Shanbeg

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanbeg, from 80 m² to 201,614 m² (20.16 ha, 49.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Shanbeg 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.

• 25 Mar 2025Conditional

  construct a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, entrance onto public road & all associated Site works at Shanbeg, Rosenallis, Co. Laois

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560157

• 1 May 2024Conditional

  construct new dwelling house,domestic garage,waste water treatment system and polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460237

• 16 Jun 2023Conditional

  construct a two storey dweling with waste water treatment system, bored well and all site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23179

• 30 Sept 2022Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling with waste water treatment system, bored well, a processing shed in conjunction with proposed flower growing enterprise on site

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22606

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  consist of the construction of a proposed two-storey dwelling and a separate domestic garage, a proposed wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and associated site works, including a bored well and proposed site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18633

• 15 Oct 2018Conditional

  a change of use of an existing outbuilding and first floor storage space into a self-contained accommodation unit

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18619

• 9 Jun 2017N/a

  construct a proposed two-storey dwelling and a separate domestic garage, a proposed wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and associated siteworks, including a bored well and a proposed site entrance.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17297

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 Shanbeg.

Recorded monuments

• LA003-016001 Round tower
  Description

  Unlocated Round tower within the village of Rosenallis, marked on current edition of the OS 6-inch map as site of Round Tower. No surface remains visible. O'Donovan describes how an old man remembered a 'narrow steeple of rough masonry, not so high or well built as the Steeple of Timahoe'. Tradition ascribes its erection to O'Dun, Chief of Dooregan. It was pulled down some years ago by the Minister (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, p. 69). The OS Letters of 1838 recorded the demolition of the round tower by the 'Minister [who] pulled down a slender steeple which stood opposte the door of this church (LA003-016002-), because he found that it was in his way, and converted the stone to a more useful purpose than they had served, while piled together in the shape of a steeple since the time of St. Bridget, that is to indulge the curiosity of a number of cracked people called antiquarians and to serve as a habitation for jackdaws' (O'Flanagan 1933, 57). Sir Charles Coote described the monument as located beside the church and contiguous to it 'stands the walls of a round tower, but not one third as high as those circular towers seen thro the kingdom, nor evidently was it built for the like purpose. The walls of a windmill stand at some distance from the village and bear strong resemblance to the tower just described, but the former has no entrance' (O'Flanagan 1933, 69). The location of this tower was recorded as 'The round tower stood between the gable-end of the old Protestant school and the road to Shanbeg. A large heap of stones was pointed out to me many years ago as the site of the tower' (Crossdaile 1959, 1). 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/revision: 01 March 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shanbeg, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Shanbeg · An Sián Beag

Area

773,772 m² (77.38 ha, 191.2 acres)

Civil parish

Rosenallis, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Rosenallis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

442 people lived in 140 households in the Rosenallis electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Camira Glebe, Corbally, Nutgrove, Rinn, Rosenallis, Tinneel

Placenames

Shanbeg 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.