Shanderry

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanderry, from 1,953 m² to 212,607 m² (21.26 ha, 52.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Shanderry 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.

• 6 Mar 2026Conditional

  retain existing storage shed and all associated works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660123

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 Shanderry.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shanderry.

Architectural heritage

• Shanderry House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey house, c. 1830. Renovated and extended, c. 1970, with flat-roofed projecting porch added to front and returns added to rear.

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 Shanderry, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Shanderry · Seandoire

Area

409,869 m² (40.99 ha, 101.28 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Coolrain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

328 people lived in 119 households in the Coolrain electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altavilla, Coolrain, Laurel Hill, Windsor or Cappaghnahoran

Placenames

Shanderry 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.