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

Townland in the civil parish of Killinaboy, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 566,784 m² (56.68 ha, 140.06 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,223 m² (2.42 ha, 5.99 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killinaboy, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/killinaboy.md
- Barony: Inchiquin
- Electoral division: Killinaboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 347 people lived in 132 households in the Killinaboy electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5975
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30480
- Centre: latitude 52.97393, longitude -9.134976 (WGS 84)

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

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahermacon, from 355 m² to 85,017 m² (8.5 ha, 21.01 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1464659: 85,017 m² (8.5 ha, 21.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1464659.md
- Parcel 1476755: 75,192 m² (7.52 ha, 18.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1476755.md
- Parcel 1504099: 63,264 m² (6.33 ha, 15.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1504099.md
- Parcel 1513420: 58,025 m² (5.8 ha, 14.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1513420.md
- Parcel 1450166: 48,634 m² (4.86 ha, 12.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450166.md
- Parcel 1512787: 47,849 m² (4.78 ha, 11.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512787.md
- Parcel 1504102: 47,078 m² (4.71 ha, 11.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1504102.md
- Parcel 1504100: 36,822 m² (3.68 ha, 9.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1504100.md
- Parcel 1434296: 36,250 m² (3.62 ha, 8.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434296.md
- Parcel 1429268: 32,764 m² (3.28 ha, 8.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429268.md
- Parcel 1504101: 15,681 m² (1.57 ha, 3.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1504101.md
- Parcel 1434217: 7,383 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434217.md
- Parcel 1464652: 4,063 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1464652.md
- Parcel 1469897: 2,402 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1469897.md
- Parcel 1466346: 1,549 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1466346.md
- Parcel 4916104: 1,425 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4916104.md
- Parcel 1443155: 1,307 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1443155.md
- Parcel 1453389: 858 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453389.md
- Parcel 1461748: 694 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1461748.md
- Parcel 4916095: 355 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4916095.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Cahermacon 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 Cahermacon 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 Cahermacon.

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

- CL016-092: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL016-092----. On a ridge of high ground in an E-W valley in reclaimed pastureland. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and named ‘Cahermacon’ on the latter ed. Recorded by O’Donovan, in 1839, as a caher in the townland of ‘Cahermochunna’ ‘said to have been the residence of ‘O’Hehir’ (Comber 1997, 16). Listed as ‘Cahermachuna’ by Westropp (1900, 431) and described by him as ‘mere foundations’ and of ‘small dimensions’ (ibid., 1905, 211). Listed as Cashel in the RMP (1996). A subrectangular rath (int. dims. 24.4m E-W, c. 18m N-S) defined by a slightly curving low flat-topped bank from SE to W to N. Spoil has been piled on top of the bank from SW to N. It is best preserved at S (Wth 6.5m, int. H. 0.3m, ext. H. 1.2m) where occasional facing-stones are visible. A double-faced drystone townland boundary wall overlies the enclosing element from N to SE. A number of clearance cairns are visible in the interior. There is a cashel (CL016-034----) c. 130m to the WNW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 22 June 2022
- CL016-144001: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL016-144001-. Located on the N half of a natural rectangular platform (66m N-S; 30m E-W) that slopes to the S. Indicated on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a roofed rectangular building; by the time of the 1916 ed., it was ruined and unroofed. The N wall (Wth 0.7-0.8m; H 0.4m; max. H 1.2m at NW) is the best preserved section of the building (int. dims. 9m N-S; 5.9m E-W). Only the inner face of the E and W walls is visible. The walls are constructed of crudely dressed and mortared stone that are probably of late-medieval date; no architectural features are evident (Breen and Ua Cróinín (2000, 5). A similar, but smaller, building (CL016-144002-) lies immediately to the N. The platform may have may have been adapted as a bawn (CL016-144003-) (ibid.). See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 25 August 2022
- CL016-144002: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL016-144002-. Located on the N half of a natural rectangular platform (66m N-S; 30m E-W) that slopes to the S, and immediately to the N of another similar, but larger, building (CL016-144001-). Not indicated on the 1840 or 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Only the grass-covered NE corner of this building (int. dims. 6.75m N-S; 3m E-W) survives. It is constructed of crudely dressed and mortared stone that is probably of late-medieval date; no architectural features are evident (Breen and Ua Cróinín (2000, 5). The platform may have may have been adapted as a bawn (CL016-144003-) (ibid.). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 25 August 2022
- CL016-144003: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL016-144003-. In pastureland. Breen and Ua Cróinín (2000, 5) suggest that a bawn wall was built on this natural rectangular platform (66m N-S; 30m E-W) sloping to the S. Two possible late-medieval buildings (CL016-144001- and CL016-144002-) are located on its N half. The N side of the platform is defined by a scarp (H 1.5m) and a quarry face is visible at its base. A grassed-over stone wall runs along the top of the E edge of this side; it could be related to the building shown in this area on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The E side (H 2.2m) is steeper. A wall visible about midway along scarp face may have been built to retain the platform. The S side is indistinct but a briar-covered cairn and possible house foundations are visible in the SE corner; the latter may be the remains of another building shown on the 1840 ed. Breen and Ua Cróinín (ibid.) note that the linear wall/bank on the W side, which extends around to the W end of the N side, suggests that the platform was once protected by a wall. They also suggest that Ballycasheen Castle (see CL016-194----) may have been located within this site, which is known locally as ‘Lochlann Riabhach Ó hEithir’s House'. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 25 August 2022
- CL016-145: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL016-145----. On a low hillock on the floor of an E-W valley in pasture. A roughly triangular-shaped grass-covered mound of earth with some stone visible. The mound is flat topped (dims. at top L 4.6m at W; L 5.7m at NE; L 5.8m SE; dims. at base L 9.8m at W; L 11.4 at NE; L 9.6 at SE) and varies in height (H 1.2-1.5m). Its edges are eroded and this may be due to the presence of livestock in the field. According to local information, it was always here and was known as ‘the moat’. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 3 August 2022

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 Cahermacon.

## 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 Cahermacon, about 1 in 20 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 Cahermacon.
- 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/cahermacon.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermacon.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermacon.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cahermacon 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)

- Ballycasheen: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballycasheen.md
- Caherblonick North: https://everytownland.com/clare/caherblonick-north.md
- Knockroe: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockroe-31664.md
- Leamaneh South: https://everytownland.com/clare/leamaneh-south.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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