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

Townland in the civil parish of Kilraghtis, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Ceathrú na Liathánach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 718,716 m² (71.87 ha, 177.6 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 46,556 m² (4.66 ha, 11.5 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): C2.1 Enterprise, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilraghtis, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilraghtis.md
- Barony: Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division: Spancelhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 725 people lived in 248 households in the Spancelhill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6462
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30489
- Centre: latitude 52.867057, longitude -8.927577 (WGS 84)

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

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernalough, from 1,019 m² to 369,112 m² (36.91 ha, 91.21 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 3233366: 369,112 m² (36.91 ha, 91.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3233366.md
- Parcel 1508839: 162,636 m² (16.26 ha, 40.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1508839.md
- Parcel 4874224: 116,564 m² (11.66 ha, 28.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4874224.md
- Parcel 4973439: 46,556 m² (4.66 ha, 11.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4973439.md
- Parcel 1453392: 16,015 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453392.md
- Parcel 1452859: 7,061 m² (0.71 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1452859.md
- Parcel 1476759: 1,019 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1476759.md

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

- C2.1 Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Ennis and Environs, Clare; 4 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442
- G3 Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Ennis and Environs, Clare; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442

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

1 application, newest first.

- 16 Jul 2021, Clare County Council 21757: Conditional. Permission. - a permission of 10 years in duration is sought. The application site has a total of c. 60 hectares with a nett area for development of c. 45 hectares, and is bound to the south by R352 (Tulla Road), to the east and the north by agriculture land, to the west by the M18. The development will consist of: the demolition of an existing single storey with pitched roof farm dwelling house together with 8 No. farm outbuildings on the overall site. The construction of 6 No. two storey data centre buildings with three storey plant/office levels and associated ancillary development that will have a combined gross floor area of 118,740 sqm. These data halls are maximum 19m high and will consist of the data halls and air handling units and offices and ancillary plant and support. Each of the six data centre buildings will include data halls, associated electrical and mechanical plant rooms, loading bays, maintenance and storage spaces, office administration areas, pump rooms, water storage tanks, and plant, as well as backup (standby) generators (11 No. per building) for emergency use only situated along one elevation of each building. The standby diesel generators will have associated 8 m high flues. Each generator will also include local diesel storage tanks with a single refuelling area to serve the proposed emergency generators. A gas powered energy centre and Above Ground Installation (AGI)4,674 sqm in size . The energy centre will primarily comprise 18 no. lean-burn natural gas engines, 2 No. pump rooms, and fuel storage compound. Each generator will have its own flue of 25m height. The energy centre and buildings within the compound will be 12 m high, single storey with mezzanine level. The buildings will house ancillary office, welfare facilities and associated parking. A two storey Vertical Farm Building. The vertical farm will be c. 2,430 sqm and 12m high. It will comprise c. service area of 1,444 sqm, handling area of 844 sqm and ancillary areas. Please see newspaper notice for full development description. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21757/0

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## 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 Cahernalough.

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

- CL034-007: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL034-007----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL034-009: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL034-009----. Just SW of the summit of a NE-SW ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. diam. 27m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a scrub-covered stone spread (Wth 2.8-5.8m; int. H 0.3-0.9m; ext. H 0.6-0.7m) with the original outer facing (H 0.2m) surviving NE-E. A field wall overlies the outer edge N-E and some spoil is added to the perimeter. There is no visible entrance, although it may have been at NNE or SSW where the perimeter is slightest. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 April 2016
- CL034-236: Excavation - miscellaneous, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL034-236----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL034-237: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL034-237----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

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 Cahernalough.

## 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 Cahernalough, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_581, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_581.zip (ZIP).
- 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/cahernalough.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahernalough.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahernalough.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cahernalough 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)

- Ballymacahill: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballymacahill.md
- Muckinish: https://everytownland.com/clare/muckinish-31928.md
- Tooreen: https://everytownland.com/clare/tooreen-32231.md
- Tullyvoghan: https://everytownland.com/clare/tullyvoghan.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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