Cahercarney

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahercarney, from 444 m² to 576,422 m² (57.64 ha, 142.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Cahercarney 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.

• 24 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a proposed solar farm development consisting of: linear arrays of solar PV panels on ground mounted steel supported structures with associated cabling and ducting; 12 no. proposed single storey MV stations; 1 no. Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) installation (including 32 no. containers with cells and 8no. Power Conversion System (PCS) MV Stations) with associated security fencing and gates; Site perimeter fencing; 4 no. new permanent site entrances, 1 no. new temporary site entrance, 1 no. upgrade to an existing site entrance; Security gates at all permanent and temporary access points; Site access tracks including passing and turning bays; 3 no. temporary construction compound/carpark/material storage areas with associated temporary site offices, parking areas and security fencing; 6 no. steel storage containers; 6 no. turning bays; On-site pole mounted CCTV cameras; 3 no. temporary construction stage Moby Dick type wheel wash systems; 3 no. concrete wash out locations (one within each temporary construction compound); and, all associated and ancillary works. The proposed solar farm development spans a total site area measuring 86.3ha. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years with an operational period of 40 years. The export capacity to the grid is estimated to be up to 70 MW. The development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413). The planning application is subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report (AASR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared for this development and submitted with this planning application. A separate application to obtain permission for a 110kV grid connection and 110kV substation to facilitate the export of power from the solar farm, will be submitted to An Coimisiún Pleanála. The planning application including the AASR and NIS

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561380

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  for a detached single storey dwelling house, treatment plant & polishing filter and all associated site services. The planning application is accompanied by a screening report for appropriate assessment. Gross floor space of proposed works: 118 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201864

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cahercarney.

Recorded monuments

• GA113-044 Enclosure
  Description

  In farmland. Marked on the OS maps as an oval enclosure (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE). Apart from a densely overgrown hollow, enclosed at N and E by field walls, no visible surface trace of this monument survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 February 2019

• GA113-045 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 21.3m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by modern field walls. In the NW quadrant of the interior are the foundations of a house site (GA113-045001-). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2017

• GA113-045001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In the NW quadrant of the interior of the cashel (GA113-045----). This large trapezoidal house site (ext. L 12.8m E-W) varies in external width from 6.3m at the E end to 4.6m at the W end. It is visible as a grassy bank (H 0.5m) in which the basal courses of the walls (Wth on S side c. 0.9m) protrude. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2017

• GA113-046 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland. Indicated on the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 44m). No visible surface trace survives. A cashel (GA113-047----) lies c. 60m to the SSE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 February 2019

• GA113-047 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. A poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 23m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall surmounted by a modern field wall and obscured by field-clearance rubble. A ruined rectangular structure overlies the wall at NW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2017

• GA113-048 Enclosure
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in pastureland. Marked on the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 February 2019

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having outbuildings attached to each end. Pitched thatched roof with decorative raised ridge, very low rendered chimneystack, render copings and render eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls having smooth render quoins and plinth course. Square-headed openings to front (south-east) elevation with render surrounds, timber battened door and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber battened doors to outbuildings. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate with rendered piers and rendered boundary walls to front of site, and farm gate to south.

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 Cahercarney, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_724 (ZIP).

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 Cahercarney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cahercarney · Cathair Chearnaigh

Area

1,805,365 m² (180.54 ha, 446.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kinvarradoorus, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Cahermore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

620 people lived in 198 households in the Cahermore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherawoneen South, Cahermore, Drumharsna South, Polldonoghoe, Shessy North, Shessy South

Placenames

Cahercarney 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.