Cahererillan

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahererillan, from 189 m² to 290,831 m² (29.08 ha, 71.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Cahererillan 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 Cahererillan 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 Cahererillan.

Recorded monuments

• GA113-058001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Within the SW quadrant of a cashel (GA113-058001-) that may have subsequently been used as a bawn. In existence in 1574, when it was in the possession of 'Oheyne' (Nolan 1901, 114), this ivy-clad, two-phase, five storey-high, rectangular tower house (L 8.4m, Wth 7.7m) is in fair condition. It is constructed of well-coursed, squared-off stones with dressed quoinstones and it has a base-batter. The first phase (L 3.65m, Wth 7.7m), indicated by vertical jointing in the N and S walls, comprises the E part of the tower containing the spiral stairs and subsidiary chambers. The second phase comprises the main rooms on each floor. The original doorway, set slightly off-centre in the E wall, is largely robbed out. It gives access to a lobby with a murder-hole above. From this lobby, doorways lead to a small chamber in the NE corner, the spiral stairs in the SE corner and the main ground-floor room to the W. There are subsidiary chambers to the E of the main rooms on 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors: the 4th floor occupies the full extent of the tower. Stone vaults exist between 1st/2nd and 3rd/4th floors of the main rooms but the upper vault has almost completely collapsed. There are badly damaged fireplaces on the 2nd and 4th floors in the W wall of the main rooms, and a garderobe on the 3rd floor in the N wall. There is evidence of a concealed chamber in the thickness of the vault between the 3rd/4th floors in the NW corner. Apart from the W gable, little of the roof or parapets remain. However, from the surviving corbels, it is evident that there were angle bartizans at parapet level on the NW and SW corners, and machicolations on the N and E walls: the latter was placed directly above the doorway. The windows generally consist of flat, round and ogee-headed single lights with a number of twin-light ogee-headed examples on the 4th floor. Finally, there are two small opes in the jambs of the doorway and a horizontal slit directly above it. These may have been musket loops or the opes for a yett. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 178, Korff and O'Connell 1985) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 September 2017

• GA113-058002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Located c. 25.6m to the W of the tower house (GA113-058001-). This rectangular structure (L 12.8m; Wth 6.4m), aligned ENE-WSW, is defined by walls composed of inner and outer facing-stones with traces of a rubble core (max. H 0.3m). Possibly a house site. Two other possible house sites lie to the S and SE (see GA113-058007- and GA113-058008-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 August 2017

• GA113-058003 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pastureland. This subcircular cashel (34m E-W; 30m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by a drystone wall with a possible entrance gap at SE. Traces of a linear wall (L 13m) running S from the W side of the gap may be associated with it. A tower house (GA113-058001-) was constructed in the SW quadrant of the interior and the cashel wall may have subsequently functioned as its bawn wall. A field wall cuts through the interior from roughly N to S. Traces of two buildings (GA113-058005- and GA113-058006-) are visible in the NE quadrant. House sites (GA113-058002-, GA113-058007-, GA113-058008- and GA113-058009-) are also visible to the SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 September 2017

• GA113-058004 Kiln - corn-drying
  Description

  To the W of the tower house (GA113-058001-), in the rubble of the collapsed cashel wall (GA113-058003-). This kiln is defined by a circular stone-lined depression (diam. 1.8m; D 1.7m). The lining stones are well cut and fit neatly together. The floor is covered with rubble. A possible vent is visible at NNE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 August 2017

• GA113-058005 Building
  Description

  In the NE quadrant of the cashel (GA113-058003-). Indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roofed building. Only the foundation lines (Wth 1m) now survive indicating a building (L 13m; Wth 7m) that was aligned NW-SE. The cashel wall appears to have formed the back wall of the building as the E and W walls abut it and are not tied into it. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 August 2017

• GA113-058006 Structure
  Description

  In the NE quadrant of the cashel (GA113-058003-), to the E of a building (GA113-058005-). This roughly subrectangular structure (L 12m; Wth 5.2m) is defined by foundation lines (Wth 1m) along the S and W sides. The enclosing cashel wall defines it from N to SE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 August 2017

• GA113-058007 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Located c. 28.5m to the WSW of the tower house (GA113-058001-). This rectangular structure (L 12.8m; Wth 6.9m), aligned N-S, is defined by wall foundations (Wth 0.75m; max. H 0.3m). Possibly a house site. Two other possible house sites lie to the N and E (see GA113-058002- and GA113-058008-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 August 2017

• GA113-058008 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Located c. 8.6m to the S of the tower house (GA113-058001-). Indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roofed building. This rectangular structure (L. 13.5m; Wth 8.5m), aligned NNW-SSE, is defined by wall foundations (Wth 0.9m; max. H 0.3m). Possibly a house site. Two other possible house sites lie to the W and NW (see GA113-058007- and GA113-058002-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 August 2017

• GA113-058009 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Some 50m to S of the tower house (GA113-058001-), the arc of another drystone foundation line is visible curving from NE to SE: it may be the remains of a round house. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_578 (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.

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

Name

Cahererillan · Cathair Oirealláin

Area

2,014,611 m² (201.46 ha, 497.82 acres)

Civil parish

Killinny, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Killinny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killinny electoral division: 492 people in 169 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagno, Ballybuck South, Cappagh Beg, Cappagh More, Carrowkilleen, Normangrove

Placenames

Cahererillan 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.