Shankill Upper

98 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shankill Upper, from 52 m² to 98,033 m² (9.8 ha, 24.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Shankill Upper 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 May 2026N/a

  for retention of (i) expansion of the range of activities at the existing dog grooming business (permitted under Reg. Ref. 18/225) to include doggy day-care use (for up to a maximum of 9 dogs per day) and kennelling use (for up to a maximum of 3 dogs per day); (ii) construction of a free-standing single-storey timber cabin (12.9 sqm) for use as storage relating to the existing dog grooming activity on site; (iii) construction of an additional free-standing single-storey garage structure (119.3 sqm), with solar panels and a wc, for use as part-ancillary storage (69.4 sqm GIA) in relation to the residential use on site, and part-doggy day care facility (35.3 sqm GIA) in relation to the existing business on site; (iv) use of part of the rear garden (155 sqm) as a dog exercise area; and (v) a single free-standing signage board (1220 mm wide x 685 mm high) at a maximum height of 1,340mm

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2660233

• 23 Feb 2026Conditional

  to retain and continue minor alterations to exterior of existing detached dwelling and all associated site works- SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 267

• 12 Dec 2025Conditional

  for detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560734

• 17 Aug 2021Conditional

  retain and continue alterations to external elevations of new extension (previous planning reg no 20/424) and carry out associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21518

• 23 Sept 2020Conditional

  to 1. demolish single storey extensions at existing dwelling, 2. construct two storey and single storey extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling, 3. and carry out associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20424

• 30 May 2018Conditional

  to retain (a) change of use from domestic garage to dog grooming facility and (b) existing signage and all ancillary works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 18225

• 25 Apr 2018Conditional

  for alteration and extension of existing single storey dwelling; works to include provision of pitch roof to existing garage, associated site development works, installation of new effluent treatment plant and soil polishing filter

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18173

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  1. Erect fully serviced extension to the south elevation of existing dwelling 2. Demolish existing sunroom on the north elevation and construct fully serviced living room and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17541

• 26 Apr 2017Conditional

  for a change of house type from previously approved dwelling; Planning Ref. 11/348. The proposed dwelling is part two storey, part single storey. The revised proposals include alterations to the site layout plan

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17166

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 Shankill Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shankill Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2131 (ZIP).

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 Shankill Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Shankill Upper

Area

1,115,686 m² (111.57 ha, 275.69 acres)

Civil parish

Annagelliff, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Clonervy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonervy electoral division: 919 people in 289 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonervy, Drumoghra, Drumryan, Poles, Pottle, Shankill Lower

Placenames

Shankill Upper 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.