Caheraphuca
Caheraphuca is a townland in the civil parish of Inchicronan, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Cathair an Phúca.
- Area
- 123.8 ha
- 306 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 3,207 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- R4
- Strategic Residential Reserve
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caheraphuca, from 4 m² to 300,135 m² (30.01 ha, 74.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R4Strategic Residential Reserve
Crusheen Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Crusheen 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
2 Sept 2026N/a
to construct a new dwelling house and garage complete with a wastewater treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660572
11 May 2026Refused
for the construction of a new dwelling house and garage complete with a wastewater treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660305
5 Dec 2025Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560769
31 Jul 2025Conditional
to (a) demolish 2 no. existing concrete storage sheds (b) realign existing front boundary and create new site entrance (c) renovate and extend existing single storey private dwelling house, (d) new waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560467
16 Nov 2017Conditional
to construct 2 No. dwelling houses, and garages, entrances from public road, each with connection to public sewer, and all with associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Clare County Council, 17871
11 May 2017Conditional
to construct 2 No. dwelling houses and garages, entrances from public road, each with connection to public sewer and all with associated site works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 17349
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Caheraphuca.
Recorded monuments
- CL018-041 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.
- CL018-083 Fulacht fia
Description
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- CL018-087 Mass-rock
Description
A mass-rock was recorded in this townland (pers. comm. T. Coffey, SMR file) and listed as ‘Mass rock, possible’ in the RMP (1996). A much overgrown block of limestone outcrop (max. H 2.4m; L 5.2m; Wth 3m). A link road to a roundabout just W of Crusheen during the development of the N18 Gort to Crusheen roadway in 2010 appears to have cut through this area of rock outcrop. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 8 October 2014
- CL018-096 Fulacht fia
Description
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- CL018-097 Fulacht fia
Description
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- CL018-107 Furnace
Description
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- CL026-011 Enclosure
Description
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- CL026-013 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a hillock in pasture. A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 30m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a stone spread (at N: Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m; at SE: Wth 8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.2m) NNW-SW, which is reduced to an outer scarp elsewhere. The original outer face of the wall (H 0.8m) survives NNW-E and the stone spread is overlain by a stone wall on its inner edge NNW-SSE. The interior slopes down to S and contains an oval-shaped house (CL026-013002-) (int. dims.16m E-W; 8m N-S). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 May 2017
- CL026-013002 House - indeterminate date
Description
Situated in the interior of a cashel (CL026-013001-). An oval-shaped house (int. dims.16m E-W; 8m N-S) defined by a wall spread (Wth 2.2-6m; int. H 0.9-1m; ext. H 0.2m at S to 1m generally) with good inner facing (H 1m) at E and S. It has no visible entrance or other feature. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 May 2017
- CL026-015 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Description
See attached document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Caheraphuca wedge tomb is a national monument in state care, no. 466. CL026-015----_01.pdf CL026-015----_01.jpg View of wedge tomb from NW. Date of upload: 30 December 2011
- CL026-128 Fulacht fia
Description
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- CL026-135 Fulacht fia
Description
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- CL026-136 Fulacht fia
Description
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- CL026-143001 Fulacht fia
Description
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- CL026-143002 Fulacht fia
Description
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- CL026-143003 Burnt mound
Description
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- CL026-143004 Burnt mound
Description
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- CL026-143005 Burnt mound
Description
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- CL026-143006 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
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- CL026-143007 Fulacht fia
Description
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- CL026-143008 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
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- CL026-143009 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
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- CL026-143010 Fulacht fia
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.
- CL026-143011 Burnt mound
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 Caheraphuca.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Caheraphuca, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caheraphuca.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Caheraphuca with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Caheraphuca · Cathair an Phúca
- Area
- 1,237,622 m² (123.76 ha, 305.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inchicronan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Crusheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,080 people lived in 379 households in the Crusheen electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 60% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyline, Carrahil, Cloonagowan, Clooneen, Crusheen, Cullenagh, Gortlurkaun
- Placenames
- Caheraphuca 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.