# Caher, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmoe, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish An Chathair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,970,596 m² (197.06 ha, 486.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,102 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmoe, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilmoe.md - Barony: Carbery West (West Division) - Electoral division: Crookhaven, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 205 people lived in 94 households in the Crookhaven electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 63% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13401 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41144 - Centre: latitude 51.467211, longitude -9.803081 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher, from 65 m² to 280,627 m² (28.06 ha, 69.34 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2221661: 280,627 m² (28.06 ha, 69.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221661.md - Parcel 2268759: 202,622 m² (20.26 ha, 50.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268759.md - Parcel 2685957: 146,352 m² (14.64 ha, 36.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2685957.md - Parcel 2221749: 141,288 m² (14.13 ha, 34.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221749.md - Parcel 5076231: 130,990 m² (13.1 ha, 32.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5076231.md - Parcel 2268770: 116,439 m² (11.64 ha, 28.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268770.md - Parcel 2221755: 113,641 m² (11.36 ha, 28.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221755.md - Parcel 2268762: 109,218 m² (10.92 ha, 26.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268762.md - Parcel 2268765: 82,418 m² (8.24 ha, 20.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268765.md - Parcel 5076237: 80,803 m² (8.08 ha, 19.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5076237.md - Parcel 2268771: 80,592 m² (8.06 ha, 19.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268771.md - Parcel 2221663: 77,009 m² (7.7 ha, 19.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221663.md - Parcel 2221655: 68,367 m² (6.84 ha, 16.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221655.md - Parcel 2221754: 66,566 m² (6.66 ha, 16.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221754.md - Parcel 2268761: 63,415 m² (6.34 ha, 15.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268761.md - Parcel 2221654: 42,543 m² (4.25 ha, 10.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221654.md - Parcel 2268768: 34,710 m² (3.47 ha, 8.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268768.md - Parcel 2268764: 34,103 m² (3.41 ha, 8.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268764.md - Parcel 2268763: 21,029 m² (2.1 ha, 5.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268763.md - Parcel 2221753: 13,485 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221753.md - Parcel 2268767: 13,102 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268767.md - Parcel 2268769: 11,331 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268769.md - Parcel 2221750: 10,215 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221750.md - Parcel 2268758: 9,937 m² (0.99 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268758.md - Parcel 2221658: 5,414 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221658.md - Parcel 2221659: 3,922 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221659.md - Parcel 2221660: 3,686 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221660.md - Parcel 2268760: 3,530 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268760.md - Parcel 2742719: 3,003 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2742719.md - Parcel 5872318: 2,608 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5872318.md - Parcel 2221656: 1,805 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221656.md - Parcel 5855008: 1,580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5855008.md - Parcel 2268766: 1,126 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268766.md - Parcel 2221751: 1,010 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221751.md - Parcel 5854878: 593 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5854878.md - Parcel 2221752: 437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221752.md - Parcel 2221662: 402 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221662.md - Parcel 2221756: 284 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221756.md - Parcel 2221657: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221657.md - Parcel 5067915: 127 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5067915.md - Parcel 5181618: 65 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5181618.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Caher 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) 13 applications, newest first. - 13 May 2021, Cork County Council 21/308: Conditional. Permission. Construct a dwelling house incorporating the renovation of existing outbuildings for use as domestic garage and playroom, on-site waste water treatment unit and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/308 - 29 Jan 2021, Cork County Council 21/52: Unconditional. Extension of duration. Construction of agricultural shed with slatted tank for the housing of cattle. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/52 - 2 Dec 2020, Cork County Council 20/697: Withdrawn. Permission. To construct a dwelling house incorporating the renovation of existing outbuildings for use as domestic garage and playroom, on-site waste water treatment unit and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/697 - 23 Oct 2020, Cork County Council 20/597: Incompleted application. Permission. Permission to construct a dwelling house incorporating the renovation of existing outbuildings for use as domestic garage and playroom, on-site waste water treatment unit and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/597 - 26 Feb 2016, Cork County Council 16/110: Conditional. Permission. Construction of agricultural shed with slatted tank for the housing of cattle. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=16/110 - 17 Sept 2015, Cork County Council 15/531: Refused. Permission. Construction of Agricultural Shed with Slatted tank for the housing of cattle.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/531 - 15 Feb 2011, Cork County Council 11/76: Refused. Permission. Construct a two storey dormer dwelling house with bored well, bio treatment plant and associated site development works incoporating new access road. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/76 - 15 Feb 2011, Cork County Council 11/77: Refused. Permission. Construct a two storey dormer dwelling house with bored well, bio treatment plant and associated site development works incorporating new access road. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/77 - 22 Nov 2010, Cork County Council 10/808: Incompleted application. Permission. Construct a two storey dormer dwelling house with bored well, bio treatment plant and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/808 - 22 Nov 2010, Cork County Council 10/809: Incompleted application. Permission. Construct a two storey dormer dwelling house with bored well, bio treatment plant and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/809 - 17 Jan 2007, Cork County Council 07/114: Withdrawn. Permission. Construction of 3no. dwellings for short term letting and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/114 - 10 Oct 2005, Cork County Council 05/7403: Refused. Permission. Demolition and construction of dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/7403 - 9 Aug 2005, Cork County Council 05/5708: Incompleted application. Permission. Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/5708 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Three Castle Head to Mizen Head SAC, site code 000109, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000109 - Special Protection Area: Sheep's Head to Toe Head SPA, site code 004156, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004156 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Three Castle Head To Mizen Head, site code 000109 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO147-081001: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO147-081001-. In pasture, near farm buildings on a NE-facing slope. According to local information, traces of a stone fort, which gave its name to this townland, existed here, a short distance from a ruined stone house to the S. O'Donoghue (1986, 2) mentions that 'the caher, now demolished although traces remain, was at the east end of the townland with extensive underground passages' (CO147-081002-). The area was subsequently levelled off and the cashel is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009 - CO147-081002: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO147-081002-. In a possible cashel (CO147-081001-). O'Donoghue (1986, 2) mentions that the cashel had 'extensive underground passages'. According to local information, a stone-lined underground passage was exposed during farm work. The area was subsequently covered in and there are no visible remains of this souterrain. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009 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 Caher. ## 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 Caher, about 1 in 10 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 high, 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 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/cork/caher-41144.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/caher-41144.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/caher-41144.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cannawee: https://everytownland.com/cork/cannawee.md - Carrigeengour: https://everytownland.com/cork/carrigeengour.md - Carrigmanus: https://everytownland.com/cork/carrigmanus.md - Cloghane: https://everytownland.com/cork/cloghane-41531.md - Corran Beg: https://everytownland.com/cork/corran-beg.md - Corran More: https://everytownland.com/cork/corran-more.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/caher-41144 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/caher-41144