Shancrock

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shancrock, from 1,043 m² to 877,747 m² (87.77 ha, 216.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Shancrock 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 Shancrock 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Ben Bulben, Gleniff and Glenade Complex SAC 000623
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ben Bulben, Gleniff And Glenade Complex 000623

Recorded monuments

• LE003-012 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  At the summit of a ridge running N from Truskmore. Marked only on the 1907 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (Leitrim 003) on the county boundary with Sligo where it is described in italic lettering as a 'Ple of Stones'. This is a small modern pile of stones (diam. 1.5m, H 0.5m), and it is the same as (SL006-044----). Compiled by: Michael Moore, Date of revised upload: 22 December 2015

• SL006-040001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL006-040002 Hut site
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL006-042001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL006-042002 Hut site
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL006-044 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Listed in the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Cairn Possible' in both. Not indicated on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is one of a series of eight cairns (SL006-043----; SL006-044----; SL006-047----; SL006-048----; SL006-049----; SL006-050----; SL006-051----; SL006-063----) which mark the boundary between counties Sligo and Leitrim in inhospitable mountainous terrain. Located on the summit of a ridge running N from Truskmore Mountain. This is a small modern-looking pile of stones (diam. 1.5m, H 0.5m). This is the same boundary cairn as LE003-012----. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 24 July 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shancrock.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Shancrock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Shancrock · An Seanchnoc

Area

3,217,509 m² (321.75 ha, 795.06 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Rossinver East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rossinver East electoral division: 191 people in 67 households; 89% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 27% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cleighragh (Co. Leitrim), Clogh, Curraghmore, Edencullentragh or Hollyfield, Gorteen, Keeloges, Larganavaddoge (Co. Leitrim), Mullanfad, Shesknan (Co. Leitrim)

Placenames

Shancrock 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.