Shannaghdoo

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shannaghdoo, from 250 m² to 118,336 m² (11.83 ha, 29.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Shannaghdoo 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.

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660996

• 9 May 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. DWELLING HOUSES WITH INDIVIDUAL SEPTIC TANK SYSTEMS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550064

• 27 Sept 2023Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING AND EXISTING OUTHOUSE AND ERECTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351454

• 18 Mar 2020Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. DWELLING HOUSES WITH INDIVIDUAL SEPTIC TANK SYSTEMS WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050344

• 17 Dec 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK/TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951962

• 1 Feb 2019Refused

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF ERECTION OF 2NO DWELLING HOUSES WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION 06/50797 REFERS)

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950113

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC 001975
• Special Protection Area: Fanad Head SPA 004148
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head 001975

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shannaghdoo.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shannaghdoo, 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 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 Shannaghdoo.

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 Shannaghdoo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Shannaghdoo · Seanach Dubh

Area

1,476,569 m² (147.66 ha, 364.87 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

540 people lived in 209 households in the Fanad North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincrick and Ballynabrocky, Cooladerry, Cooladerry Mountain, Magheradrumman

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Shannaghdoo 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.