Shanakeal

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanakeal, from 50 m² to 3,371,318 m² (337.13 ha, 833.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Shanakeal 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.

• 23 Jan 2026Conditional

  Permission to construct a slatted unit for livestock including underground slurry tank, demolish the existing walled dungstead, construct a new walled dungstead and construct a kerbed silage base

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660042

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  full planning permission to renovate existing old farm house and to build a new porch to front and extension to rear and side of existing dwelling, Permission to decommission existing septic tank and install a new septic tank and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460993

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT SHED/WORKSHOP WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21440

• 5 Feb 2019Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, SHED AND SEPTIC TANK WITHIN REVISED BOUNDARIES

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 1998

• 1 Aug 2017Conditional

  (1) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE; (2) RETAIN THE ATTIC CONVERSION AS CONSTRUCTED

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17752

• 30 Jan 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SOLID FLOOR SHEEP HOUSE WITH PENNING

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 1761

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 Mish Mountains SAC 002185
• Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
• Special Protection Area: Castlemaine Harbour SPA 004029
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE037-072 Enclosure
  Description

  This record was listed in the SMR (1990) and the RMP (1997) as being in two townlands, Derrymore East and Shanakeal. However, this enclosure is in Shanakeal townland only (see 'Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey' report now included in SMR file for locational details). This is enclosure 'A' with trigonometrical station at its centre and described as a 'nearly circular stone built enclosure'. (SMR file).

• KE037-072001 Enclosure
  Description

  This is enclosure 'D' described by the 'Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey' (see report in SMR file) as a 'walled enclosure'. According to the report, a trackway (C) lies to the N and NW of this enclosure. It is described as a stone built track c. 1.4m wide and runs E of an enclosure (KE037-072----) for a distance of c. 26m then turns S for another 6m before disappearing. This enclosure (KE037-072001-) is located just to the SW of the turn in the track.

• KE037-072002 Enclosure
  Description

  This is enclosure 'E' described by the 'Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey' (see report in SMR file) as a 'circular stone enclosure'. The report also mentions a 'wall running N-S for a distance of 11m, 80cm wide and 50cm high.'

• KE037-072003 Enclosure
  Description

  This is enclosure 'F' described by the 'Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey' (see report now included in SMR file) as a 'rectangular enclosure'.

• KE037-072004 Enclosure
  Description

  This is enclosure 'G' described by the 'Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey' (see report now included in SMR file) as an 'oval enclosure'.

• KE037-072005 Enclosure
  Description

  This is enclosure 'H' described by the 'Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey' (see report now included in SMR file) as a 'small oval enclosure'.

• KE037-072006 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  This is 'B' described by the 'Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey' (see report now included in SMR file) as a 'mound of stones'.

• KE046-019 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• KE046-020 Enclosure
  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.

• KE046-033 Enclosure
  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 Shanakeal.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shanakeal.

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. 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 Shanakeal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Shanakeal

Area

5,027,895 m² (502.79 ha, 1,242.42 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgarrylander, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

Kilgarrylander, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilgarrylander electoral division: 694 people in 260 households; 90% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrymore East, Fybagh, Roscullen Island, Shanahill

Placenames

Shanakeal 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.