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

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

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 618,362 m² (61.84 ha, 152.8 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,731 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Rathborney, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/rathborney.md
- Barony: Burren
- Electoral division: Rathborney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5861
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30483
- Centre: latitude 53.082903, longitude -9.201677 (WGS 84)

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

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahermacun, from 68 m² to 458,029 m² (45.8 ha, 113.18 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1429270: 458,029 m² (45.8 ha, 113.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429270.md
- Parcel 1458414: 148,367 m² (14.84 ha, 36.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458414.md
- Parcel 1461750: 5,305 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1461750.md
- Parcel 1460276: 4,156 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1460276.md
- Parcel 1446051: 2,262 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1446051.md
- Parcel 2459565: 68 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2459565.md

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

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.

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

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC, site code 000020, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000020
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex, site code 000020

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

- CL005-017: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-017----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-074----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-075----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-288----. 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

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 Cahermacun.

## 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 Cahermacun, 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 Cahermacun.
- 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/cahermacun.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermacun.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermacun.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cahermacun 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)

- Cloonmartin: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonmartin.md
- Croagh North: https://everytownland.com/clare/croagh-north.md
- Drumbrickaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/drumbrickaun.md
- Gragan West: https://everytownland.com/clare/gragan-west.md
- Lislarheenmore: https://everytownland.com/clare/lislarheenmore.md
- Lismacteige: https://everytownland.com/clare/lismacteige.md
- Poulacapple: https://everytownland.com/clare/poulacapple.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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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

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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