Caherlavine
Townland in the civil parish of Loughrea, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Cathair Fhlaithimhín
- Area
- 78 ha
- 193 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 1,587 m²
- Zoning
- N1.5
- Transport Infrastructure
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherlavine, from 49 m² to 81,875 m² (8.19 ha, 20.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
Loughrea Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Galway · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Aug 2025Refused
for an agricultural storage shed and all associated site development works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561180
10 Apr 2025Conditional
for the construction of a storage shed in addition to the previously approved vehicle storage shed granted under planning reference no. 24/61575 and all associated site services
Permission · Galway County Council, 2560408
20 Nov 2024Conditional
for the construction of a vehicle storage shed, compound area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 702.00 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 2461575
16 Aug 2024Conditional
for the construction of a two-storey detached dwelling, detached domestic garage and connecting breezeway, the installation of a traditional septic tank and percolation area, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance off the public road and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 502.70 sqm (house) & 45.00 (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461063
12 May 2022Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 271 sqm (dwelling) and 62 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260478
28 Mar 2022Conditional
construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 217 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260283
28 Sept 2021Conditional
for: (a) demolition of existing rear extension to dwelling house, (b) construction of extension to side and rear of dwelling house, construction of a carport to side of existing house, (d) elevational changes to existing house and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60.4 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 18 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211783
9 Aug 2021Refused
for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works is Dwelling 271 sqm, Garage 62 sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 211451
26 Apr 2021Refused
to construct a new warehouse / light industrial unit with designated onsite car parking and connection to existing business foul sewer network with all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works:205.2 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 21673
8 Sept 2017Conditional
to construct an extension to their manufacturing unit. Gross floor space of proposed works 117.21sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained 212.63sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171348
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Caherlavine.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Caherlavine.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Caherlavine.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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_968 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Caherlavine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Caherlavine · Cathair Fhlaithimhín
- Area
- 779,879 m² (77.99 ha, 192.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loughrea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Electoral division
- Loughrea Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Loughrea Rural electoral division: 898 people in 307 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnadoman East, Cahernagormuck, Gorteennabohogy, Pollroebuck, Raruddy West, St. Laurencesfields, Tullagh Lower, Tullagh Upper
- Placenames
- Caherlavine 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.