Shaen

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shaen, from 283 m² to 259,883 m² (25.99 ha, 64.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 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 Shaen 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.

• 27 Jun 2025Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance, ancillary site services and all associated site works

  Permission consequent, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2560382

• 28 Feb 2023Conditional

  construct a shed together with all ancillary services.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360064

• 25 Feb 2023Conditional

  construct private dwelling, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank, and percolation area, and all associated ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360061

• 10 Sept 2021Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, new septic tank treatment system and percolation area, shared site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21636

• 10 Sept 2021Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, new septic tank treatment system and percolation area, shared site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21637

• 12 Jul 2021Conditional

  dwelling house, domestic garage, new septic tank treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21497

• 26 Feb 2021Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and entrance.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21118

• 25 Feb 2021N/a

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, secondary sewage treatment system and entrance.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21114

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  construct granny flat extension to the rear of existing welling house, link walk way and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20356

• 8 Oct 2018Conditional

  demolish existing garage & part of the existing house & replace with a proposed single storey extension to the rear & side elevation of the existing dwelling house, to erect a new garage and to include all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18605

• 13 Dec 2017Conditional

  construct dwelling house, detached domestic garage/shed, wastewater treatment system, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17671

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Shaen.

Recorded monuments

• LA008-011 Enclosure
  Description

  No evidence of any archaeological site, probably was a copse, now in forested land. Depicted as an antiquity on first edition of the OS 6-inch map, but may have been an enclosure for woodland copse of 18th-19th century date. Unsure about antiquity of monument. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA008-013001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a hill is a stone-walled garden, the NW angle has a distinct batter and projects forward from the line of the garden. This section of masonry (3.8m E-W, 3.9m N-S, H 2.8m) is built of roughly coursed limestone blocks and appears to be part of a castle, probably a tower house (JKAS 1909, Vol. VI, 68) which is said to have been destroyed in 1650. Sheela-na-Gig (LA008-013002-) is thought to have come from here (Guest 1936, 117). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA008-013002 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a hill is a stone-walled garden whose NW angle has a distinct batter and projects forward from the line of the garden.This section of masonry (3.80m E-W, 3.90m N-S, H 2.80m) is built with roughly coursed limestone blocks and appears to be part of a castle, probably a tower house (LA008-013001-) (JKAS 1909, Vol. VI, 68) which is said to have been destroyed in 1650. Sheela-na-Gig thought to have come from here (Guest 1936, 117) location not now known. In the Ordnance Survey Letters of Tipperary, John O’Donovan wrote ‘that there was another figure of a similar hideous character on the old Castle of Shane (LA008-013001-) in the Queen’s County – a building erected by the O’Mores of Leix about the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, part 2, 121). However in the Ordnance Survey Letters of County Laois, O’Donovan wrote that he ‘had no time to go to Shane Hill when I was in the Parish, to ascertain whether any of the castle remains or not. I have been informed, however, by a creditworthy man, that no part of it exists’ (O’Flanagan 1933, 64). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 23 May 2012

Architectural heritage

• Saint Brigid's Hospital, country house, 1800–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached neo-Classical country house, c.1810, with pedimented breakfront having projecting Ionic porch and advanced end bays.

• Saint Brigid's Hospital, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Castellated gateway, dated 1842, designed by William Deane Butler (1793/4-1857). Known as "Tower Lodge".

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 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 Shaen.

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 Shaen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Shaen · An Sián

Area

4,207,565 m² (420.76 ha, 1,039.71 acres)

Civil parish

Straboe, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough East

Electoral division

Shaen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shaen electoral division: 1,001 people in 326 households; 95% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydavis, Coolbanagher, Cottagefarm, Derrygarran, Eyne, Greatheath, Killeen or Killeenlynagh, Killeen or Killeenlynagh, Straboe

Placenames

Shaen 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.