Shanonagh
Townland in the civil parish of Templeoran, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Seandomhnach
Parcel 91307
- Area
- 577,854 m² (57.79 ha, 142.79 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it, 1,018 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Shanonagh
Planning applications on this parcel
19 Feb 2026Conditional
the construction of a single storey extension (93.5 sqm) to the rear of the existing dwelling. The proposed extension will consists of an open plan kitchen, dining, and living, along with a pantry, utility room, and plant room. Permission is also sought for works to the existing dwelling for the demolition of the existing attached domestic storage structure (10 sqm) and rebuild as is to accommodate a habitable bathroom (7.9 sqm), together with an increase in the overall height and the formation of a parapet roof to an overall height of 3.1 m. Permission is sought for the construction of a new domestic vehicular entrance onto the adjoining public road located on the south-east side of the site, together with the closure of the existing domestic vehicular entrance and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660064
27 Jan 2026N/a
Permission is sought for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling. The proposed extension will provide an open plan kitchen, dining, and living area measuring 51.6 sqm, along with a pantry (3.9 sqm), utility room (4.7 sqm), and plant room (3.7 sqm). Permission is also sought for alterations to the existing dwelling, specifically to the current storage area. These alterations include the installation of a new window on the west-facing façade (side elevation) for ventilation purposes. The storage area will also undergo an increase in floor-to-ceiling height from 1.7 m to 2.4 m and will be finished with a flat roof. In addition, permission is sought for the construction of a new domestic entrance onto adjoining public road located on the southeast side of the site and all associated site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660019
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 around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WM018-083 Barrow - mound barrow
Description
Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 38) as following: 'Very low, poorly defined mound with markedly oval ground-plan (Diam. 5m N-S x 9m E-W) on a low glacial knoll in undulating pastureland. Mound reaches a height of up to 0.37m on S side, where its edge is most clearly defined. An ASI fieldworker in 18/3/75 recorded ‘a large stone beside the mound on the NE’, although a colleague on 15/4/81 added that this ‘large stone or small boulder lying just NE of the mound does not appear to be of any significance’. This stone was not seen by the writer and appears to have been since removed. It is uncertain whether this mound is natural or artificial and it is accepted as a possible burial mound only on account of its proximity to a ring-/stepped-barrow (WM018-082----), lying on another knoll 135m to NE. This writer concurs with the concluding observations of the ASI fieldworker who visited the site on 15/4/81: ‘The mound is quite low and rather insignificant. No real evidence that it is an antiquity... The precise nature of the mound is not clear’. Enclosure: About 64m to S of mound is part of another curvilinear earthwork comprising an arc of broad bank 57m in length up to 5m in width, running from E to W, then veering to S, with a 2m-wide gap near the S end, on the S side of which another bank appears to run off to the NW. If this curving bank represents a segment of circular earthwork, the remainder of this continued under the road that runs alongside the field and into a ploughed field on the other side, where it appears to have been removed. The inside of this enclosure appears to have been slightly dished, as the bank rises 0.9m above the interior but only 0.7m above external ground level'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 216 ha
- 534 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 3,583 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Shanonagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- 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.