Shanavaur

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanavaur, from 31 m² to 595,927 m² (59.59 ha, 147.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Shanavaur 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.

• 28 Jun 2025Conditional

  Change House Type in relation to Planning File Reference No. 2360003 and to include all associated site works at Deerpark, Mountrath, Co. Laois.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560383

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  Construct a part single, part two storey dwelling house domestic garage, effluent treatment system & percolation area, new site entrance along with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460217

• 23 Apr 2024N/a

  Construct a part single, part two storey dwelling house domestic garage, effluent treatment system & percolation area, new site entrance along with all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460213

• 3 Jan 2023Conditional

  retain existing mobile home for a period of 5 years, permission for a proposed 2-storey dwelling house, garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and to include all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360003

• 21 Dec 2022N/a

  Retain Existing Mobile Home for a period of 5 years, Planning Permission for a Proposed 2-Story Dwelling House, Garage, Site Entrance, Wastewater Treatment System & Percolation Area and to include all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2260064

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shanavaur.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2001 (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.

No address of the register names Shanavaur with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Shanavaur · An Seanbharr

Area

853,872 m² (85.39 ha, 211 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Brisha, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Deerpark, Derrycon, Drim, Sconce Upper

Placenames

Shanavaur 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.