Shanboolard
Shanboolard is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An tSeanbhuaile Ard.
- Area
- 115.3 ha
- 285 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanboolard. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Shanboolard 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
24 Oct 2024Refused
for the construction of a storey and a half detached dwelling, the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system, Ecoflo CoCo Filter and gravel distribution bed, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 252 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461415
21 Dec 2022Conditional
of existing farm cottage. Gross floor space of work to be retained 137.45sqm.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261289
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 Shanboolard.
Recorded monuments
- GA009-020 Hut site
Description
On E-facing slope in cutaway bog. A subcircular area (c. 4.5m) defined by a bank of large stones and earth (info. M. Gibbons). Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA022-076 Country house
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shanboolard.
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 Shanboolard, 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 Shanboolard.
- 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 Shanboolard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Shanboolard · An tSeanbhuaile Ard
- Area
- 1,152,952 m² (115.3 ha, 284.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballynahinch
- Electoral division
- Cleggan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 304 people lived in 112 households in the Cleggan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardkyle, Ballynew, Bundouglas, Cartron, Sheeauns
- Placenames
- Shanboolard 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.