Shankoagh

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shankoagh, from 1,459 m² to 146,554 m² (14.66 ha, 36.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Shankoagh 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.

• 4 Aug 2020Conditional

  to construct slipway and fishing dock onto the River Suck with access roadway and parking area along with associated siteworks at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20296

• 8 Feb 2019Conditional

  demolish existing house and construct replacement dwelling house and upgrade existing septic tank system with proprietary treatment system and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1952

• 31 Jan 2019N/a

  to demolish existing house and construct replacement dwelling house and upgrade existing septic tank system with new proprietary treatment system and percolation area and carryout all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1936

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: Corliskea/Trien/Cloonfelliv Bog SAC 002110
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Corliskea/Trien/Cloonfelliv Bog 002110

Recorded monuments

• RO027-084 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope on the W side of the NW-SE River Suck which is c. 40m to the NE. D-shaped grass and rush-covered area (int. dims 13.4m NNE-SSW; 11m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.7-1.9m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.6m) and rush-covered fosse (Wth of base 1.2m; D 0.2m) SSW-W-NNE. It is cut by a NNE-SSW field bank at E, and does not survive E of this feature. Children's burial ground (RO034-105----) is c. 210m to the SE, and earthwork (RO027-085----) is c. 120m to the E on the other side of the river. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO034-002 Promontory fort - inland
  Description

  Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 63-4), and situated on low-lying ground on the W bank of the N-S River Suck which loops sharply to the E around the monument. Grass-covered D-shaped area with some bushes (dims 50m N-S; 32.5m E-W) defined by the river on all sides except the W where there is an earthen bank (at N: Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.55m; at S: Wth 9m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.75m) and a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8.6-11.2m; Wth of base 2.8-3.2m; D 0.6m). There is no identifiable original entrance and spoil from river drainage has been deposited on the river bank at N, while ther river is eroding the perimeter at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO034-105 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope of a NW-SE section of River Suck valley with the river c. 60m to the NE. This is an oval grass-covered mound (dims 9m NW-SE; 4m NE-SW; max. H 0.6m) which is truncated at NW by a field wall. There are no visible grave-markers, but it is known locally as a children's burial ground. Enclosure (RO027-084----) is c. 210m to the NW, and earthwork (RO027-085----) is c. 130m to the NNW, on the other side of the river. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shankoagh, 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 Shankoagh.

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 Shankoagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Shankoagh · Seanchuach

Area

1,506,945 m² (150.69 ha, 372.37 acres)

Civil parish

Drumatemple, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Ballintober, the unit of the census

Census 2022

855 people lived in 317 households in the Ballintober electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adragool, Cleaboy, Cloonadarragh (Co. Galway), Cloonfad, Frenchlawn, Laragh and Ross, Willsbrook

Placenames

Shankoagh 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.