Shanahoe

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanahoe, from 36 m² to 427,587 m² (42.76 ha, 105.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Shanahoe 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 2026Conditional

  change the design of the two storey residential element of the portal frame building including fenestration & associated works from that previously granted permission ref. no. 24/60785

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660289

• 14 May 2026N/a

  Change the design of the two storey residential element of the portal frame building including fenestration & associated works from that previously granted permission ref. no. 24/60785

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660279

• 6 May 2026N/a

  retain extension as constructed to existing dwelling, together with all ancillary services

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660258

• 27 Apr 2026Conditional

  demolish an existing garage, the erection of a single storey extension to the side of, internal and external modifications to, the existing single storey dwelling, a garage, and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660235

• 27 Apr 2026N/a

  retain extension as constructed to my existing dwelling, together with all ancillary services

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660238

• 23 Apr 2026N/a

  demolish an existing garage, the erection of a single storey extension to the side of, internal and external modifications to, the existing single storey dwelling, a garage, and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660228

• 23 Apr 2026N/a

  retain extension as constructed to my existing dwelling, together with all ancillary services

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660230

• 20 Feb 2026Conditional

  retain domestic stores and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660096

• 18 Feb 2026N/a

  retain domestic stores and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660088

• 17 Feb 2026N/a

  retain domestic stores and all associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2660084

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  construct a portal frame building to accommodate a two storey residential element, an Equine Holding Centre containing a feed store, 17 boxes, wash bay, tack room, shower room, office, and an internal parking area for horse transporters, also external parking area, dungstead, effluent tank, septic tank and percolation area and all associated and necessary site works using existing entrance and a finger post sign

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460785

• 17 Dec 2024N/a

  construct a portal frame building to accommodate a two storey residential element, an Equine Holding Centre containing a feed store, 17 boxes, wash bay, tack room, shower room, office, and an internal parking area for horse transporters, also external parking area, dungstead, effluent tank, septic tank and percolation area and all associated and necessary site works using existing entrance and a finger post sign

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460772

• 28 Nov 2024Conditional

  change of use of part of community hall for use to playschool with preschool and after school services; new external fenced play area; and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460716

• 11 Nov 2024N/a

  change of use of part of community hall for use to playschool with preschool and after school services; new external fenced play area; and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460686

• 16 Oct 2024Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460627

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460616

• 11 Oct 2024N/a

  construct proposed new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460609

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  construct proposed new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460610

• 2 Apr 2020Conditional

  retain extensions and amendments to existing garage, change the use of same to office/reception, erect a steel shed adjacent to same to accommodate pet incinerator for my proposed pet crematorium

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20177

• 16 Nov 2018Conditional

  consist of the completion of the four house development (ref 15/300) namely: (A) construct the three remaining dwellings each with garage, new entrance, septic tank & percolation area (B) & all ancillary works

  Permission consequent, 3 homes · Laois County Council, 18692

• 25 Oct 2018Conditional

  construct dwelling, garage, septic tank and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18646

• 21 Aug 2018Conditional

  construct a cubicle house, underslat tank, feeding barrier and passageway and apron and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18518

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  construct a two classroom extension and all associated works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17701

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shanahoe Marsh 001923

Recorded monuments

• LA023-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in undulating countryside. A circular area (diam. c. 3.05m) defined by a bank (Wth c. 7m, int. H c. 1m, ext. H c. 2m) and external fosse (Wth c. 6m). Possible original ramp entrance at SSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA023-021 Urn burial
  Description

  An unprotected cremation, found in a gravel ridge in 1936, was set on a flat stone and covered with an elaborately decorated encrusted urn (JRSAI 1946, 210-12). Discovered in a small gravel ridge in 1936 approx. 72 cm below the surface a local farmer uncovered an inverted urn covering a cremated burial. It is an encrusted urn measuring 34cm in height and 34 cm in diameter, highly decorated with raised and curved chevrons with notched ornament, rounded knobs, oval knobs and vertical bars. The base is hexagonal in shape (diam 10 cm). Five lines of herringbone pattern decorate the inside of the rim. It possibly dates to 900 - 600 B.C. (Roe H.M. 1946, 210-212). The urn rested on a small flat stone and no attempt had been made to protect the urn which was placed in a pit and had not been marked by a mound or cairn. There was no surface indication of this burial prior to quarrying. The urn is now in the safe keeping of the National Museum of Ireland. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Shanahoe House, house, 1830–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey over basement early-Victorian Italianate house, c. 1840, with three-bay ashlar loggia and advanced bay to right.

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 Shanahoe, 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 Shanahoe.

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 Shanahoe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Shanahoe · Seanchua

Area

2,907,452 m² (290.75 ha, 718.45 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Clash, the unit of the census

Census 2022

372 people lived in 122 households in the Clash electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boley Lower, Boley Upper, Cappanacloghy, Killeany, Springmount

Placenames

Shanahoe 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.