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

Townland in the civil parish of Kilconierin, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Cathair Chinn Mhaonmhaí.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 205,883 m² (20.59 ha, 50.87 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,369 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilconierin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilconierin.md
- Barony: Dunkellin
- Electoral division: Moyode, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 297 people lived in 100 households in the Moyode electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20220
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60757
- Centre: latitude 53.236654, longitude -8.693946 (WGS 84)

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

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherkinmonwee, from 52 m² to 97,227 m² (9.72 ha, 24.03 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5105040: 97,227 m² (9.72 ha, 24.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5105040.md
- Parcel 1936485: 66,377 m² (6.64 ha, 16.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936485.md
- Parcel 1936488: 17,088 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936488.md
- Parcel 2015971: 9,416 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015971.md
- Parcel 2015973: 3,610 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015973.md
- Parcel 1936486: 2,813 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936486.md
- Parcel 2015970: 2,699 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015970.md
- Parcel 2015975: 2,040 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015975.md
- Parcel 1936487: 1,507 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936487.md
- Parcel 1936489: 789 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1936489.md
- Parcel 5473115: 725 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5473115.md
- Parcel 2015972: 667 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015972.md
- Parcel 2112269: 84 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112269.md
- Parcel 2015974: 52 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015974.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Caherkinmonwee 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)

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

## 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 Caherkinmonwee.

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

- GA096-039: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA096-039----. In pastureland c. 60m to the NW of a tributary of the Craughwell River and surrounded by a small cluster of farm buildings. In existence in 1574 when 'Caherkynvoncoy' was in the possession of 'Moyler McShane Oge' (Nolan 1901, 121). The tower house underwent a programme of conservation and restoration subsequent to 1996 and is now a private residence (SMR file). The following report is based on an inspection undertaken in 1993 when the structure was well-preserved but in a ruinous condition (SMR file). It consists of a five-storey tower house (10.5m NE-SW; 8.7m NW-SE) constructed of roughly coursed limestone boulders and flagstones with a gentle base-batter. There were well-dressed quoins around the pointed arch entrance doorway, in the NE wall, and around the windows. The entrance doorway led into a small lobby off which there was the guardroom to the S and the spiral stairs to the N. A slit window in the NE wall of the guardroom was blocked up. Directly opposite the main entrance another doorway lead to the ground-floor chamber. It was full of straw bales and was inaccessible. All the wall faces of this chamber had been plastered. The first and second floors of the tower were divided into a main chamber with a subsidiary chamber to the NE, over the doorway. Projecting corbels in the NW and SE walls of the main chambers on the ground and first floors, and in the NE and SW walls of the first-floor subsidiary chamber indicated the floor levels. The floor of the main chamber on the first floor had been robbed out and was replaced with galvanised sheeting, which had partially collapsed. There were vaulted stone arches with traces of wickerwork centring over the chambers on the second floor. The third floor consisted of one large room. The fourth floor was unroofed but traces of a gable were evident on the NE wall. Access was not possible to the battlements but a line of well-inclined gutter-stones was visible along each wall face. Projecting machicolations survived at the top corner of each wall and there was also one in the NE wall above the doorway. There were intramural passages in the SE walls of the main chambers on the first and second floors and in the chamber on the third floor. These led to garderobes in the S end of the SW walls and the garderobe exit chute was visible in the base-batter on the SW wall. There was also an intramural passage in the SW wall on the third floor but it was almost completely blocked up. It was accessed from the N end of this wall. A robbed-out fireplace was evident on the third floor in the NW wall and a chimney rose above this wall on the fourth floor. Windows included simple slits in the NE and NW walls of the subsidiary chambers on the first and second floors. Those in the main chambers included ogee-headed windows with decorated spandrals in the NW and SW walls on the first and second floors; square windows (with central mullions missing) in the NW, NE and SE walls on the third floor, and an ogee-headed window in the SW wall; large square windows in the NW and SE walls (double mullion survives in the latter window) and a smaller single-mullioned window in the NE wall on the fourth floor. The spiral stairs was lit by three slit ogee-headed windows at inter-floor levels in the NE and NW walls. There was a thatched house c. 0.8m from the SE wall of the tower house. Its NW (back) wall thickened considerably towards its W end where it was only 0.6m from the tower house. This section of walling was unplastered externally and three broken corbels were visible projecting from it. At the corner of this wall another wall extended to the NW, just to the W of the SW wall of the tower house, and four well-dressed projecting corbels were visible on its external face. A third wall off the N end of this wall ran towards the base-batter of the tower house but was not bonded into it. These walls formed a small passageway between the tower house and the thatched house. Its function was unclear but it was possibly associated with the tower house. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 22 May 2015

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 Caherkinmonwee.

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

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Caherkinmonwee, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caherkinmonwee.
- 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/caherkinmonwee.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherkinmonwee.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherkinmonwee.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Caherkinmonwee 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)

- Ballynageeragh: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynageeragh.md
- Boleydorragha: https://everytownland.com/galway/boleydorragha.md
- Coolraugh: https://everytownland.com/galway/coolraugh.md
- Ganty: https://everytownland.com/galway/ganty.md
- Lickerrig: https://everytownland.com/galway/lickerrig.md
- Treankyle: https://everytownland.com/galway/treankyle.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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