Caherkelly

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherkelly, from 61 m² to 96,298 m² (9.63 ha, 23.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Caherkelly 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.

• 20 May 2025Conditional

  to construct an extension to the existing National School. 2. Demolish existing storage sheds and extend playground hard surface area and 3. upgrade the existing wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 240.25 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560623

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  to make alterations & construct an extension to the existing dwellinghouse

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361279

• 19 Oct 2023Conditional

  of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system previously granted under pl. ref. no. 03/6622

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361260

• 16 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct an extension to Ardrahan National School. Gross floor space of proposed works: 108.6 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201720

• 14 Nov 2019Conditional

  of (1) an existing dwelling house on revised site boundaries previously granted under planning reference 39586 and 41658 (2) permission to construction an extension to the dwelling house (3) permission to upgrade the septic tank to a treatment unit with all associated services (4) permission to construct a new site entrance. Gross floor space of proposed works: 36.88 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 113.4 sqm

  Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 191770

• 16 Feb 2017N/a

  for construction of dwelling house, garage, on site waste water treatment and all associated services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: House 274.4 sqm., Garage 54 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17185

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 Caherkelly.

Recorded monuments

• GA114-012 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 40m) defined by a drystone wall. A field wall overlies the enclosing element at S. (McCaffrey 1952, 282, no 48a) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 January 2017

• GA114-037 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level grassland. Well-preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 53.4m) defined by a drystone wall, which is overlain by a field wall at E. The interior is densely overgown. McCaffrey (1952, 281, no. 48) noted a blocked-up entrance gap (Wth c. 3m) at E, from which there extended into the interior ‘a platform or walk of boulders’ (L c. 7.6m; Wth c. 2.4m). He also noted that the entrance was flanked by ‘two rows of boulders making an avenue or approach’ (L c. 9m). Westropp (1919a, 182), who remarks upon the former feature, also noted traces of ‘an outer ring about 12 to 14 feet [3-3.6m] outside the main rampart’; it was evident from SE to SW. No visible surface trace of these features survives. There is a souterrain (GA114-037001-) in the NW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 January 2017

• GA114-037001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the NW quadrant of a cashel (GA114-037----). This souterrain was described by Westropp (1919a, 182) as ‘running west-north-west to east-south-east for about 54 feet [c. 16.5m] long, turning nearly at right angles for over 20 feet [c. 6m] in a north-eastern direction’, suggesting it was L-shaped in plan. It was choked with debris and was about ‘3 feet [c. 0.9m] wide near the top’. It is now inaccessible. (McCaffrey 1952, 281, no. 48) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 January 2017

• GA114-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 30m) defined by a degraded earthen bank, which was possibly revetted with stone. There is a souterrain (GA114-038001-) in the NW quadrant of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 282 no. 49a; SMR file) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 January 2017

• GA114-038001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the NW quadrant of a rath (GA114-038----). This souterrain consists of a lintelled and dry-stone built passage (L 4-4.5m Wth 1.2m) which runs N-S. The access point at the S end is now blocked up with stones. A depression (L 4m) to the S of this may indicate a section that has collapsed. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 January 2017

• GA114-175 Fulacht fia
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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_763 (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 Caherkelly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Caherkelly · Cathair Cheallaigh

Area

674,200 m² (67.42 ha, 166.6 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

Ardrahan South, Ballylara, Ballymariscal, Cregaclare Demesne, Cullenagh Beg, Tullira

Placenames

Caherkelly 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.