Apr 2020, Galway County Council 20441: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20441/0 - 12 Dec 2019, Galway County Council 191924: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191924/0 - 19 Sept 2019, Galway County Council 191454: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191454/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Shanakeever. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shanakeever. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shanakeever. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_22.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/shanakeever.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/shanakeever.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/shanakeever.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Atticlogh: https://everytownland.com/galway/atticlogh.md - Clifden: https://everytownland.com/galway/clifden.md - Letterdeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/letterdeen.md - Letternoosh: https://everytownland.com/galway/letternoosh.md - Loughauna: https://everytownland.com/galway/loughauna.md - Tullyvoheen: https://everytownland.com/galway/tullyvoheen.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/shanakeever - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/shanakeever