Shantum

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shantum, from 69 m² to 160,429 m² (16.04 ha, 39.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Shantum 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 Shantum 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 Shantum.

Recorded monuments

• LF020-002 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  On the highest point of a ridge in pasture. A circular, dome-shaped mound of earth and stone (diam. at base c. 8m; H 1.8-2m). There is no trace of an encircling bank or fosse. From NE-S-SSW it is skirted by a low field bank and ditch. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF020-003 Enclosure
  Description

  On the E slope of a ridge in pasture. A raised D-shaped area (c. 49m NW–SE; c. 32m NE–SW), with a straight SW side, enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4-4.5m; H 0.2-0.4m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.5-4m; D 0.1-0.2m). The latter has been recut and is used as a field drain from E–SE–SSE. Along the SW side it has been filled in where a roadway skirts the monument. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a low outer bank at NE; it is no longer visible. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_1844 (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 Shantum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Shantum · An Seantom

Area

716,829 m² (71.68 ha, 177.13 acres)

Civil parish

Mostrim, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ballymuigh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymuigh electoral division: 237 people in 101 households; 83% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindagny and Cullyvore, Ballinree and Ballymoat, Garryconnell, Liscahill, Tinnynarr

Placenames

Shantum 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.