Caher (Power)
Townland in the civil parish of Feakle, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish An Chathair (Power)
- Area
- 128.4 ha
- 317 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 7,509 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher (Power), from 253 m² to 218,301 m² (21.83 ha, 53.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Caher Settlement Plan, Clare · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
Caher Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Caher Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Caher Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Caher Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O2Village Growth Area (General)
Caher Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Jan 2026N/a
for the construction of 1. an extension to existing dwelling house 2. elevation alterations to existing dwelling house 3. demolition of existing sheds 4. installation of a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 263
23 Jul 2023Conditional
for the development which will consist of the demolition of a single storey storage shed to rear of existing dwelling and construct single storey extension in its place including all associated site works.
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360267
6 Aug 2021Conditional
to make alterations to two existing houses; provide link between them; demolish an existing structure; change the use from residential-Post Office to residential-Air B&B, and upgrade the existing wastewater management system
Permission · Clare County Council, 21837
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
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
Recorded monuments
- CL020-009 Children's burial ground
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 (Power).
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caher (Power).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Caher (Power) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Caher (Power) · An Chathair (Power)
- Area
- 1,284,378 m² (128.44 ha, 317.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Feakle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Electoral division
- Derrynagittagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Derrynagittagh electoral division: 147 people in 62 households; 90% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caher (Rice), Crossderry, Derrynagittagh (Purcell), Knockbeha, Leaghort, Leaghort Beg, Leaghort More
- Placenames
- Caher (Power) 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.