Shanonagh

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanonagh, from 277 m² to 676,269 m² (67.63 ha, 167.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Shanonagh 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.

• 25 Apr 2025Conditional

  Amendments to the design of an approved solar farm development on lands within the townlands of Parcellstown, Shanonagh, Clondardis, Co. Westmeath (Westmeath County Council Planning Reg. Ref. 22/113). The proposed amendments include an extension of the red line boundary to provide for access from the approved Clondardis solar farm to the east (Westmeath County Council Planning Reg. Ref. 20/6132); Minor revisions to access tracks throughout the site; Revised perimeter fencing; Inclusion of a new perimeter gate; A new bridge crossing an existing arterial drain within the site; Underground power and communication cables and ducts; An optimised Solar PV Panel configuration within the same areas of the site as the previously permitted solar farm to comprise 238,362 square meters of solar panels; Solar panel array height increase from 3m to 3.2m; Rerouting of the permitted access track within the northern parcel; Revised hardstanding and electrical skid provision; Removal of on-site substation; Removal of storage container; Minor red line boundary revisions and all other associated ancillary development. Permission is also sought to extend the life span of the consented development from 35 years to 40 years.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560201

• 14 Mar 2022Conditional

  The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a Solar PV Energy Development with a total site area of 42.06 hectares, to include a single storey electrical substation building, inverter substations, modules, solar PV ground mounted on support structures, a temporary construction compound, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works. The solar farm will be operational for 35-years.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22113

• 11 Feb 2022N/a

  The development will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 42.06 hectares, to include a single storey electrical substation building, inverter substations, modules, solar PV ground mounted on support structures, a temporary construction compound, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works. The solar farm will be operational for 35 years

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2258

• 23 Sept 2021Conditional

  The development consists of the construction of a two-storey dwelling and detached garage with wastewater treatment system with polishing filter including site entrance from existing road, boundary treatments and all associated site works above and below ground

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21519

• 9 Nov 2020Refused

  Permission to construct a dwelling house and detached garage with treatment system and percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206316

• 27 Jun 2019Conditional

  for the existing slurry storage tank and all ancillary site services

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 196173

• 27 Jun 2017N/a

  (1) Pig finishing unit to accommodate 1920 pigs (2) 4 no feed silos, (3) upgrade existing farm entrance onto public road and (4) all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176188

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• WM018-156 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A house annotated as 'Shandona' on the current ed. OS 6-inch map may have been built on the site of the medieval castle of 'Sendonagh' described as a 'ruinous castle' in a land grant of 1609. In this year Sir Robert Nugent of Walshestown Castle (WM018-155----) was granted 'in Sendonagh [Shanonagh] otherwise Old-Sonday, a ruinous castle, 40 messuages, 40 gardens, and a plowland containing 140a arable great measure, 40a pasture, 40a moor, 40a bog, 40a meadow, 40a marsh' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 196). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 14 November 2017

• WM018-172 Enclosure
  Description

  Circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 36m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 24/08/2021. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photograph taken 24/08/2021 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 9 November 2021

• WM018-173 Enclosure
  Description

  Circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 18m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 22/07/2021. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photograph taken 22/07/2021 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 9 November 2021

• WM018-174 Earthwork
  Description

  Roughly rectangular-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 58m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 22/07/2021. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photograph taken 22/07/2021 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 9 November 2021

Architectural heritage

• Shanonagh Bridge, bridge, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump-backed canal bridge previously carrying main road over Royal Canal, built c.1808. Bridge now gives access to a modern bungalow and has been superceded by (adjacent) modern concrete bridge with steel railings. Constructed of coursed dressed limestone with ashlar limestone parapets and detailing, including projecting string course at parapet base level/road level and voussoirs to arch. Western parapet wall damaged and repaired with concrete cavity blocks. Bridge has incised benchmark dating to the original Ordnance Survey work in the 1830s. Tow path runs under bridge to east side. Located to the west of Mullingar Town on main Ballymahon Road.

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).

No address of the register names Shanonagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Shanonagh · Seandomhnach

Area

2,159,858 m² (215.99 ha, 533.71 acres)

Civil parish

Templeoran, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Greenpark, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaclin, Ballyote, Clondardis, Coolnahay, Drumloose, Parcellstown, Tuitestown

Placenames

Shanonagh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.