Caherlarhig
Caherlarhig is a townland in the civil parish of Island, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cathair Láithrigh.
- Area
- 79.9 ha
- 197 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 750 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherlarhig, from 1 m² to 255,492 m² (25.55 ha, 63.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 · 25 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
20 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Construct extensions and make minor alterations, all to existing dwelling (change of plan from that permitted under pl. reg. no. 24/580) and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0690
25 Oct 2024Conditional permission
Construction of an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house. The decommissioning of an existing septic tank, the installation of a new treatment unit, percolation area, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/580
25 Feb 2022Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/112
19 Nov 2018Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage including the installation of proprietary effluent treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/694
5 Nov 2018Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling house and domestic garage including the installation of proprietary effluent treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/646
30 Jul 2015Conditional
The erection of an extension to the rear of existing dwellinghouse, treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/441
21 Jul 2015Incompleted application
An extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/418
31 Mar 2005Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1988
13 May 2002Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/1876
19 Dec 2001Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/6842
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 Caherlarhig.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Caherlarhig.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caherlarhig.
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 Caherlarhig, 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 Caherlarhig.
- 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 Caherlarhig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Caherlarhig · Cathair Láithrigh
- Area
- 798,853 m² (79.89 ha, 197.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Island, 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.
- Placenames
- Caherlarhig 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.