Shinnagh

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shinnagh, from 352 m² to 119,830 m² (11.98 ha, 29.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Shinnagh 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.

• 19 May 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct a granny flat, a proprietary effluent treatment system,and ancillary site development works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560303

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 Shinnagh.

Recorded monuments

• MA070-076 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Towards the W lower slopes of a broad gentle ridge in partially improved pasture. Reported as a possible fulacht fia (SMR file). Modern gravel fill appears to overlie the reported location and no visible surface trace of a monument was found upon inspection. Date of visit: 13-11-2024 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

• MA070-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture at the N end of a low flat–topped ridge. A small overgrown, circular area (int. diam. 22m) is enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (int. H 0.2m; Wth 3.5m; ext. H 0.4-0.6m) from NE to SE to SSW which has been reduced to a scarp (ext. H 0.5–1.6m) elsewhere. A wide band of nettle growth (Wth 4m) from N to NE may indicate the line of a back-filled outer fosse, but its line is not clearly visible elsewhere. Pine trees and elder bushes grow along parts of the perimeter and in the interior which is generally level and featureless. A later field fence shown running roughly E-W immediately to the S of the monument on the OS 25-inch map (1893) has been almost entirely removed, apart from a short section (L c. 5m) to the SSW, and a second boundary shown running N-S immediately to the E of the monument has been removed completely.  Date of visit: 26-11-2024 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

• MA070-078 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a gentle E facing slope in partly rush-covered rough pasture c. 10m to the W of a small N-flowing stream and overlooked by a steep ridge to the E. Reported as a possible fulacht fia (SMR file). No visible surface trace of a monument survives at the reported location. Date of visit: 12-12-2024 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

• MA070-079001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On slightly raised ground in low-lying damp rush-covered rough grazing with a field drain c. 6m to the E. Reported as a possible fulacht fia (SMR file). A low, subcircular, stony mound (diams. 18m E-W; 16m N-S; H 0.4m at N - 0.7m at W) has a shallow, nettle-filled depression (L 2m NE-SW; Wth 1.5m; D 0.2m) in the NE sector. A second fulacht fia (MA070-079002-) lies c. 75m to the SSW. Date of visit: 1-8-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

• MA070-079002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On slightly raised ground in low-lying damp rush-covered rough grazing overlooked by a low ridge to the W. Reported as a possible fulacht fia (SMR file). A low subcircular, grass-covered mound (ext. diams. 23m E-W; 21m N-S; av. H 0.4m) has a circular upper surface (diam. 13m) which slopes slightly downwards towards the E. A second fulacht fia (MA070-07901-) lies c. 75m to the NNE. Date of visit: 1-8-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shinnagh, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shinnagh.

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

Name

Shinnagh · Sonnach

Area

706,950 m² (70.7 ha, 174.69 acres)

Civil parish

Turlough, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Turlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,560 people lived in 531 households in the Turlough electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmacloughlin, Cloonnagleragh, Cloontubbrid, Levallinree

Placenames

Shinnagh 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.