Sheeanmore
Sheeanmore is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Sián Mór.
- Area
- 1,071.5 ha
- 2,648 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 84,296 m² (8.43 ha, 20.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheeanmore, from 1,245 m² to 6,038,474 m² (603.85 ha, 1,492.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Sheeanmore 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Sheeanmore 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Owenduff/Nephin Complex SAC 000534
- Special Protection Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex SPA 004098
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Owenduff/Nephin Complex 000534
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sheeanmore.
Architectural heritage
- Shean Lodge, hunting/fishing lodge, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey fishing lodge, built 1871, on an L-shaped plan with three-bay single-storey side elevations; single-bay (three-bay deep) single-storey double-pile return (north). Sold, 1907. Occupied, 1911. "Repaired", 1926. "Disposed", 1928. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued occasional use. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan; hipped double-pile (M-profile) slate roof (north), clay ridge tiles, paired rendered chimney stacks (west) on rendered chamfered bases on axis with ridge with rendered chimney stack (east), and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings to front (south) elevation with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Sheeanmore, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sheeanmore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Sheeanmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Sheeanmore · An Sián Mór
- Area
- 10,715,240 m² (1,071.52 ha, 2,647.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Ballycroy North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 285 people lived in 110 households in the Ballycroy North electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bunmore East, Bunmore West, Gortbrack South, Lettera, Owenduff
- Placenames
- Sheeanmore 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.