Shancough

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shancough, from 648 m² to 186,965 m² (18.7 ha, 46.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Shancough 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Shancough in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Shancough.

Recorded monuments

• SL035-051 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, straddling the summit of a ridge. An oval raised area (64m NW-SE; 32m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 2.75m), apart from a short section at SE where the scarp has been removed due to a small quarry pit (diam. 6m). The base of the scarp is surrounded by a gently sloping platform (Wth 10-14m) which is in turn defined by a stone-lined scarp (H 1.3m) SE-NE. Drystone field boundary walls have been constructed against the face of the outer scarp at SSE and another lies along the line of the now absent scarp NE-SE. Drystone walls abut the outer scarp at W, NNW, N, NE and SE. Known locally as a 'fort'. 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

• SL035-052001 Church
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a rise with commanding views of the surrounding countryside and within an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL035-052004-). The roofless ruin of a rectangular church (ext. 17.5m E-W; 7.6m N-S) built of uncoursed limestone rubble bonded in a lime mortar. The walls have a slight batter and rest on a foundation plinth. No gables are evident and both end-walls stand to the same height as the side-walls. The interior is divided into two compartments by a cross-wall. At the E end (int. 10.95m E-W; 5.5m N-S) is the church, while at the W end is a smaller vaulted room (int. 5.5m N-S; 3.65m E-W). The entrance doorway is in the N wall, at the NW corner of the church; its surround has a cusped pointed arch with a chamfer, but its jambs are missing. The church is lit by three single-light windows, one each in the N, E and S walls. The light of the E window has an ogee-arch whilst the S window has a rounded arch. The lintelled doorway into the vaulted room is near the S end of its E wall. The room is covered by a rounded wicker-centred vault, and lit by a single-light window in its N and S walls. On the exterior of the S wall and just E of the window lighting the room, is a feature consisting of two close-set corbels arranged in the manner of a 'box machicolation' but which could be the base of a latrine chute (M. A. Timoney 2002b, 57). Lying on the ground outside the SW corner of the building is a collection of loose stones including one of the jambstones from the entrance doorway. The ruin is that of the late medieval parish church of Shancough. The church lies off-centre to the NW within a rectangular enclosure (65m NW-SE; 40m NE-SW) (SL035-052003-). This enclosure is defined by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.85m) on the NW and SE sides and part of the NE side; elsewhere the remains of the bank are topped by a drystone wall. The NW, NE and SE sides are straight but the SW side kinks inwards at the W corner. There are numerous small breaks (Wth 0.8m to 1.1m) in the bank. Traces of internal and external revetment of limestone slabs are evident, especially on the NW and NE sides. The undulating interior is divided roughly in half by a NNE-SSW drystone wall incorporating the E gable of the church. A 'furnace bottom' was noted in this wall during a previous site inspection in 1993 (SMR (1989) file). This area may have functioned as a graveyard though no graveyard is named on the OS 6-inch maps and there is no evidence of burials. A souterrain (SL035-052002-) is located 31.5m to NNE of the church and another (SL035-052005-) is 50m to WNW. 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

• SL035-052002 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, on a NE-facing slope, 31.5m NNE of Shancough church (SL035-052001-) and within the NE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL035-052004-). A lintelled opening (Wth 1.2m; H 0.75m) reveals a stone-lined passage (L 4.5m; max. H 1.25m) roofed with lintels. The passage extends in a SW direction towards the church and terminates where blocked by collapsed earth. A second souterrain (SL035-052005-) lies c. 50m WNW of the church. 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

• SL035-052003 Enclosure
  Description

  This is a large rectangular enclosure (int. dims. 62.7m x 38.9m) surrounding Shancough Church (SL035-052001-). Its enclosing element is a sod-covered stone wall (T 1.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.65m) with an inner and outer facing of limestone slabs. There is an entrance (Wth 2.4m) on the N side. A furnace bottom was noted in the W wall. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL035-052004 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Straddling the broad summit of a high rise. A roughly rectangular area (115m NW-SE; 71m NE-SW) defined by an earth and stone scarp (H 1.7m) on the SE and SW sides and by the remains of a bank topped by a drystone wall on the NW side. The NE side is defined by a steep natural slope. Traces of an external stone revetment are evident in places along the scarp on the SW side where three to four courses of limestone rubble-walling are evident. On the NW side three limestone slabs (H c. 1m; Wth c. 1.2m; T c. 0.03m) also indicate the remains of the revetment. The interior is undulating. The late medieval parish church of Shancough (SL035-052001-) lies roughly within the centre of the interior and is surrounded by a rectangular enclosure (SL035-052003-) which occupies most of the S half of the enclosure. There are two souterrains, one (SL035-052005-) in the NW quadrant and the other (SL035-052002-) in the NE quadrant. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 404), 'St. Patrick ordained Ailbe an archpresbyter in Senchua'. 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

• SL035-052005 Souterrain
  Description

  In the NW quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL035-052004-), immediately inside the enclosing scarp at WNW and 50m WNW of Shancough church (SL035-052001-). The entrance is blocked by stone and earth but according to local information, the souterrain is stone-lined with a stone roof and c. 11m long extending in the direction of the church. A second souterrain (SL035-052002-) lies 31.5m NNE of the church. 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 Shancough.

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 Shancough, 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 Shancough.

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

Name

Shancough · Seanchuach

Area

595,587 m² (59.56 ha, 147.17 acres)

Civil parish

Shancough, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Killadoon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

276 people lived in 104 households in the Killadoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyculleen, Cabragh, Carrowcashel, Drumbeg North, Straduff, Tullynure

Placenames

Shancough 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.