# Shannera Upper, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockane, barony of Dunkerron North, Co. Kerry; in Irish Seanaire Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,884,068 m² (288.41 ha, 712.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,795 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knockane, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/knockane.md - Barony: Dunkerron North - Electoral division: Curraghmore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/22371 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 72508 - Centre: latitude 52.035619, longitude -9.757058 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shannera Upper, from 120 m² to 140,806 m² (14.08 ha, 34.79 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1215087: 140,806 m² (14.08 ha, 34.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215087.md - Parcel 1215133: 122,389 m² (12.24 ha, 30.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215133.md - Parcel 1229348: 112,762 m² (11.28 ha, 27.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229348.md - Parcel 1164897: 105,519 m² (10.55 ha, 26.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164897.md - Parcel 1215089: 69,954 m² (7 ha, 17.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215089.md - Parcel 1177852: 56,849 m² (5.68 ha, 14.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1177852.md - Parcel 1215090: 46,900 m² (4.69 ha, 11.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215090.md - Parcel 1215091: 39,301 m² (3.93 ha, 9.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215091.md - Parcel 1215134: 34,121 m² (3.41 ha, 8.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215134.md - Parcel 1235317: 29,994 m² (3 ha, 7.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235317.md - Parcel 1235319: 19,693 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235319.md - Parcel 1213964: 15,323 m² (1.53 ha, 3.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1213964.md - Parcel 1234044: 13,771 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1234044.md - Parcel 1219500: 13,532 m² (1.35 ha, 3.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1219500.md - Parcel 1217480: 12,339 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1217480.md - Parcel 1235318: 11,612 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235318.md - Parcel 1235316: 10,987 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1235316.md - Parcel 1215088: 10,603 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215088.md - Parcel 5189371: 4,544 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5189371.md - Parcel 1229421: 4,040 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229421.md - Parcel 1211319: 3,028 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1211319.md - Parcel 1138713: 2,826 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138713.md - Parcel 1166789: 2,654 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1166789.md - Parcel 1214235: 2,209 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214235.md - Parcel 1237484: 2,186 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237484.md - Parcel 1229894: 1,771 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229894.md - Parcel 1215027: 1,576 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215027.md - Parcel 1215028: 1,518 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1215028.md - Parcel 6166476: 1,479 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6166476.md - Parcel 1222843: 1,455 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1222843.md - Parcel 6166472: 1,193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6166472.md - Parcel 6165682: 1,027 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6165682.md - Parcel 5930937: 128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5930937.md - Parcel 6003940: 120 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6003940.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 2 Oct 2025, Kerry County Council 25243: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/25243/0 - 2 May 2025, Kerry County Council 25111: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/25111/0 - 11 Aug 2020, Kerry County Council 20714: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/20714/0 - 31 Jan 2020, Kerry County Council 2073: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2073/0 - 2 Dec 2019, Kerry County Council 191221: N/a. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/191221/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC, site code 000343, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000343 - Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC, site code 000365, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000365 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment, site code 000365 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE065-083: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE065-083----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE065-122----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shannera Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/shannera-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/shannera-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/shannera-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyledder: https://everytownland.com/kerry/ballyledder.md - Breanlee: https://everytownland.com/kerry/breanlee.md - Cappagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cappagh-70565.md - Glancuttaun Upper: https://everytownland.com/kerry/glancuttaun-upper.md - Shannera Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/shannera-lower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/shannera-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/shannera-upper