Shanacool
Shanacool is a townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Decies Without Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is An tSeanchúil.
- Area
- 70.3 ha
- 174 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,280 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanacool, from 7 m² to 225,858 m² (22.59 ha, 55.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Shanacool 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Oct 2023Conditional
Section 254 Licence for the erection or new overground fibre optic cables on existing timber poles. 2023WD0741
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 23307
23 Mar 2023N/a
The construction of a single-storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house including alterations to existing dwelling house, along with all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2360103
11 Jun 2021Conditional
construct a single storey storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, splayed entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21546
28 May 2021Conditional
PERMISSION CONSEQUENT (on file ref. 21/52) is required for construction of a new dwelling, garage, new shared access driveway and entrance, site works, wastewater treatment system, percolcation area and all ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21492
29 Jan 2021Conditional
outline planning permission required for construction of a new storey and a half style dwelling, garage, new shared access driveway and entrance, site works, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary works at
Outline permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2152
1 Nov 2019Conditional
(1) retention planning permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the eastern side of the house (2) the removal of an existing extension to the western site of the house (3) planning permission for the construction of an extension to the western side of the house along with all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19828
12 May 2017Conditional
for a single storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 17322
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Shanacool.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shanacool.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shanacool.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Shanacool, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shanacool.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Shanacool with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Shanacool · An tSeanchúil
- Area
- 703,284 m² (70.33 ha, 173.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stradbally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Without Drum
- Electoral division
- Fox's Castle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 505 people lived in 180 households in the Fox's Castle electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykeroge Big, Ballyvoyle, Castlequarter, Durrow, Kilminnin Upper, Knockadrumalea, Millerstown, Sheskin
- Placenames
- Shanacool 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.