Caher (Murphy)

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher (Murphy), from 22 m² to 672,862 m² (67.29 ha, 166.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Flagmount Settlement Plan, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Flagmount Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Flagmount Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.4Maritime / Harbour (Seaport/Harbour)
  Flagmount Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Mar 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23141

• 22 Feb 2022N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, new entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22154

• 10 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17535

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cahermurphy Wood 000022

Recorded monuments

• CL013-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the edge of a shelf in NW-sloping rocky pasture, overlooking Lough Graney c. 300m to the W. Partly hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. This oval-shaped area (max. int. diams. 46.5m NW-SE; 31.2m NE-SW; max. ext. dims. 49.2m NW-SE; 36.5m NE-SW) is defined by an earthen bank (max. Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 0.2-1.1m) which is steepest and highest externally from SW-W-NE, making use of the natural shelf here, and upon which some trees and bushed grow. In places, the bank is faced both internally and externally by vertically set sandstone slabs (max. H 0.4m). There is a – possibly later widened – original entrance gap (Wth 4m) in the SE sector. On the natural slope outside the bank at NW is a cluster of rock outcrop boulders (max. H 2.8m; L 1.8m; Wth 0.6m).    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott   Date of upload: 2-10-2025

• CL013-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NW-facing pasture slope (between the 400’ and 500’ contours), overlooking Lough Graney to the W. A circular area (int. diams. 34m E-W; 33.40m N-S; ext. diams. 42.20m E-W; 39.10m N-S) is enclosed by an earthen bank which is best preserved from NE-E (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.3m; Wth at top 2.1m; Wth at base c. 7m, including slippage from the bank) and lowest between NW and N (int. H 0.-5-0.10m; ext. H 0.2m). There is an entrance gap (Wth 5.2m) at SE. The interior slopes down from SE to NW, is free of vegetation, and contains exposed rock outcrop in the SW sector. The monument is fenced along its outer perimeter with a gate at NW providing access to allow the interior to be grazed.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy   Date of upload: 2-10-2025

• CL020-001 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.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caher (Murphy).

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

At the centre of the townland of Caher (Murphy), 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caher (Murphy).

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.

No address of the register names Caher (Murphy) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Caher (Murphy) · Cathair Mhurchú

Area

2,376,426 m² (237.64 ha, 587.23 acres)

Civil parish

Feakle, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Upper

Electoral division

Cahermurphy, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Corlea Beg, Drummin, Flagmount, Islandmore, Pollaghanumera, Slieveanore

Placenames

Caher (Murphy) 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.