Shannagh

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shannagh, from 38 m² to 177,253 m² (17.73 ha, 43.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Shannagh 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.

• 8 Sept 2025Conditional

  3 NO. SILAGE PITS AND 1 NO. AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561537

• 8 Aug 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO POULTRY SHEDS INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351175

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 Shannagh.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-028 Enclosure
  Description

  There is no trace of the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated on the level top of a low hill in good land. The development site is located c. 1.5km to the south east of Raphoe Village, Co. Donegal. The site was a greenfield site and the proposed development was a single bungalow and associated siteworks. The boundary of the proposed development was adjacent to the constraint area of a site of an enclosure (DG070–028----) with the resultant request for further information based upon excavated test-trenches. A separate site of a single house located to the south-east was the subject of a geophysical survey and test-trenching by Anne Carey in June 2007 (Excavations 2007, No. 377, 07E0490). The site is closer to the location of the enclosure (site). The testing revealed carried out by Eoin Sullivan of Gort Archaeology under licence No. 07E1175 that the geophysical anomalies were not of archaeological significance. The cartographic sources show a circular enclosure, probably a ringfort, on the mid-19th-century edition of the OS map. However, no other available maps show the presence of the enclosure. The site was visited prior to the excavation of the trenches and no visible traces of an enclosure were identifiable on the field surface. The site was assessed on the basis of five mechanically excavated test-trenches, each of which had similar stratigraphy, consisting of shallow topsoil overlying orange/brown subsoil that in turn overlay undisturbed natural slate. No features or materials of archaeological significance were encountered during the excavation of the test-trenches. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 18 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shannagh, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Shannagh · Seanach

Area

465,963 m² (46.6 ha, 115.14 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Raphoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,521 people lived in 591 households in the Raphoe electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortaquigley, Gortnesk, Lismontigley, Magherahaan

Placenames

Shannagh 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.