Shanakill
Townland in the civil parish of Tralee, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish An tSeanchill
- Area
- 20.2 ha
- 50 acres
- Land parcels
- 288
- registered freehold, median 192 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
288 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanakill, from 7 m² to 32,160 m² (3.22 ha, 7.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 318 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C1.1Commercial, Retail (Commercial, retail)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S1Education
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space, Park (Open space, park)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Mar 2026Conditional
to retain existing dwelling and sheds on site
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660187
10 May 2023Conditional
ERECT A PORTACABIN FOR USE AS CHANGING ROOMS TO SERVE THE ASTRO TURF PITCH, COMPLETE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23525
16 Apr 2021Conditional
BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AT SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALSO A NEW FRONT PORCH TO EXISTING DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21399
19 Feb 2021Conditional
BALLA IOMANAIOCHTA, SCONSA A BHAINEANN LEIS AGUS DROMCHLA UILE AIMSEARTHA A THOGAIL ( CONSTRUCT A HURLING WALL, ASSOCIATED FENCING AND ARTIFICAL TURF PLAYING SURFACE)
Permission · Kerry County Council, 21155
23 Dec 2020Conditional
1) ALTER AND EXTEND EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS, 2) TO WIDEN EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY TO ACCOMMODATE A SECOND VEHICLE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 201279
20 Dec 2019Conditional
CEAD PLEANALA A LORG O CHOMHAIRLE CONTAE CHIARRAI SINEADHIEIS AN SCOIL, CUIGSEOMRA RANGA GINEARAITA, CEITHRE SEOMRA TACAIOCHTA, AGUS SEOMRA FOLCTHA INROCHTANA, AON STOR A THOGAIL I DTEANNTA NA HOIBREACHA SUIOMHE A GHABHANN LEIS (PERMISSION OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING SCHOOL, COMPRISED OF FIVE CLASSROOMS, FOUR RESOURCE ROOMS, ACCESSIBLE TOILET, TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY CIRCULATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS)
Permission · Kerry County Council, 191324
28 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY SYSTEM BUILT RESOURCE CLASSROOM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. (SEOMRA REAMHDHEANTA AON STOR A THOGAIL I DHEANNTA NA HOIBREACHA SUIOMHE A GHABHANN LEIS)
Permission · Kerry County Council, 17608
6 Feb 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT 17 NO. DWELLING HOUSES, CONSISTING OF A 4 BLOCKS OF TERRACED HOUSES OF 6 NO. TWO BEDROOMS AND 11 NO. THREE BEDROOM DWELLINGS, CONNECT TO THE PUBLIC SEWER, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 17 homes · Kerry County Council, 1786
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 Shanakill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shanakill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shanakill.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_126 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Shanakill, Monavalley21 sales
- Shanakill, Tralee14 sales
The townland
- Name
- Shanakill · An tSeanchill
- Area
- 201,760 m² (20.18 ha, 49.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tralee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Tralee Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tralee Rural electoral division: 19,032 people in 7,091 households; 60% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Shanakill 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.