Shannon Oughter

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shannon Oughter, from 27 m² to 72,101 m² (7.21 ha, 17.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 97 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 29 Nov 2024Conditional

  to change of house design of previously granted dwelling PL22/378. The works will consist of revised floor plans, elevations and finishes, minor reduction in gross floor area and minor modifications to site layout to accommodate the new proposed dwelling. All associated site works, access, drainage, connection to public main, and garage remain the same as granted in PL22/378

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460446

• 15 Nov 2022Conditional

  development consequent following the grant of outline permission (Ref. PL 20/85) consisting of construction of a new dwelling house with connection to existing public services and all associated landscape works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22378

• 28 Sept 2022Conditional

  development consisting of construction of an extension to the front elevation (southern gable). Construction of new window opes to the side and rear gables. Alterations to the existing roof finishes to include provision of solar PV panels. All associated site development works deemed necessary.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22323

• 18 Oct 2021N/a

  development consisting of the construction of a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and percolation area and reconfiguration of existing driveway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21416

• 19 Feb 2021N/a

  development consisting of the construction of a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and percolation area and reconfiguration of existing driveway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2147

• 10 Jul 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the retention of a sunroom extension to south west elevation of existing house

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 20218

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  Development consisting of the following; construction of dwelling house with connection to public services and all associated site works on site

  Outline permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2085

• 9 Oct 2019Conditional

  Development consisting of retention of basement level of dwelling that consists of domestic garage attached to existing house permitted under Planning Permission PL10887 with associated works.

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 19421

• 9 Jul 2019Conditional

  Development consisting of construction of a single storey type domestic house, a new site entrance, construction of a domestic waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice standards together with all associated ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19278

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 Shannon Oughter.

Recorded monuments

• SL014-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In hilly fertile pasture, in an area known locally as Beachgreen Hill, due to its proximity of a flax mill. Oval-shaped area (33.7m N-S; 37.5m E-W) is enclosed from SW to SE by an internal fosse (Wth at E 7m; Wth at W 4.8m; max. D 0.26m), to the E and W by an external bank (int. H 0.15m; ext H 1.35m; Wth 3m) and by a scarp to the N and S. There is no evidence of an entrance feature. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL014-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On S downslope of a slight ridge, in undulating, rich pasture. An oval area (27.3m N-S; 24.7m E-W) is defined by a scarp (H 0.5m at E; 0.28m at W). Two short sections of bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.49m; Wth 0.6m) enclose the site at the SE and SW only. There is faint and intermittent trace of a fosse (Wth 2.1m) on all sides. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shannon Oughter, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1130 (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 Shannon Oughter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Shannon Oughter · Seanuamhain Uachtarach

Area

745,793 m² (74.58 ha, 184.29 acres)

Civil parish

Calry, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Drumcliff East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

764 people lived in 299 households in the Drumcliff East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barroe, Carncash, Doonally, Lisnalurg, Rathbraghan, Shannon Eighter

Placenames

Shannon Oughter 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.