Shanballymore is a small village in north Cork, in the farmland between Buttevant and Doneraile, close to the Awbeg River. The area was Swift and Spenser country in the 16th and 17th centuries; Edmund Spenser wrote parts of The Faerie Queene at nearby Kilcolman Castle.
The village itself is compact — a church, a small number of houses, a rural landscape that hasn't changed enormously in two centuries. Buttevant is 5km west. Doneraile is 5km east. Neither is far.
On the R522 between Buttevant and Doneraile in north Cork.