Shanaghan

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanaghan, from 80 m² to 135,754 m² (13.58 ha, 33.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Shanaghan 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.

• 18 Mar 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING, DETACHED BUNGALOW HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DETACHED, DORMER BUNGALOW HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND THE RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560373

• 12 Jan 2025Conditional

  RENOVATIONS TO AN EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE WITH CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR, INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560013

• 11 Dec 2024N/a

  RENOVATIONS TO AN EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE WITH CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR, INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462038

• 5 Aug 2022Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS TO ALL FACADES (2) INCLUDE FOR NEW INCREASED RIDGE LINE (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251330

• 15 May 2019Conditional

  COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 04/2701

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950737

• 15 May 2018N/a

  COMPLETION OF HOUSE AND GARAGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF:04/2701 AND CHANGE OF DESIGN TO HOUSE AND GARAGE FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF:04/2701 AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850769

• 16 Nov 2017N/a

  COMPLETION OF HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/2701 AND CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/2701 AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751735

• 6 Sept 2017N/a

  COMPLETION OF HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/2701 AND CHANGE OF HOUSE AND GARAGE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/2701 AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751365

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: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
• Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190

Recorded monuments

• DG073-029001 Church
  Description

  Marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps as the site of 'Loughros Church' (DG073-029001-) with a burial ground (DG073-029003-) marked to the SSE on the 2nd edition. No trace of either a church or burial ground survives. A short distance to the SSE is St. Shanaghan's well (DG073-029002-). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 38) The site is located in rough grazing land to the E of Shanaghan Lough. 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. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG073-029002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps as the site of 'Loughros Church' (DG073-029001-) with a burial ground (DG073-029003-) marked to the SSE on the 2nd edition. No trace of either a church or burial ground survives. A short distance to the SSE is St. Shanaghan's well (DG073-029002-). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 38) The site is located in rough grazing land to the E of Shanaghan Lough. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as ' "In close contiguity to the site of St. Shanaghan's Church is a beautiful well, which is believed to have been formerly venerated for ages as St. Shanaghan's Well, and though well cared, it shows every sign of antiquity." This is from Dr. Maguire. It is in Ardara parish, but I know nothing further about it. There are several saints called Seanan given in the Martyrologies, and one St. Seanachan, a bishop and abbot of Imleach Iubhair, under 11th December' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 151). 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: 03 November 2011

• DG073-029003 Graveyard
  Description

  Marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps as the site of 'Loughros Church' (DG073-029001-) with a burial ground (DG073-029003-) marked to the SSE on the 2nd edition. No trace of either a church or burial ground survives. A short distance to the SSE is St. Shanaghan's well (DG073-029002-). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 38) The site is located in rough grazing land to the E of Shanaghan Lough. 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. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1840, having extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof, roped and pegged to stone pegs to eaves and gables, with rendered chimneystacks; pitched slate roof to extension. Smooth-rendered walls with square-headed openings having concrete sills, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and half-glazed timber battened door. Square-plan rendered piers with gnome finials and double-leaf steel gate. Single-storey outbuilding to side of house.

• House, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1900, having recent glazed extension to rear. Pitched straw-thatched roof with mesh over, roped and pegged to stone pegs to eaves and gables, and having rendered chimneystacks to gables. Roughcast lime-rendered rubble stone walls with plinth course. Square-headed openings with painted concrete sills and replacement timber casement windows and glazed timber door.

• Outbuilding, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, built c.1860. Pitched straw-thatched roof with rounded profile, thatch having mesh over and roped and pegged to stone pegs to eaves and gables. Rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber battened doors; possible small window opening to road gable, now blocked. Sited at right angle to road and to side of single-storey house of possibly similar date, latter having rear wall to road.

• House, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1900, having full-length addition to rear (northwest). Pitched straw-thatched roof with mesh over, roped and tied to stone pegs at eaves and gable, with two rendered chimneystacks; flat felt roof to extension. Lime-rendered rubble stone walls; roughcast to addition. Square-headed openings with painted concrete sills and replacement timber casement windows and timber door. Outbuildings to rear.

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 Shanaghan, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1125 (ZIP).

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

Name

Shanaghan · Seanachán

Area

800,759 m² (80.08 ha, 197.87 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Glengesh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

694 people lived in 263 households in the Glengesh electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellaganny, Crumlin, Drumalough or Lough Hill, Kinnoghty

Placenames

Shanaghan 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.