Shammerbaun
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmovee, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Seamar Bán
- Area
- 166.9 ha
- 412 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 17,358 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shammerbaun, from 26 m² to 163,848 m² (16.38 ha, 40.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Aug 2026N/a
Planning Permission for the operation of the surface water treatment process carried out within the existing building approved under planning reference P25/60785, and for the retention of minor ancillary works including the relocation of a water storage tank and car park layout
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660644
7 Nov 2025Conditional
The development consists of the retention and completion of alterations to change the site boundary, addition of a 1st floor office area & alterations to the previously granted ground floor office layout, a decrease in yard space, the addition of a water treatment area & generator store to the rear of the building and minor alterations to previously granted carparking layout
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560785
5 Jul 2022Conditional
SINGLE STOREY INDUSTRIAL UNIT WITH ANCILLARY OFFICE AREAS AND STAFF FACILITIES. SITEWORKS TO INCLUDE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO SERVICE THE DEVELOPMENT, CAR PARKING SPACE, NEW HARD SURFACED DELIVERY/SERVICE YARD, ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22546
23 Mar 2021Conditional
Construct a slatted house with ancillary concrete slab, including all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21260
27 Oct 2020Conditional
EXTRACTION OF UP TO 40,000 TONNES PER ANNUM OF GRAVEL DEPOSITS OVER A 2.3 HECTARE EXTRACTION AREA, WITHIN A 2.4 HECTARE DEVELOPMENT SITE, REMOVAL OF GRAVEL OFF SITE, RESTORATION OF THE GRAVEL PIT AND PROVISION FOR OCCASIONAL DRY SCREENING. THE APPLICANT IS SEEKING A 15 YEAR PERMISSION.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20799
11 Dec 2018Conditional
EXTRACTION OF UP TO 40,000 TONNES PER ANNUM OF GRAVEL DEPOSITS OVER A 2.3 HECTARE EXTRACTION AREA, WITHIN A 2.4 HECTARE DEVELOPMENT SITE, REMOVAL OF GRAVEL OFF-SITE, AND RESTORATION OF THE GRAVEL PIT, OVER A 15 YEAR TERM WITH PROVISION FOR OCCASIONAL DRY SCREENING
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18992
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Shammerbaun.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shammerbaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shammerbaun.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shammerbaun.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Shammerbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Shammerbaun · An Seamar Bán
- Area
- 1,669,248 m² (166.92 ha, 412.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmovee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Kilkelly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilkelly electoral division: 961 people in 382 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curryaun, Derragh, Gowlaun, Kilkelly, Kilmore, Knockbrack, Shammerdoo, Tullynahoo
- Placenames
- Shammerbaun 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.