Cahercrea West
Townland in the civil parish of Killeenadeema, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Cathair Chré Thiar
- Area
- 37.5 ha
- 93 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 14,282 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahercrea West, from 1,473 m² to 92,027 m² (9.2 ha, 22.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cahercrea West 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
4 Aug 2023Conditional
for the construction of a dwellinghouse (223sqm), garage (40sqm), wastewater treatment plant, percolation area & all associated site development & external works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360911
28 Sept 2017Conditional
to retain minor alterations to existing dwelling and complete septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and diversion of existing drain servicing dwelling granted planning reference 01/2095 and for permission to construct a new domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained 13.3sqm. Gross floor space of proposed works Garage 60sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171432
22 Aug 2017Conditional
for the construction of a new dwellinghouse with on-site sewage treatment system and all associated works (gross floor space 168sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171266
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 Cahercrea West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cahercrea West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cahercrea West.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_969 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cahercrea West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cahercrea West · Cathair Chré Thiar
- Area
- 374,545 m² (37.45 ha, 92.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeenadeema, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Electoral division
- Aille, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aille electoral division: 429 people in 146 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingarry, Cahercrea East, Raheen Oughter
- Placenames
- Cahercrea West 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.