Shinan

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shinan, from 209 m² to 62,598 m² (6.26 ha, 15.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Shinan 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.

• 7 Jul 2025Conditional

  for a 2-storey masonry constructed dwelling, new site entrance, gates, piers, walls, septic tank, percolation area and all other associated site works. SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560367

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  for (i) restoration works to an existing cottage, including minor elevation and internal modifications; (ii) adjustment of existing private access roads; (iii) a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area; and (iv) all other associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360326

• 22 Mar 2023Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with dry bedded area for the housing of livestock, together with other associated ancillary site works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23122

• 5 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a new building for the purpose of intake of raw material together with all associated site works. The site in question has an EPA IED Licence re. no. P1021-01

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21256

• 28 Feb 2020N/a

  for development consisting of the construction of a 36 metre high free standing lattice communications structure and its associated antennae, communication dishes and ground equipment, within a 2.4m high palisade fence compound

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2063

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of (a) to erect a four storey extension to the existing mill, (b) to erect a single storey detached maintenance building and (c) to relocate 3 no. bunded silos and all associated site works. The site in question has an EPA IED Licence Ref. No. P1021-01

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19285

• 30 Jul 2018Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to the side of existing semi-detached bungalow, demolition of garage to rear and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18315

• 29 Mar 2017Conditional

  to (a) increase the height of existing finished feed out-loading building from 17m to 20m in height, (b) extend existing finished feed out-loading building by constructing an extension to the east elevation (20m high and approx. floor area 200sqm), (c) increase the height of existing milling area building from 12m to 20m in height, (d) extend existing milling area building by constructing an extension to the east elevation (20m high and approx. floor area 200sqm), (e) revise the location of previously permitted sewage treatment unit, percolation area and oil water separator (granted under previous planning application reference no. 15/152), (f) permission is also sought to retain existing services building to the west elevation of existing mill (g) together with all associated site works. The site in question has an EPA IED Licence Ref. No. P1021-01. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17127

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 Shinan.

Recorded monuments

• CV023-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 24.3m) enclosed by a low earthen bank. Slight break in bank at E may represent original entrance. Inside the bank at W is a shallow, roughly parallel-sided depression extending from E-W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Shinan.

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.

No address of the register names Shinan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Shinan

Area

1,029,934 m² (102.99 ha, 254.5 acres)

Civil parish

Shercock, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Shercock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shercock electoral division: 1,276 people in 476 households; 66% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Darkley, Latterriff, Lecks, Lisdrumskea, Lisnadarragh

Placenames

Shinan 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.