Shanrah
Townland in the civil parish of Killanny, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Seanráth
- Area
- 51.2 ha
- 127 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 7,524 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanrah, from 59 m² to 133,462 m² (13.35 ha, 32.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
No zone of a development plan covers Shanrah 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
5 Jun 2026N/a
permission for development which will consist of a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage and new waste water treatment unit , and percolation area & new entrance onto public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660236
16 Jul 2021Conditional
permission for a development to consist of a dwelling house, domestic garage and new waste water treatment unit, percolation area and new entrance onto public road and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to revised house plan, relocation of entrance and access road and relocation of dwelling house and domestic garage.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21415
5 Jun 2020Conditional
Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage with required waste water treatment unit and percolation area and new site entrance on to the public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20148
17 May 2019Conditional
permission to develop a two storey dwelling, detached garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance and associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19227
11 May 2018Conditional
Permission to construct a two storey dwelling, detached garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance off existing agricultural entrance and associated site works. Significant further information relates to change of boundaries.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18198
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 Shanrah.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shanrah.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shanrah.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Shanrah.
- 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 Shanrah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Shanrah · An Seanráth
- Area
- 512,230 m² (51.22 ha, 126.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killanny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Ballymackney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballymackney electoral division: 1,001 people in 335 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickavallan (Co. Louth), Drumever, Drumhasket, Drumturk, Lisnashannagh, Tullyraine (Co. Louth)
- Placenames
- Shanrah 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.