Shantallow

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shantallow, from 326 m² to 132,677 m² (13.27 ha, 32.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Shantallow 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.

• 30 May 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission to extend dwelling house, alter elevations, upgrade foul treatment system, and relocate entrance all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360193

• 7 Mar 2019Conditional

  DEMOLITION AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PRIVATE DWELLINGHOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, CONSTRUCT NEW PRIVATE VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE. DEMOLITION OF DISUSED SHEDS AT FARMYARD ENTRANCE AND WIDEN SAME TO SERVE AS AGRICUTURAL ENTRANCE TO FARMYARD. RETENTION PLANNING TO RETAIN 1 NO. AGRICULTURAL SHED INCLUDING ANCILLARY SLURRY STORAGE FACILITIES ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES. PREVIOUS PLANNING REFERENCE NO. P06/1492 REFER

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19154

• 27 Nov 2017Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FIRE DAMAGED HOUSE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17941

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 Shantallow.

Recorded monuments

• MA111-052 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In gently undulating limestone grassland, straddling an E-W seam of limestone bedrock. Views are good, especially extensive to W. Recorded in an aerial photograph (SMR file: GSI M 26 –7; Roll 205, pr. 3) as a square or subcircular enclosure crossed roughly centrally by a field wall on a N–S axis. The outline of a roughly square enclosure (36m NW–SE; c. 36m NE–SW) with rounded corners can be discerned at ground level. It is defined on its W half by a low, sod-covered stone bank/wall (Wth c. 3.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m at SW). To E of the N-S field wall which crosses the interior, the enclosure has been levelled, but the curve of the N–NE angle can still be traced. The enclosing wall on the W half is dilapidated and varies in width, and has clearly been much disturbed and robbed out in the past. At N it appears to coincide with a natural bedrock seam. Remnants of original stone facing may survive at SW. At S–SW the wall merges with a low natural rise that extends as a roughly triangular terrace (max. dim. 11m) to SW of the enclosure. Several sod-covered stony heaps and spreads are evident in the interior. The interior slopes down gradually from N to S, levelling out in the SW quadrant which is clear of stone and appears slightly sunken relative to the rest of the interior. The drop in interior ground level from N to S is c. 1-1.5m Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 December 2022

• MA111-055 Enclosure
  Description

  In a flat field of poorly drained pasture. Not shown on the 1939 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps. A circular hachured enclosure (diam. 25-30m) is shown on the OS 25-inch plan, and is recorded as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 25m) in an aerial photograph (SMR file: GSI M 26- 7; Roll 205, pr. 4). At ground level a cropmark (max. dim. c. 40m) of slightly yellower grass is evident, defining an area that is softer and wetter underfoot. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 December 2022

• MA111-056 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on a level area on a ridge top, with a fall of ground c. 25m to W, providing extensive views. A circular enclosure (diam.20-25m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. There is no visible trace at ground level. A minor road, on a N–S, axis crosses the location, bordered at the E by a vegetable garden and a concrete cattle crush. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 December 2022

• MA111-084 Church
  Description

  Located in a garden field bordered at W by a vernacular cottage, now renovated and extended, with associated two-storey stone-built granary, farm buildings and walled yard. An E-W road lies immediately to S. ‘Chapel (Ruin)’ is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and ‘Chapel (in Ruins)’ on the 1930 edition. Both map editions depict a cluster of buildings here, including a number of E-W rectangular buildings and a L-shaped building, with a main E-W part and an extension to N at the E end. It is not obvious on the maps which of these building is the church. Remains of a stone-built building, probably L-shaped in plan, are incorporated into the SE angle of the garden, bordered on its S side by a road, with an intervening grass verge. According to local information, this is the chapel. The S wall (L c. 13-14m E−W; H 1.46m) is intact, retaining its external facing of well-cut, mortared limestone blocks, largely obscured by ivy at the W end. The upper two courses, consisting of loose roughly placed stones, were rebuilt in the second half of the 20th century during a Fás restoration scheme. There is a doorway (Wth 1.1m) mid-way along the S wall. The doorway is blocked up with stones, with some concrete blocks forming the upper courses (again the Fás scheme). The interior wall face is rougher in appearance. It contains a semi-circular recess (H 0.28m; Wth 0.65m; D 0.5m) 1.2m E of the doorway, at a height of c. 0.8m above ground level. The head of the recess is formed by an arch of two stones. The base is roughly filled with stones. A short return (L 2.45m) to N at the W end of the S wall is all that remains of the W wall. It terminates at a clean break suggesting there was a door or window here. Punch-dressed quoin stones can be seen at the SE angle of the building. The E wall (max. H 2.5m) extends to N for 6.65m from SE angle; it now serves as a field boundary. It ends at a doorway (Wth 0.92; H 1.7m) with a flat arch of voussoirs. The S jamb is relatively narrow consisting of mostly square blocks and vertically-set stones. In contrast, the N jamb is wider, consisting of large horizontally laid blocks interspersed with courses of smaller stones. This doorway it is now roughly blocked up with stones. Immediately N of the doorway, a wall (T 0.7m) continues for 9.8m to N with a hint of a return to W at its N end. One stone of this wall appears to be keyed into the N side of the doorway. However, this wall exhibiting a much rougher construction technique and clearly differs from the S portion of the E wall. It too now serves as a field boundary, but the hint of a return to W suggests that it may represent a later extension, giving the building an L-shaped plan. This appears to be the L-shaped building shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The remains are difficult to interpret, and are of uncertain date. They may date to 18th or early 19th century. There is now no trace of the E-W rectangular buildings shown to E of this one on the OS 6-inch maps. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 February 2023

• MA111-096 Burnt mound
  Description

  In pasture, in an area of gently undulating limestone terrain. Located on a gentle E–facing slope on the W bank of a stream/drain, sheltered to the NW by a low rise. The stream/drain is shallow and has been recut in the past but is now choked with vegetation; the water flows to SW. A low, sod-covered semicircular rise (10.5m E–W; c. 6.8m N–S; H 0.3m at W, 0.5m at E), with a slight central hollow marked by a dense growth of nettles. The mound is bordered on the straight side to S by an E–W field wall. A slight rise (2–3m N–S) abutting the S side of the wall may also be part of the mound. When inspected in 2000, a portion of the mound, which had been eroded by farm stock, revealed angular stone fragments in dark soil. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 March 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shantallow, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_448 (ZIP).

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 Shantallow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Shantallow · Seantalamh

Area

1,328,799 m² (132.88 ha, 328.35 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilcommon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

676 people lived in 257 households in the Kilcommon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brittas, Bushfield, Creggawatta, Lissatava, Pollbaun, Seefin

Placenames

Shantallow 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.