# Caherkelly, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ardrahan, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Cathair Cheallaigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 674,200 m² (67.42 ha, 166.6 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,572 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ardrahan, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ardrahan.md
- Barony: Dunkellin
- Electoral division: Ardrahan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19185
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60756
- Centre: latitude 53.146026, longitude -8.806793 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherkelly, from 61 m² to 96,298 m² (9.63 ha, 23.8 acres); 35 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1926135: 96,298 m² (9.63 ha, 23.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926135.md
- Parcel 1926136: 70,229 m² (7.02 ha, 17.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926136.md
- Parcel 1926139: 47,533 m² (4.75 ha, 11.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926139.md
- Parcel 1926144: 42,106 m² (4.21 ha, 10.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926144.md
- Parcel 1972216: 40,193 m² (4.02 ha, 9.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972216.md
- Parcel 1972222: 33,176 m² (3.32 ha, 8.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972222.md
- Parcel 1972215: 31,563 m² (3.16 ha, 7.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972215.md
- Parcel 1926138: 31,496 m² (3.15 ha, 7.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926138.md
- Parcel 1926045: 29,510 m² (2.95 ha, 7.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926045.md
- Parcel 1926050: 28,218 m² (2.82 ha, 6.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926050.md
- Parcel 1926053: 28,085 m² (2.81 ha, 6.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926053.md
- Parcel 1972225: 22,691 m² (2.27 ha, 5.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972225.md
- Parcel 1972218: 18,379 m² (1.84 ha, 4.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972218.md
- Parcel 1995610: 13,167 m² (1.32 ha, 3.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995610.md
- Parcel 1926141: 12,586 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926141.md
- Parcel 1928037: 12,464 m² (1.25 ha, 3.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1928037.md
- Parcel 1926051: 7,147 m² (0.71 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926051.md
- Parcel 1926140: 6,457 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926140.md
- Parcel 1972213: 5,531 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972213.md
- Parcel 1926143: 5,372 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926143.md
- Parcel 1972214: 4,582 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972214.md
- Parcel 4683937: 3,646 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4683937.md
- Parcel 2373868: 3,366 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373868.md
- Parcel 1972212: 2,989 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972212.md
- Parcel 1972227: 2,830 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972227.md
- Parcel 1926054: 2,820 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926054.md
- Parcel 1926052: 2,738 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926052.md
- Parcel 1926046: 2,612 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926046.md
- Parcel 5539804: 2,532 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5539804.md
- Parcel 1972217: 2,505 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972217.md
- Parcel 1926137: 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926137.md
- Parcel 1972228: 2,253 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972228.md
- Parcel 4463180: 2,232 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4463180.md
- Parcel 1926142: 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926142.md
- Parcel 1972224: 2,141 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972224.md
- Parcel 4798367: 2,067 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4798367.md
- Parcel 1926145: 2,000 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926145.md
- Parcel 4798373: 1,917 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4798373.md
- Parcel 1972220: 1,886 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972220.md
- Parcel 2101974: 1,582 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2101974.md
- Parcel 5492933: 1,304 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5492933.md
- Parcel 2373869: 1,205 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373869.md
- Parcel 1926048: 1,174 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926048.md
- Parcel 1926044: 884 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926044.md
- Parcel 1972221: 845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972221.md
- Parcel 1972226: 822 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972226.md
- Parcel 1995611: 599 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1995611.md
- Parcel 1926133: 557 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926133.md
- Parcel 1972219: 512 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972219.md
- Parcel 1926134: 469 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926134.md
- Parcel 1926049: 446 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926049.md
- Parcel 1972211: 226 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972211.md
- Parcel 1926043: 203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926043.md
- Parcel 1972223: 86 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1972223.md
- Parcel 1926047: 68 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926047.md
- Parcel 5492936: 61 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5492936.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

6 applications, newest first.

- 20 May 2025, Galway County Council 2560623: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560623/0
- 25 Oct 2023, Galway County Council 2361279: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to make alterations & construct an extension to the existing dwellinghouse. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361279/0
- 19 Oct 2023, Galway County Council 2361260: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system previously granted under pl. ref. no. 03/6622. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361260/0
- 16 Nov 2020, Galway County Council 201720: Conditional. Permission. to construct an extension to Ardrahan National School. Gross floor space of proposed works: 108.6 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201720/0
- 14 Nov 2019, Galway County Council 191770: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191770/0
- 16 Feb 2017, Galway County Council 17185: N/a. Permission. 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.). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17185/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA114-012: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA114-012----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA114-037----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA114-037001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA114-038----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA114-038001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA114-175----. 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.

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_763.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherkelly.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherkelly.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherkelly.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Caherkelly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ardrahan South: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardrahan-south.md
- Ballylara: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballylara.md
- Ballymariscal: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballymariscal.md
- Cregaclare Demesne: https://everytownland.com/galway/cregaclare-demesne.md
- Cullenagh Beg: https://everytownland.com/galway/cullenagh-beg.md
- Tullira: https://everytownland.com/galway/tullira.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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