Shannera Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Killorglin, barony of Dunkerron North, Co. Kerry; in Irish Seanairí Íochtarach
- Area
- 334 ha
- 825 acres
- Land parcels
- 97
- registered freehold, median 2,602 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shannera Lower, from 58 m² to 381,621 m² (38.16 ha, 94.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
No zone of a development plan covers Shannera Lower 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
26 Aug 2026N/a
Re: Full planning permission to (A) construct new dwelling house (B) construct new wastewater treatment system along with all ancillary site services located at Shannera Lower, Beaufort, Co. Kerry.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660809
30 Apr 2026Conditional
Planning permission to (a) demolish single storey annex to the front of the dwelling and a part of the existing dwelling house to the southern side, (b) construct extensions to the, front, rear and side of the existing dwelling, (c) renovate the existing dwelling and allow for elevational changes (d) decommission the existing on site wastewater treatment system and install a mechanical treatment unit and polishing filter (e) all ancillary site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660375
11 Aug 2023Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23903
15 Aug 2022N/a
RETAIN HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention · Kerry County Council, 22858
1 Apr 2021Conditional
INSTALL A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND DECOMMISSION EXISTING FOUL WATER SOAK-AWAY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21342
3 Jul 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE C/W SEPTIC TANK AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20584
14 Jun 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE C/W SEPTIC TANK AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18581
11 May 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE C/W SEPTIC TANK AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18442
11 May 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE C/W SEPTIC TANK AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18445
12 Mar 2018Conditional
RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18224
7 Mar 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT AN AGRICULTURAL ANIMAL HOUSE AND MANURE SLAB AND ASSOCIATED WORKS ON HIS LANDS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 18193
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
- Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365
Recorded monuments
- KE065-023 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diam. 30.5m N-S, 28.5m E-W Listoorlea/Lios Tuair Léith: This circular univallate rath is situated on a small rise and affords broad views E and S to Macgillycuddy's Reeks. The enclosing bank of earth and stone has been levelled in the site's SE sector, probably due to the construction of an adjacent roadway. It survives best at NE, where it reaches a maximum external height of 2m. Elsewhere it averages 1.75m in height and 1.65m in basal width. It falls on average .6m to the raised level interior. Faint traces of an outer fosse, 1.8m wide, survive from N to NE. The original entrance may have been located in the levelled SE sector. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 546. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013
- KE065-023001 Souterrain
Description
In a rath (KE065-023----). According to local information, there is a souterrain in this rath but access to it was 'closed up'. There are no visible remains of this possible souterrain. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011
- KE065-024 Standing stone
Description
This standing stone is partly incorporated into a wall which forms the boundary of a vegetable garden. Knockbrack rises steeply to S. The large stone is rectangular in elevation and stands 2.1m high. It measures 1m by at least 1.2m at base, and inclines heavily towards N; E-W. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 206. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013
- KE065-031 Enclosure
Description
No visible trace survives of the small enclosure shown on the first edition of the OS map at this location. It was located on the top of a low hill, a short distance W of the Finglas river. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 838. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shannera Lower.
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 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_82 (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
No address of the register names Shannera Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Shannera Lower · Seanairí Íochtarach
- Area
- 3,340,353 m² (334.04 ha, 825.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killorglin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkerron North
- Electoral division
- Maum, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Maum electoral division: 265 people in 106 households; 90% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh, Glancuttaun Lower, Glancuttaun Upper, Kilcoolaght East, Kilcoolaght West, Parkalassa, Shannera Upper
- Placenames
- Shannera Lower 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.