# Cahermee, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Caherduggan, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Cathair an Mhígh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,115,104 m² (111.51 ha, 275.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,858 m² (0.69 ha, 1.69 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 Greenbelt1, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 19 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Caherduggan, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/caherduggan.md - Barony: Fermoy - Electoral division: Buttevant, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,965 people lived in 758 households in the Buttevant electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11679 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41181 - Centre: latitude 52.21772, longitude -8.632012 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahermee, from 21 m² to 190,609 m² (19.06 ha, 47.1 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2219663: 190,609 m² (19.06 ha, 47.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2219663.md - Parcel 2270644: 153,833 m² (15.38 ha, 38.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2270644.md - Parcel 2270641: 148,633 m² (14.86 ha, 36.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2270641.md - Parcel 2219660: 140,724 m² (14.07 ha, 34.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2219660.md - Parcel 2270645: 128,979 m² (12.9 ha, 31.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2270645.md - Parcel 3123721: 104,960 m² (10.5 ha, 25.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3123721.md - Parcel 2219664: 100,983 m² (10.1 ha, 24.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2219664.md - Parcel 2270643: 89,948 m² (8.99 ha, 22.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2270643.md - Parcel 2470978: 13,883 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2470978.md - Parcel 3622038: 6,858 m² (0.69 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3622038.md - Parcel 2219658: 5,577 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2219658.md - Parcel 2219661: 4,439 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2219661.md - Parcel 2524375: 3,350 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2524375.md - Parcel 5981833: 2,999 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5981833.md - Parcel 2219662: 2,476 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2219662.md - Parcel 6210857: 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6210857.md - Parcel 6210862: 2,205 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6210862.md - Parcel 2270642: 1,761 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2270642.md - Parcel 5060916: 21 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5060916.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 35 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-3-north-cork.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 19 applications, newest first. - 24 Apr 2020, Cork County Council 20/4821: Conditional. Retention. Retention of an existing dwellinghouse, entrance, site boundaries, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works previously granted under planning reference number 08/7959.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/4821 - 27 Mar 2020, Cork County Council 20/4643: Incompleted application. Retention. Retention of an existing dwellinghouse, entrance, site boundaries, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works previously granted under planning reference number 08/7959.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/4643 - 27 Feb 2020, Cork County Council 20/4406: Unconditional. Extension of duration. Construction of new dwelling and garage with all associated services and site works. Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reference: 14/06026.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/4406 - 24 Oct 2017, Cork County Council 17/6757: Unconditional. Extension of duration. Construction of new slatted unit, ancillary concrete yards, silo pits and all associated site works - Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 12/5069.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=17/6757 - 3 Oct 2017, Cork County Council 17/6570: Conditional. Permission. Construct a detached domestic garage adjacent to existing house and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=17/6570 - 22 Sept 2014, Cork County Council 14/6026: Conditional. Permission. Construction of new dwelling and garage with all associated services and site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/6026 - 4 Feb 2014, Cork County Council 14/4191: Conditional. Permission. Construction of new grain store to existing farm complex and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/4191 - 22 May 2012, Cork County Council 12/5069: Conditional. Permission. Construction of new slatted unit, ancillary concrete yards, silo pits and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5069 - 14 May 2012, Cork County Council 12/4993: Conditional. Permission. Construction of dungstead, slatted beef unit, covered yard, and loose house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/4993 - 24 May 2011, Cork County Council 11/5114: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, waste water treatment unit, entrance and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/5114 - 4 May 2011, Cork County Council 11/4952: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of a dwellinghouse , domestic garage, waste water treatment unit, entrance and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/4952 - 16 Sept 2010, Cork County Council 10/6316: Refused. Permission. Dwellinghouse with domestic garage, waste water treatment unit, entrance and ancillary works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/6316 - 18 Jul 2008, Cork County Council 08/7959: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse & installation of treatment unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/7959 - 16 May 2008, Cork County Council 08/6768: Incompleted application. Permission. Split level dwellinghouse and installation of sewage treatment unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/6768 - 29 Nov 2005, Cork County Council 05/8783: Conditional. Permission. Construction of slatted unit and covered silo pit for agricultural use. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/8783 - 28 Oct 2005, Cork County Council 05/7996: Conditional. Permission. Demolition of dwelling and construction of bungalow. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/7996 - 16 Mar 2005, Cork County Council 05/1592: Conditional. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/1592 - 22 Dec 2004, Cork County Council 04/9517: Conditional. Approval. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/9517 - 23 Jan 2004, Cork County Council 04/299: Conditional. Permission consequent. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/299 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC, site code 002170, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002170 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO017-068: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO017-068----. In pasture, atop hillock, commanding extensive views in all directions. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, truncated to N by roadway; shown as bivallate on 1906 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; portion of defences remains to E, with traces of bank to N on opposite side of roadway. To E, inner earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 2.4m) survives ENE->ESE, with intervening fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 3.8m) and outer earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.7m); some stone facing remains on inner bank and inner face of outer bank. Subcircular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R689) taken May 1977, appeared to be then upstanding. Jones (1902, 239) states that 'Cahirmee, anciently Kohirvee, means stone fort of Mee'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1972). - CO017-069: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO017-069----. Listed as a 'levelled enclosure' in the SMR (1988) and as a 'quarry' in the RMP (1998). In pasture, on S facing slope. Depicted as a roughly rectangular depression (c. 40m x c. 30m) on the 1842 OS 6-inch map and as a hachured sub-circular enclosure on the 1906 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. A partially filled-in depression remains. This may have been a natural depression or a quarry which was enclosed by a protective bank post 1842. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant accepting this as the location of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 30 April 2014 - CO017-070: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO017-070----. In tillage, on E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured sub-square enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1906 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R526). Large bivallate ringfort (CO017-068---) on crest of hill c. 100m to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO017-071001: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO017-071001-. Vacant 2-storey rectangular house (14.53m E-W; c. 8m N-S) of late-17th century appearance with 19th-century alterations. Front elevation (S) of 5 bays at ground floor and 3 bays on 1st floor; central segmental-arched door ope, vertical half-door with fanlight. Projecting chimney stacks rise to full height of both gable ends, with attic windows on N side of both chimneys. Two-storey gabled addition on W side of rear wall, making ground plan L-shaped. House said (in 1911) to be 400 years old but remodeled in 1882 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 18, and photo opp. 6). Two-storey farm buildings to W. Castle indicated on Down Survey (1655-6) barony map on or near site of present house, in townland of 'Ballemee' which incorporates modern townlands of Cahermee and Ballymee. According to present owner, house built in 1495; the walls were originally six feet thick but reduced to three feet. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 - CO017-071002: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO017-071002-. Castle shown on Down Survey (1655-6) barony map on or near site of present Cahirmee House (14863). According to Grove White (1905-25 vol. 2, 19) field to E of house called 'Castle Field'. Local tradition that house is c. 500 years old suggests it may be built on site of castle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 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) - Cahermee House, house, 1660–1700, Regional interest, registry number 20901728, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20901728. Detached two-storey house with attic, built c. 1680, front elevation having three-bay first floor and five-bay ground floor. Formerly single-storey and thatched, with additional storey added in eighteenth century, and pitched roof return added to west end of rear and house remodelled in late nineteenth century. Pitched slate roofs having projecting rendered rubble stone chimneystacks to gables, topped with red brick, and with some cast-iron rainwater goods. Brick eaves courses to rear. Rendered walls, with render quoins to façade. Square-headed window openings, façade having rendered surrounds, limestone sills and remains of two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening to façade with timber panelled double-leaf door and plain fanlight. Single-storey with loft outbuildings to west with pitched slate roofs, rubble limestone walls with red brick band at ground floor window head level, and square-headed openings. ## 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 Cahermee, about 1 in 5 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 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 Cahermee. - 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/cahermee.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/cahermee.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/cahermee.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cahermee 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) - Ballyellis: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyellis-40468.md - Ballymee: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymee.md - Clogheen: https://everytownland.com/cork/clogheen-41544.md - Knockanare: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockanare-43662.md - Lag: https://everytownland.com/cork/lag.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/cahermee - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/cahermee