Shane
Shane is a townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Sián.
- Area
- 72.7 ha
- 180 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 6,281 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shane, from 113 m² to 100,449 m² (10.04 ha, 24.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Shane 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
16 Oct 2024Conditional
permission for the development consist of a new two-storey dwelling house with a new wastewater treatment system together with all ancillary and associated site works. Significant Further Information received relates to revised site boundary, revised landscaping plan, and alterations to building design including elevational changes.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460385
16 Mar 2022Conditional
permission consisting of a dry bedded shed for the housing of livestock along with an unroofed silage base & other associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22123
2 Jun 2021N/a
permission to construct a dry bedded shed for the housing of livestock along with an unroofed silage base & other associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21323
12 Apr 2021Conditional
Permission to provide a new walking track with two stream crossovers, dugouts that straddle stream, entrance paybox, new supporters area and retaining wall, new car parking area with lighting poles, children's play area, additional floodlights and fencing, provision of habitat for native bees species and all associated works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21185
22 Feb 2017Conditional
permission for the erection of a new single storey extension to the rear of the exisiting two storey dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1776
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 Shane.
Recorded monuments
- MO024-004 Burial ground
Description
Located on a local rise with small SE-NW streams c. 150m to the NE and c. 200m to the SW. It is described as a graveyard on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a rectangular, slightly raised and overgrown area (dims 27.7m NW-SE; 23.4m NE-SW; 27.7m) enclosed by the foundations and the remains of a wall faced with slabs set on edge. The slab-lined entrance is in the middle of the SE side. It contains grave markers in lines of small stones and several thin slabs. According to tradition, it was known as ‘Shane Moat’ and was used in Penal and Famine times (IFC Schools' MSS vol. 938, 257), for which see this web-page accessed on 27/04/2018: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes There is no evidence of a church. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 May 2018
Architectural heritage
- House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, possibly incorporating earlier fabric to rear (south-west), having full-height return to rear gabled entrance porch, and with two-storey flat-roofed addition to re-entrant corner to north-west of return. Now unoccupied, and having modern house adjacent. Hipped slate roofs, with paired timber corbels to eaves, and rendered paired chimneystacks with clay pots. Corrugated-iron roof to flat roofed section. Pitched slate roof and timber bargeboards to porch. Some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings throughout, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted sills. Three-over-three pane timber sliding sash window to rear elevation of return. Timber fixed window with pivoting top-light to north-west elevation. Round-headed door opening to front elevation, having timber panelled double-leaf door with fanlight. Square-headed door opening to south-east elevation, having replacement timber door. Square-headed door opening to porch, having timber panelled door and over-light. Square-headed door opening to south-west elevation, having timber battened door. Set back from road, with recent house to north-west. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to yard to rear, having rendered external staircase to front (north-east) elevation, with hipped slate roof, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed openings with some timber fittings.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shane.
- 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 Shane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Shane · An Sián
- Area
- 726,579 m² (72.66 ha, 179.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Greagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 481 people lived in 170 households in the Greagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumguillew Lower, Drumguillew Upper, Drumhawan, Rossollus, Toome, Tullycarragh
- Placenames
- Shane 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.