Shangownagh

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Shangownagh, from 283,648 m² (28.36 ha, 70.09 acres) to 283,648 m² (28.36 ha, 70.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Shangownagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Shangownagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

• LA016-024001 Bridge
  Description

  The source of the record is a reference by Carrigan in ‘The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory’ (1905, ii, 180-1) as follows: ‘In 1847, when the bed of the Nore was being deepened by the Board of Works the foundations of an ancient oak bridge were come upon at a depth of several feet, where the river flows between the townlands of Kildreenagh and Coldharbour. In the same spot and at the same level were found much human remains, among them a skull of extraordinary size; also several steel swords, almost eaten away with rust; several swords of bronze, all perfect, and shaped like flaggers; and part of an iron helmet. The people say that a fierce battle, which they call the "Battle of Kildreenagh," was fought here, very long ago between the men of Munster and the men of Ossory.’ Carrigan is mistaken in noting that the Nore flows between the townlands of Kildreenagh (Kildrinagh) and Coldharbour and appears to have confused these with the adjoining townlands of the same name some 30km to the south in County Kilkenny. While it is reasonable to suggest that the present bridge is on the site of the ‘ancient oak bridge’ this is by no means certain and the current ITM coordinates should only be considered as indicative of the general area where the works were undertaken in 1847. No visible traces survive. (Sweetman et al. 1995, no. 1042, p. 128) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 4 September 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Shangownagh.

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

Name

Shangownagh · An tSeanghamhnach

Area

283,649 m² (28.36 ha, 70.09 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletown electoral division: 835 people in 287 households; 80% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altavilla, Butterisland, Coolnagour, Kildrinagh, Knockbrack, Laurel Hill, Peafield

Placenames

Shangownagh 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.