# Caher, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moyrus, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish An Chathair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,024,558 m² (302.46 ha, 747.38 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,348 m² (1.03 ha, 2.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Moyrus, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/moyrus.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Moyrus, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Moyrus electoral division: 334 people in 139 households; 82% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18283 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60714 - Centre: latitude 53.469844, longitude -9.689591 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caher, from 92 m² to 2,565,356 m² (256.54 ha, 633.91 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1944779: 2,565,356 m² (256.54 ha, 633.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944779.md - Parcel 1944784: 49,092 m² (4.91 ha, 12.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944784.md - Parcel 2007182: 33,244 m² (3.32 ha, 8.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007182.md - Parcel 2007185: 28,204 m² (2.82 ha, 6.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007185.md - Parcel 2112518: 27,034 m² (2.7 ha, 6.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112518.md - Parcel 1944778: 23,220 m² (2.32 ha, 5.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944778.md - Parcel 2596963: 20,890 m² (2.09 ha, 5.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2596963.md - Parcel 1944774: 19,748 m² (1.97 ha, 4.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944774.md - Parcel 2007181: 18,117 m² (1.81 ha, 4.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007181.md - Parcel 2597041: 15,923 m² (1.59 ha, 3.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2597041.md - Parcel 2597140: 13,715 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2597140.md - Parcel 1944783: 11,587 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944783.md - Parcel 2597145: 11,299 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2597145.md - Parcel 1944775: 11,134 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944775.md - Parcel 2007186: 11,087 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007186.md - Parcel 2597652: 10,628 m² (1.06 ha, 2.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2597652.md - Parcel 2007183: 10,348 m² (1.03 ha, 2.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007183.md - Parcel 2007187: 8,597 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007187.md - Parcel 2007184: 8,473 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007184.md - Parcel 1944781: 7,279 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944781.md - Parcel 5130945: 6,401 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5130945.md - Parcel 1944776: 5,746 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944776.md - Parcel 2007088: 5,373 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007088.md - Parcel 4956339: 5,260 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4956339.md - Parcel 1944777: 5,174 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944777.md - Parcel 3952264: 5,098 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3952264.md - Parcel 5593439: 4,153 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5593439.md - Parcel 2007087: 2,496 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007087.md - Parcel 1944773: 1,845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944773.md - Parcel 3952244: 1,794 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3952244.md - Parcel 2007089: 1,207 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2007089.md - Parcel 1944782: 784 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1944782.md - Parcel 5130943: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5130943.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) 5 applications, newest first. - 28 May 2026, Galway County Council 26124: Conditional. Permission. le haghaidh athrú ar dhearadh seideanna talmhaíochta agus ar oibreacha suímh gaolmhara ar tugadh cead pleanála dóibh roimhe seo faoi thagairt 25/11. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/26124/0 - 29 Jan 2025, Galway County Council 2511: Conditional. Permission. chun cró beithioch agus chun umar sciodair I gcoir eisiltigh talmhaíochta a thógáil. Tá ráiteas tionchair nádurtha faoi bhráid, maidir leis an tIarratas Pleanála seo. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2511/0 - 4 Apr 2019, Galway County Council 19486: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 280 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19486/0 - 14 Jun 2018, Galway County Council 18800: N/a. Retention. of agricultural shed. Gross floor space of work to be retained 53sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18800/0 - 29 Jun 2017, Galway County Council 17951: Conditional. Retention. of livestock sheds and underground effluent tank (gross floor space 256sqm). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17951/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC, site code 002034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002034 - Special Area of Conservation: Maumturk Mountains SAC, site code 002008, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002008 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex, site code 002034 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumturk Mountains, site code 002008 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Caher. ## 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: About 1 in 20 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - 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/galway/caher-60714.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/caher-60714.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/caher-60714.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. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cappaghoosh: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappaghoosh.md - Derryneen: https://everytownland.com/galway/derryneen.md - Derryvealawauma: https://everytownland.com/galway/derryvealawauma.md - Illion East: https://everytownland.com/galway/illion-east.md - Lissoughter: https://everytownland.com/galway/lissoughter.md - Tawnaghmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/tawnaghmore-63982.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/galway/caher-60714 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/caher-60714