# Caher (Murphy), Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Feakle, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Cathair Mhurchú. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,376,426 m² (237.64 ha, 587.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,121 m² (1.81 ha, 4.48 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Feakle, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/feakle.md - Barony: Tulla Upper - Electoral division: Cahermurphy, the unit of the census - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7590 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30441 - Centre: latitude 53.001687, longitude -8.647485 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher (Murphy), from 22 m² to 672,862 m² (67.29 ha, 166.27 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5444398: 672,862 m² (67.29 ha, 166.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5444398.md - Parcel 1509372: 339,359 m² (33.94 ha, 83.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1509372.md - Parcel 1453480: 172,596 m² (17.26 ha, 42.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453480.md - Parcel 6043974: 168,331 m² (16.83 ha, 41.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6043974.md - Parcel 1461738: 158,336 m² (15.83 ha, 39.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1461738.md - Parcel 1434215: 152,075 m² (15.21 ha, 37.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434215.md - Parcel 1519857: 148,766 m² (14.88 ha, 36.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1519857.md - Parcel 1512776: 88,888 m² (8.89 ha, 21.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512776.md - Parcel 1433943: 87,300 m² (8.73 ha, 21.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1433943.md - Parcel 2404041: 67,482 m² (6.75 ha, 16.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2404041.md - Parcel 2724011: 65,377 m² (6.54 ha, 16.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2724011.md - Parcel 3223677: 53,280 m² (5.33 ha, 13.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3223677.md - Parcel 1471458: 42,856 m² (4.29 ha, 10.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1471458.md - Parcel 1473129: 23,877 m² (2.39 ha, 5.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1473129.md - Parcel 1476840: 21,659 m² (2.17 ha, 5.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1476840.md - Parcel 1499392: 19,212 m² (1.92 ha, 4.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499392.md - Parcel 2404039: 17,030 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2404039.md - Parcel 1456158: 6,407 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1456158.md - Parcel 1435780: 4,880 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1435780.md - Parcel 2404136: 4,491 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2404136.md - Parcel 2640147: 3,306 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2640147.md - Parcel 1442817: 2,529 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442817.md - Parcel 3223673: 2,422 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3223673.md - Parcel 1517939: 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517939.md - Parcel 1490375: 1,682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1490375.md - Parcel 1458400: 1,471 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458400.md - Parcel 1440051: 1,297 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1440051.md - Parcel 5381991: 867 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5381991.md - Parcel 2640115: 398 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2640115.md - Parcel 6043955: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6043955.md - Parcel 6043972: 46 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6043972.md - Parcel 6195447: 22 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6195447.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Flagmount Settlement Plan, Clare; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - P1 Agriculture: Flagmount Settlement Plan, Clare; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - G1 Open Space (Open space, park): Flagmount Settlement Plan, Clare; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - N1.4 Maritime / Harbour (Seaport/Harbour): Flagmount Settlement Plan, Clare; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 9 Mar 2023, Clare County Council 23141: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23141/0 - 22 Feb 2022, Clare County Council 22154: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, new entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22154/0 - 10 Jul 2017, Clare County Council 17535: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17535/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA, site code 004168, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004168 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cahermurphy Wood, site code 000022 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL013-001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL013-001----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL013-002----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL020-001----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caher (Murphy). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/caher-murphy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/caher-murphy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/caher-murphy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Corlea Beg: https://everytownland.com/clare/corlea-beg.md - Drummin: https://everytownland.com/clare/drummin-31118.md - Flagmount: https://everytownland.com/clare/flagmount.md - Islandmore: https://everytownland.com/clare/islandmore-31413.md - Pollaghanumera: https://everytownland.com/clare/pollaghanumera.md - Slieveanore: https://everytownland.com/clare/slieveanore.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/caher-murphy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/caher-murphy