Shangarry

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shangarry, from 24 m² to 85,979 m² (8.6 ha, 21.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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  Newcastle West Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Shangarry 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

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

Recorded monuments

• LI036-060001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been truncated on N and E sides so that enclosing element now evident only SE->WNW. This is truncated on E side by N-S field boundary and on N side by enclosure surrounding holy well (LI036-06002-). Surviving section of enclosing element consists of earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.35m) with an external fosse (D 1.1m; Wth 0.65m) SE->WNW. Surviving interior (28.5m N-S; 27.45m E-W) is level and under pasture which is churned-up in places by tracks of farm machinery. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-060002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In enclosed landscaped area, in NE quadrant of ringfort (LI036-06001-). Circular modern stone wall (diam. 1.05m) encloses well head with outflow on E side. A concrete statue of St Brighit stands beside the well. According to Ó Danachair (1955, 212) rounds made on 1st February and 'a pattern was held formerly on this day … legend: Saint Brighid converted a pagan chieftan who lived in the fort, and caused a well to spring up for baptism.' See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight N-facing slope. Circular area (32.2m N-S; 31.9m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 0.6m; Wth 2.1m). Field boundaries, which formerly abutted enclosure at NW, E and SW, have been removed. Interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-202 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. D-shaped area (straight side 30m NNE-SSW; 14m WNW-ESE) defined on straight side by field boundary and stream, and enclosed SSW-NNE by fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.15m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having lean-to outbuilding to side (south-west). Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lean-to corrugated-iron roof to lean-to outbuilding. Slightly battered, rendered rubble stone and mud walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation. Square-headed door opening having rendered step and timber battened door. Various single-storey outbuildings forming farmyard to rear. Located fronting directly onto the main Abbeyfeale to Newcastle West road.

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 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_439 (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 Shangarry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Shangarry · An Seangharraí

Area

736,801 m² (73.68 ha, 182.07 acres)

Civil parish

Monagay, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Newcastle Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newcastle Rural electoral division: 2,491 people in 875 households; 68% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintubbrid, Ballinvallig, Cullenagh, Killaghteen, Knockane

Placenames

Shangarry 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.