Shanakill

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanakill, from 408 m² to 290,595 m² (29.06 ha, 71.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Shanakill 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.

• 12 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6786

• 11 Oct 2017Conditional

  Build slatted cubicle shed, cover existing slatted tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6650

• 25 May 2016Conditional

  Construction of calf shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5250

• 6 May 2016Incompleted application

  Permission to construct a two storey extension to rear of cottage including alterations to existing cottage which includes raising of walls and roof of same, septic tank and all associated works and permission for retention of domestic entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5074

• 14 Apr 2016Incompleted application

  A two-storey extension to rear of cottage including renovations to existing cottage, septic tank and all associated works and Retention of domestic entrance.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4822

• 3 Oct 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted cow unit with cubicles and underground tank and extension to dairy

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11145

• 22 Dec 2005Conditional

  Overground slurry store and shuttle chanel, receptive slatted tank and effluent tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9625

• 22 Jan 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/275

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO039-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30); external fosse shown to N and S on 1904 OS 6-inch map; only S arc remains on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO039-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on WNW-facing slope, overlooking Owenbaun River. Circular area (32m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks (H 0.9m) NW->WSW with shallow intervening fosse; elsewhere banks removed by quarrying which extends into interior. Gap in inner bank (Wth 2.5m) to NNW and in outer bank (Wth 3m) to N. Banks and disused quarry planted with coniferous trees. Surrounding field fences removed; debris dumped on outer bank and intervening fosse to E, adjacent to N-S trackway outside fort. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO040-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, above floodplain of Rathcool River. Circular, slightly raised area (31m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by earthen bank (H 1.8) with shallow external fosse. Gap (Wth 2.3m) in bank to ENE. Vegetables previously grown in interior; now grass-covered. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO040-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Shown as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO040-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Circular area (36m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 1m), with shallow external fosse. Bank heavily overgrown. Interior saucer-shaped; surface uneven. Low undulation probably indicates former existence of outer bank; supported by hachures depicting second bank, forshort section to S, on 1937 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO040-038 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, beside spring. Grass-covered spread of burnt material; slight rise indicates position. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shanakill, 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, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Shanakill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Shanakill · An tSeanchill

Area

1,037,588 m² (103.76 ha, 256.39 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcorney, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Kilcorney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

333 people lived in 128 households in the Kilcorney electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boolymore, Carragraigue, Drombeg, Gortnaclogh, Kilcorney, Killeen, Knockanroe, Rathcool

Placenames

Shanakill 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.