# Cahermaan, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killeany, barony of Burren, Co. Clare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,752,525 m² (175.25 ha, 433.06 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 53,165 m² (5.32 ha, 13.14 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killeany, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/killeany.md
- Barony: Burren
- Electoral division: Mount Elva, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 91 people lived in 37 households in the Mount Elva electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5798
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30475
- Centre: latitude 53.043449, longitude -9.217845 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahermaan, from 615 m² to 199,099 m² (19.91 ha, 49.2 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1466787: 199,099 m² (19.91 ha, 49.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1466787.md
- Parcel 1458410: 195,291 m² (19.53 ha, 48.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458410.md
- Parcel 1505762: 188,579 m² (18.86 ha, 46.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1505762.md
- Parcel 1503200: 187,924 m² (18.79 ha, 46.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503200.md
- Parcel 1450164: 134,706 m² (13.47 ha, 33.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450164.md
- Parcel 1509377: 119,693 m² (11.97 ha, 29.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1509377.md
- Parcel 2725483: 116,321 m² (11.63 ha, 28.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2725483.md
- Parcel 1499399: 82,052 m² (8.21 ha, 20.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499399.md
- Parcel 2950197: 76,058 m² (7.61 ha, 18.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2950197.md
- Parcel 1517948: 69,382 m² (6.94 ha, 17.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517948.md
- Parcel 1436288: 68,052 m² (6.81 ha, 16.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1436288.md
- Parcel 1512785: 58,274 m² (5.83 ha, 14.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512785.md
- Parcel 1439949: 53,165 m² (5.32 ha, 13.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1439949.md
- Parcel 4870415: 39,395 m² (3.94 ha, 9.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4870415.md
- Parcel 2950214: 32,886 m² (3.29 ha, 8.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2950214.md
- Parcel 5131290: 19,490 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5131290.md
- Parcel 5131295: 18,239 m² (1.82 ha, 4.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5131295.md
- Parcel 1442417: 17,359 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442417.md
- Parcel 1506259: 17,343 m² (1.73 ha, 4.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1506259.md
- Parcel 1437674: 16,119 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1437674.md
- Parcel 5131299: 14,969 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5131299.md
- Parcel 1482612: 11,602 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482612.md
- Parcel 1435678: 9,394 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1435678.md
- Parcel 1477655: 8,141 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477655.md
- Parcel 1491938: 615 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1491938.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CL009-001007: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL009-001007-. On a slight rise, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-), on an undulating upland karst plateau in rough pasture, with views of Slieve Elva to the NW and an ENE–WSW ridge c. 325m to the S. Hachured on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and named ‘Cahermaan’ on the 1920 ed. and the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. Noting this cashel’s relatively small size, Westropp (1915, 54) and Robinson (1977) disagreed with the Ordnance Survey’s assignation of it as Cahermaan cashel (or ‘Cathair medhoin’ [Westropp]; ‘Cathair Meáin’ [Robinson]), ‘first named in 1390’ (Westropp 1915, 54). Both reasonably associate the name with a larger levelled enclosure (CL009-001008-) c. 350m to the NE. A suboval enclosure (22.9m N–S; 21m E–W) defined by a double-faced drystone wall (Wth c. 1.3–1.6m; H c. 1m) of uncoursed medium-sized stones (L 0.3–0.6m; H 0.3–0.4m). The inner facing is mostly concealed by a grass-covered deposit of stones (Wth c. 1.5–2m; H. 0.8–1.1m), except where the cashel wall is broken through by a modern entrance (Wth 1.3m) on the SSW side. The original cashel entrance is not discernible and there are no visible remains in the level, grass-covered interior, which appears to have been cleared. Westropp (1915, 54) described it as being under cultivation. A drystone wall (Wth c. 0.6m; max. H 0.6m) is built over the outer facing of the cashel wall. A rectilinear structure (c. 20m NNE–SSW; c. 2.5m WNW–ENE) with an entrance at its SSW end abuts the SE exterior of the cashel. This is marked as a sheep fold on the 1897 ed. of the OS 25-inch map, and is also drawn on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 October 2021
- CL009-001008: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL009-001008-. On a level karst plateau in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-), with higher ground c. 300m N and c. 325m S. To the S and SE there is a shallow gully running ENE–WSW. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. OS 6-inch maps. Westropp (1915, 54) and Robinson (1977) identify this as ‘Cahermaan’ (‘Cathair medhoin’ [Westropp]; ‘Cathair Meáin’ [Robinson]), ‘first named in 1390’ (Westropp 1915, 54). A poorly preserved subcircular cashel (42.1m E–W; 41.4m N–S) defined by a stone wall (est. Wth 2m; ext. H 1–1.2m; int. H 0.4–0.7m), the outer face of which can be traced almost all the way around, behind some outward tumble. The W–NW arc of the wall survives best; it has fallen out at the NW–N, and is in poor condition at the S. The top of the wall is overgrown with grass and is flush with or lower than the cashel interior. There is a gap at the SSW (est. Wth c. 8.5m) but this appears to be modern; no original entrance can be discerned. Just N of the cashel’s centre, at the highest point of the interior, there is a hut site (CL009-001041-). The interior of the cashel appears to have been quarried, leaving a long, shallow U-shaped depression (20m NE–SW; 10m NW–SE; D max. 0.9m). This may have destroyed the SSW section of the cashel wall. A drystone wall (L c. 18.5m) is built over the SSW–W arc of the cashel wall. A rectangular structure (L c. 7m; Wth c. 4m) is built against the ENE exterior of the cashel. A drystone wall extends ENE–WSW through the cashel, over the possible quarrying marks. This wall was not yet built in 1839 when the area was surveyed for the 1842 ed. OS 6-inch map, but was in place in 1895 (survey for the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map) following a substantial reorganisation of rundale field systems in the N of Cahermaan. A smaller enclosure (CL009-001007-) is located c. 350m to the SW. It is named ‘Cahermaan’ on the 1920 ed. OS 6-inch map and 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map; however, Westropp (1915, 54) is probably correct in assigning the label to cashel CL009-001008-. The Ordnance Survey Letters (1839) describe ‘Caher-Maan (Cathair Meadhoin), i.e. the Middle Caher’, as a ‘large fort’ (Comber 1997). Westropp (1915, 54) suggests the name originated from the cashel’s location approximately half-way between Cahermakerrila (CL009-001005-) and Cahermacnaghten (CL009-001010-) cashels, which lie 945m to the SW and 1.38km to the ENE respectively. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 October 2021
- CL009-001041: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL009-001041-. Situated at the centre of a cashel (CL009-001008-), at the highest point of the interior. A circular hut site (int. diam. 6.3m N–S) defined by a grass-covered wall (Wth 1.05m; H 0.3–0.4m), the building stones of which are visible in the N sector. A later, drystone field wall runs E-W over the interior. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 21 July 2022
- CL009-009: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL009-009----. On limestone pavement with some grass cover, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). The land rises immediately to the N and c. 80m to the S. Listed as ‘Enclosure (possible)’ in the RMP (1996). A rectangular cashel (ext. dims. 40.9m E–W; 34.7m N–S) defined by low grassed-over stone walls (H 0.4–0.7m; Wth c. 1.5m). A later, roughly NNE-SSW running, drystone wall (H 1.3m) is built immediately outside the line of the E wall and another ENE-WSW running field wall is just outside the N wall. Outer wall-facing is visible intermittently along the S, W and N walls. Grassed-over spreads of stone (Wth 4-5m) are visible around the walls. An entrance-like feature (Wth 1.15m) is visible about mid-way along the E wall. It is defined by two upright stones (N stone: H 1.14m; Wth 0.45m; T 0.18m; S stone: H 1.06m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.15m) which are visible immediately inside the NNE-SSW running drystone wall. About 3m to the W of these, two further stones, flush with the ground level of the interior of the cashel, mark what appears to be a raised pathway (H 0.3m; basal Wth c. 2m; upper Wth c. 1m) that leads towards a centrally located rectangular house (CL009-009002-). Another structure (CL009-009003-) is visible against the W wall and there is a small cell-like structure (int. dims. 5m E–W; 4.6m N–S) in the SW angle. The following image has been attached: CL009-009001- (entrance from W).jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 October 2021
- CL009-009002: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL009-009002-. Roughly centrally located within the interior of a rectangular cashel (CL009-009----). This rectangular house site (int. dims. 9.5m N–S; 7.4m E–W), of indeterminate date, is defined by grass-covered wall footings (Wth 0.8–2.2m; H 0.1–0.4m). The doorway was most likely in the E wall wall as a raised grass-over pathway extends from it to towards the possible stone-lined entrance in the E wall of the cashel. Another structure (CL009-009002-) is visible against the W wall of the cashel. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 October 2021
- CL009-009003: Structure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL009-009003-. Abutting the inner face of the W wall of a rectangular cashel (CL009-009----). This structure (int. dims. 4m N–S; 3.8m E–W) is defined by grassed-over wall footings/stone spread along the N and E sides. There is no visible surface trace of the S side. The cashel wall forms the W side. A house site (CL009-009001-) is centrally located in the interior of the cashel. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 October 2021
- CL009-011: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL009-011----. On flat ground at the base of a W-facing slope. Hachured as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 1998 it was not visible at ground level and there was no evidence of land reclamation in the area. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 15 February 2021

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 Cahermaan.

## 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 Cahermaan, 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.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cahermaan.
- 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/cahermaan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermaan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermaan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cahermaan 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)

- Ballyconnoe North: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyconnoe-north.md
- Ballymahony: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballymahony.md
- Cahermacnaghten: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermacnaghten.md
- Cahermakerrila: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermakerrila.md
- Knockavoarheen: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockavoarheen.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.

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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.

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