Caheravirane
Caheravirane is a townland in the civil parish of Skull, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cathair an Bhioráin.
- Area
- 55.5 ha
- 137 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 9,740 m² (0.97 ha, 2.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caheravirane, from 601 m² to 137,826 m² (13.78 ha, 34.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Caheravirane 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
3 Mar 2020Conditional
Construction of effluent storage tank within existing cubicle house and farmyard and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/111
6 Mar 2018Conditional
To change design of dwelling and site layout previously granted planning permission under planning ref. no. 11/254 and extension of duration ref no. 15/478, and for the erection of garage together with all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/120
11 Nov 2016Conditional
Permission for retention and completion of dwellinghouse commenced on foot of planning reg ref. 05/5339 and for retention of temporary dwelling unit and storage shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/690
21 Aug 2015Unconditional
Dwelling house and associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 15/478
29 Apr 2011Conditional
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/254
8 Aug 2008Conditional
Erection of domestic garage/boathouse and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1481
9 May 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/870
4 Dec 2006Conditional
Alterations and extension to front of dwelling including raising of roof pitch and installation of new dormer windows
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2599
12 May 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/838
6 Mar 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse on site of existing ruin
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/345
25 Jul 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5339
8 Apr 2005Conditional
Alterations and extenstions to cottage including extension and conversion of barn into living accommodation
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2190
20 Dec 2004Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwelling including conversion of barn to living area
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9383
28 Jan 2004Conditional
Installation of septic tank to serve existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/393
14 Feb 2003Conditional
Farmbuilding (slatted house and silage slab)
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/573
27 Aug 1999Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/4708
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 Caheravirane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Caheravirane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caheravirane.
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 Caheravirane, 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 Caheravirane.
- 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 Caheravirane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Caheravirane · Cathair an Bhioráin
- Area
- 554,921 m² (55.49 ha, 137.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skull, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Lowertown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 244 people lived in 102 households in the Lowertown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arderrawinny, Balteen, Garranes, Kilpatrick, Knock
- Placenames
- Caheravirane 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.