Caher-Mountain

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher-Mountain, from 1,228 m² to 460,346 m² (46.03 ha, 113.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Caher-Mountain 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.

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

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Sheep's Head SAC 000102
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheep's Head 000102

Recorded monuments

• CO129-027 Standing stone
  Description

  On bog on a terrace on a NW-facing slope overlooking Bantry Bay and Bere Island. This standing stone (0.55m x 0.4m; H 0.95m) is irregular in plan and is orientated NW-SE. The stone features quartz on its N face. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO129-028001 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill grazing, on a NE-SW terrace on a NW-facing slope overlooking Bantry Bay and Bere Island. The remains of a rectangular hut site (4.2m N-S; 1.9m E-W) defined by a roughly built stone wall (T 0.55m; H 0.7m) which protrudes above the surface of the bog. An internal E-W stone wall (T 0.4m) forms a separate compartment (Wth 1.4m) in the N quadrant of the structure. Another hut site (CO129-028002-) is c. 7m to the N. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO129-028002 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill grazing, on a NE-SW terrace on a NW-facing slope overlooking Bantry Bay and Bere Island. The remains of a rectangular hut site (4.3m N-S; 2.6m E-W) defined by the lower courses of a roughly built stone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.4m) which protrudes above the surface of the bog. Another hut site (CO129-028001-) is c. 7m to the S. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caher-Mountain.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Caher-Mountain, about 1 in 5 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 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-Mountain.

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.

No address of the register names Caher-Mountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Caher-Mountain · Sliabh na Cathrach

Area

887,082 m² (88.71 ha, 219.2 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Sheepshead, the unit of the census

Census 2022

198 people lived in 82 households in the Sheepshead electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughaleigue Beg, Glanroon, Killeen North, Letter-Mountain

Placenames

Caher-Mountain 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.