Caherogan
Caherogan is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfarboy, barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 171.4 ha
- 423 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 2,992 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherogan, from 39 m² to 151,581 m² (15.16 ha, 37.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Caherogan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Jan 2026Refused
for development of a livestock slatted unit and an agricultural entrance with associated ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2617
20 Apr 2023Conditional
of A) Revised boundaries plus additional entrance/exit B) revised wastewater treatment system location C) Revised house location all as varied from original planning ref P04/860, plus all ancillary site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 23234
17 Jan 2022Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, garage, sewage treatment system and construct a new entrance onto public road and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2216
8 Oct 2018Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, garage, sewage treatment system and construct a new entrance onto public road and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18782
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Caherogan.
Recorded monuments
- CL031-049 Quarry
Description
A circular embanked feature, visible in an aerial photograph (ASIAP, CL 207,11), proved, on inspection in 2002, to be a small quarried area. It is hachured and named ‘Quarry (disused)’ on the OS 25-inch map. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caherogan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Caherogan, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caherogan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Caherogan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Caherogan
- Area
- 1,713,791 m² (171.38 ha, 423.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfarboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibrickan
- Electoral division
- Annagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 516 people lived in 203 households in the Annagh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowduff, Cloghaun More, Doonsallagh West, Kildeema North, Knockbrack
- Placenames
- Caherogan 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.