Cahermacun

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahermacun, from 68 m² to 458,029 m² (45.8 ha, 113.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Cahermacun 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 Cahermacun 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC 000020
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex 000020

Recorded monuments

• CL005-017 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough pasture on the N-facing slope of a N-S ridge, on the E side of the Caher valley. There is a good view of Galway Bay to the NE and from NW to S. Hachured on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map; indicated and named ‘Cahermacun’ on the 1916 ed. In 1901, Westropp (1901, 278) described it as an ‘irregular caher … greatly gapped’. A poorly preserved and partially overgrown rectangular cashel (int. dims. 27m E-W; 25m N-S) with rounded corners. The E, S and W sides are reduced to stony spreads and later walls overlie them on the E and W sides. The S side is heavily overgrown. Some outer wall-facing is visible at S (H 0.8m) and W (H 0.4m). The N side (Wth 1m) is the best preserved part of the wall but its W half is heavily overgrown. Its outer wall-facing survives to a height of 1.2m. However, no clear trace of the inner wall-facing is evident. The S wall is on higher ground and there is a drop (H c. 2m) from its base to the interior of the cashel, which slopes to the N. Thickening of the stone spread in the SE and SW corners potentially indicates the sites of structures. A cairn is located in the centre of the interior. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 24 January 2022

• CL005-074 Enclosure
  Description

  On a high prominent location within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-), with good views from NE to E but with higher peat-covered ground to the W. Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the RMP (1996). A roughly circular cashel (18m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a grassed-over stone bank (Wth 1.2-2.5m; max. int. H 0.5m; max. ext. H 0.8m at E). There is an earthen ledge (Wth 1m; H 0.6m) on the outside of the bank at E. A later wall runs on top of the bank from SW to N. Another cashel (CL005-075----) lies c. 100m SSE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 5 December 2022

• CL005-075 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a high prominent location with views from SSE to WNW, within a multiperiod field system( CL005-115001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the RMP (1996). A moderately well to poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 19m) defined from SSE to WSW by a double wall (ext. H 0.7-1m; int. H 0.45m; T c. 2.5m) built of large stones set on their ends, from WNW to NNE by a bank of stone and earth (W 3.6m; H 0.7m) and from NNE to SE by slight foundations (0.2-0.4m wide). A later wall is built on the outer face from NNE to SE and a boundary wall runs N-S through the E half. Another cashel (CL005-074----) lies c. 100m to the NNW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 5 December 2022

• CL005-288 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough pasture on the N-facing slope of a N-S ridge, on the E side of the Caher valley. This roughly subcircular enclosure (c. 15m WNW-ESE; c. 12m NE-SW), defined by a stone wall, is visible on current OSi digitalglobe aerial imagery. Possibly a cashel. Noted by Ross Ó Maoldúin. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 25 January 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cahermacun, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cahermacun.

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

Name

Cahermacun

Area

618,362 m² (61.84 ha, 152.8 acres)

Civil parish

Rathborney, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Rathborney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

97 people lived in 27 households in the Rathborney electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 15% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonmartin, Croagh North, Drumbrickaun, Gragan West, Lislarheenmore, Lismacteige, Poulacapple

Placenames

Cahermacun 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.