Caher
Caher is a townland in the civil parish of Ardfield, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Chathair.
- Area
- 54.9 ha
- 136 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 2,605 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher, from 0 m² to 111,112 m² (11.11 ha, 27.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jun 2015Conditional
Permission to demolish existing cattle house, permission for retention of existing dairy complex consisting of milkiing parlour, plant room, dairy, office and cattle holding yard. Permission to construct a cattle house with two no slatted slurry tanks and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/364
19 Jan 2009Conditional
Retention and completion of alterations and permission for extension to existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/26
19 Dec 2008Incompleted application
Retention and completion of alterations and permission for extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2216
29 Jan 2007Conditional
Construction of agricultural livestock shed with underground slurry store and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/208
12 Dec 2006Incompleted application
Construction of cattle shed with underground slurry tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2683
23 Mar 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/488
21 Nov 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8543
8 Sept 2005Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6472
13 Sept 2002Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 02/4071
24 Oct 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and proprietary treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/5832
27 Apr 2001New application
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/2340
19 Apr 2001New application
Construction of 8 no. stables with feed storage and tack area
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/2166
28 Apr 2000Conditional
8 no. stables with feed storage & tack area
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/2516
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 Caher.
Recorded monuments
- CO135-088001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on E shoulder of E-W ridge. Circular area (40m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m); second bank survives W->N (H 2.9m), separated by intervening fosse. Inner bank partially levelled off, giving wide and uneven profile; gap to SE. Area of levelled outer bank N->W uneven, sloping gently down to W; gap to N (Wth 8m). Interior rises to central E-W ridge; souterrain (CO135-088002-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO135-088002 Souterrain
Description
Opening (L 2m; Wth 1m) in S half ringfort (CO135-088001-) exposes stone-built corbelled chamber. Creephole visible at S end and collapse has occurred at W side. Further investigation not possible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caher.
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 Caher, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caher.
- 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 Caher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Caher · An Chathair
- Area
- 549,433 m² (54.94 ha, 135.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardfield, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Ardfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 838 people lived in 287 households in the Ardfield electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brittas South, Clooncunnig, Corrabally, Moneennamucky, Mountain Common, Pallas
- Placenames
- Caher 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.