Caherkine

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherkine, from 25 m² to 351,495 m² (35.15 ha, 86.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Caherkine in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

No planning application touches the townland of Caherkine in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Caherkine.

Recorded monuments

• CL042-201 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low rise in pasture. The SE arc of a subcircular enclosure defined by a low earthen bank from NE to W visible on Google Earth (Imagery date: 10 February 2021) abuts a NE-SW modern field boundary. A contemporary field boundary abuts the perimeter at SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 July 2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caherkine.

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 Caherkine, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_694 (ZIP).

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 Caherkine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Caherkine · Cathair Choinn

Area

646,195 m² (64.62 ha, 159.68 acres)

Civil parish

Tomfinlough, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Lower

Electoral division

Tomfinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

681 people lived in 233 households in the Tomfinlough electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherscooby, Mausnarylaan, Mooghaun North, Snugborough

Placenames

Caherkine 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.