Shankill

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shankill, from 280 m² to 263,023 m² (26.3 ha, 64.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Shankill 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 Apr 2026Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660611

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561918

• 20 Jun 2023Conditional

  to construct a new dwellinghouse with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage & all associates site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360675

• 10 May 2023N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360481

• 22 Jul 2021Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 300.05 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211337

• 25 May 2017Conditional

  of an existing 36m high telecommunications support structure (previously granted permission under reference 11/1058 which was a temporary permission for a period of 5 years which has expired) carrying antennas and link dishes together with associated equipment unit & security fencing.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 17743

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 Shankill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shankill.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0.

No address of the register names Shankill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Shankill · An tSeanchoill

Area

2,148,528 m² (214.85 ha, 530.91 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Mount Bellew, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mount Bellew electoral division: 1,972 people in 701 households; 80% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymageraghty, Cloonreleagh (bellew), Corgerry Eighter, Doonwood, Meelick, Mountbellew Demesne

Placenames

Shankill 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.