Shancarrigeen or Oldrock

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shancarrigeen or Oldrock, from 698 m² to 83,914 m² (8.39 ha, 20.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Shancarrigeen or Oldrock 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.

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  development consisting of retention of the following: (1) Front entrance porch (2) Utility room to the rear and attached to and part of my dwelling house (3) Domestic garage to the northern side of existing dwelling house (4) Conservatory attached to and part of my dwelling house to the southern side (5) Storage shed to the rear of the garage, for the storage of garden equipment and tools (6) Fuel storage shed and additional domestic garage and work shop to the rear of dwelling house and (7) an entrance gate to the rear yard of my dwelling on to a minor road linked to the R296 and all associated works

  Retention, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 22441

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 Shancarrigeen or Oldrock.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-136 Moated site
  Description

  In level pasture, on the S bank of a meander of the Owenmore River. A subrectangular area (22.5m N-S; 27.5m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m) on the S, W and N sides and by the river on the E side. The faint trace of an outer fosse is evident as a band of dark vegetation on the W and possibly the S side in an aerial photograph (IASAP, G 3037011-2). A rectangular feature (5m N-S; 7m E-W) is also visible in the aerial photograph in the N half of the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL033-139 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a ridge overlooking the Owenmore River to NE. A circular area (int. diam. 19.5m) enclosed by remains of two earthen banks with an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2m) is evident all round. The fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.5m) and low remains of the outer bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.4m) are evident only along the N arc. The entrance (Wth 2m) is at SE with a causeway across the fosse. The N half of the interior is partially quarried into. A possible cairn (SL033-201----) lies c. 70m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL039-158001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on the SW edge of a flat expanse of wet ground covered with rushes. A large prominent circular mound (16.3m N-S; 17m E-W; H 1m at N, 0.5m at S) of heat-shattered stones and dark soil. Another possible fulacht fia (SL039-158002-) lies 12m to NNE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL039-158002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on the SW edge of a flat expanse of wet ground covered with rushes. A barely discernible irregular rise (c. 10m N-S; c. 6m E-W) of burnt material. Another possible fulacht fia (SL039-158001-) lies 12m to SSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shancarrigeen or Oldrock.

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 Shancarrigeen or Oldrock, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shancarrigeen or Oldrock.

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 Shancarrigeen or Oldrock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Shancarrigeen or Oldrock · An Seancharraigín

Area

832,923 m² (83.29 ha, 205.82 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonoghil, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Cloonoghill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 119 households in the Cloonoghill electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardconnell, Ballynaglogh, Carrowkeel, Cloonahinshin, Cloonkeevy, Deechomade, Knocknakillew or Woodhill

Placenames

Shancarrigeen or Oldrock 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.