Caherduff

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherduff, from 828 m² to 180,559 m² (18.06 ha, 44.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Caherduff 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Caherduff in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Caherduff.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-075 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pastureland. According to McCaffrey (1952, 25, no. 136; 1955, 222), this was a circular ring-barrow (diam. 20.5m) defined by a low flat-topped mound (diam. 8.8m; H 0.9m) encircled by a fosse and external bank; the NW half of the monument was destroyed during construction of the railway line which cuts across it from NE to WSW. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 August 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caherduff.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caherduff.

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.

No address of the register names Caherduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Caherduff · An Chathair Dhubh

Area

394,246 m² (39.42 ha, 97.42 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Ardrahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardrahan electoral division: 612 people in 201 households; 75% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Cloghroak, Shantallow, Sroove, Toberacreggaun

Placenames

Caherduff 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.