Shannera Upper

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shannera Upper, from 120 m² to 140,806 m² (14.08 ha, 34.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Shannera Upper 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.

• 2 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE ( 253sq.m floor area) AND DETACHED GARAGE / HOME OFFICE (40sq.m floor area), C/W MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT (TRICEL NOVO TREATEMENT UNIT AND TRICEL TERO MODULE) WITH 90.25sq.m POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 25243

• 2 May 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE C/W MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT (TRICEL NOVO TREATMENT UNIT AND TRICEL TERO MODULE) WITH A 90.25 SQ.M POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 25111

• 11 Aug 2020Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING AND TO CONSTRUCT A REPLACEMENT DWELLING. ALSO FOR PERMISSION TO DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20714

• 31 Jan 2020Conditional

  (A) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND SIDE ALONG WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE EXISTING HOUSE (B) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN AND COMPLETE THE REAR EXTENSION (C) RETENTION OF EXISTING RETAINING WALL TO SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING DWLLING HOUSE (D) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2073

• 2 Dec 2019N/a

  (A) CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND SIDE ALONG WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND (B) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 191221

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: 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

• KE065-083 Enclosure
  Description

  This impressive site occupies the E end of a ridge which runs along the N side of a stretch of the Finglas river. It consists of a platform, suboval in plan, enclosed by a series of earthen banks and internal fosses which are traversed by a causeway at NNW. The apparently featureless platform slopes down gently to E, and measures 35m N-S x 51m E-W. It is raised up to 2m above the site's external ground level at W, while at E the external ground level slopes away sharply. A good deal of the enclosure's S side has been eroded away by a high meander scarp of the river. Traces of a low bank and internal fosse skirt the edge of this scarp at S and SE; the fosse is .6m deep and 2m in average width, while the 1.5m wide bank rises to a height of .7m from the base of the fosse. Both of these features appear to be relatively modern. The platform is defined by a deep, wide, flat-bottomed fosse which is traversed by a modern trackway at E. This fosse, which is rather overgrown in places, varies in basal width from 2.5m up to 5m, and is on average 3m deep below the level of the platform. From SW through to NE there is a broad external bank, up to 7m wide across its top. This is best preserved at W, where a small bank runs along both edges of its crest. Here, a small lime-kiln has been built into its outer face. At N, part of the bank has been converted for use as a trackway, and its outer edge is overlain by a field boundary. Outside of the bank at SW, on the S side of a modern field boundary, there are traces of a second external bank; this measures 2.5m wide, rises to a maximum external height of 1.7m, and is separated from the inner bank by a shallow, 2m wide, fosse. 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. 770. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE065-122 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The spring well at this location is probably the one referred to in the IFC Schools' Collection as a holy well beneath a 'huge sally tree'. Bushes now surround the site, which is not marked on the OS maps. Folklore collected from Kilgobnet School recorded the following details; 'There are two holy wells in the district one at Shanara and one at Dunloe. The well at Shanara is called Glunóg and the well at Dunloe is called Tobhair Críost. There is a holy (well) at Shanara. It is in Dan Cahill's farm at Shanara. This is called "Glunóg." There is a little stream rising out of this well. Rounds are paid to this well at certain times of the year. On St John's day and at Michaelmas are the chief times for paying rounds. A great number of people in the district give journeys to the well. They have to come to the well in the early morning. They should not be seen by anybody or the rounds would be no use. When people pay rounds they wash themselves in the little stream flowing into it. They also take three sips of the water and say in the name of the father, and the Son and of the Holy Ghost' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0471, Pages 394-5;https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4742110/4736932/4816945). Folklore collected from Gortnaskarry School recorded the following tradition about this well; 'There is a well in a farm in Shanara owned by Daniel Cahill. It is supposed to be a very holy well. Invalids come from many places to pay rounds there and to get cured. They must have the rounds given before sunrise. It happened a poor blind man came there about sixty years ago to pay rounds, and after finishing his rounds when he was leaving the well he saw a sow and a litter of bonhams running through the field. One night about nine o'clock a woman was bringing water from this well. A priest appeared to her with a white collar on him. "Oh woman" says he "if ye knew the good of this water ye would not be coming so late for it". The well is covered all over with a huge sally tree. An old man from the townland of Shanavala was thatching his home. He cut the branches of this tree for spars to thatch his house with them. Some time after his house was burned so there was never since a branch cut off that tree (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0469, Pages 111-2;https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4742102/4736047/4824223). 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. 1083. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 31 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Shannera Upper, 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.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Shannera Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Shannera Upper · Seanaire Uachtarach

Area

2,884,068 m² (288.41 ha, 712.67 acres)

Civil parish

Knockane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron North

Electoral division

Curraghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

382 people lived in 134 households in the Curraghmore electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyledder, Breanlee, Cappagh, Glancuttaun Upper, Shannera Lower

Placenames

Shannera Upper 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.