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

Townland in the civil parish of Annaghdown, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Cathair Mhuiris.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,025,594 m² (202.56 ha, 500.54 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,759 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Annaghdown, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/annaghdown.md
- Barony: Clare
- Electoral division: Killower, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 925 people lived in 302 households in the Killower electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% 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/21796
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60767
- Centre: latitude 53.433983, longitude -8.994463 (WGS 84)

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

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahermorris, from 61 m² to 237,570 m² (23.76 ha, 58.7 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2373759: 237,570 m² (23.76 ha, 58.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373759.md
- Parcel 2004709: 234,297 m² (23.43 ha, 57.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004709.md
- Parcel 2004713: 199,198 m² (19.92 ha, 49.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004713.md
- Parcel 4778619: 178,507 m² (17.85 ha, 44.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4778619.md
- Parcel 5664239: 165,926 m² (16.59 ha, 41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5664239.md
- Parcel 2004732: 99,819 m² (9.98 ha, 24.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004732.md
- Parcel 2004719: 93,410 m² (9.34 ha, 23.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004719.md
- Parcel 2587091: 77,065 m² (7.71 ha, 19.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2587091.md
- Parcel 2004714: 72,924 m² (7.29 ha, 18.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004714.md
- Parcel 1947030: 72,793 m² (7.28 ha, 17.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947030.md
- Parcel 1947032: 50,283 m² (5.03 ha, 12.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947032.md
- Parcel 2004711: 48,559 m² (4.86 ha, 12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004711.md
- Parcel 1947031: 47,162 m² (4.72 ha, 11.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947031.md
- Parcel 2373758: 45,979 m² (4.6 ha, 11.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373758.md
- Parcel 2004710: 42,216 m² (4.22 ha, 10.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004710.md
- Parcel 2587115: 41,089 m² (4.11 ha, 10.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2587115.md
- Parcel 1947041: 36,367 m² (3.64 ha, 8.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947041.md
- Parcel 2004712: 34,170 m² (3.42 ha, 8.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004712.md
- Parcel 1947044: 30,347 m² (3.03 ha, 7.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947044.md
- Parcel 2004726: 29,441 m² (2.94 ha, 7.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004726.md
- Parcel 2004731: 27,539 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004731.md
- Parcel 1947045: 24,780 m² (2.48 ha, 6.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947045.md
- Parcel 2004718: 23,710 m² (2.37 ha, 5.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004718.md
- Parcel 1947042: 20,422 m² (2.04 ha, 5.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947042.md
- Parcel 2004725: 12,507 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004725.md
- Parcel 1947036: 6,897 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947036.md
- Parcel 4669011: 5,277 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4669011.md
- Parcel 2587066: 4,512 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2587066.md
- Parcel 2004729: 3,753 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004729.md
- Parcel 1947043: 3,684 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947043.md
- Parcel 4656330: 2,833 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4656330.md
- Parcel 2004717: 2,801 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004717.md
- Parcel 4459784: 2,717 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4459784.md
- Parcel 4639898: 2,695 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4639898.md
- Parcel 5664229: 2,669 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5664229.md
- Parcel 1947035: 2,526 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947035.md
- Parcel 2004728: 2,500 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004728.md
- Parcel 4640008: 2,223 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4640008.md
- Parcel 4663157: 2,222 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4663157.md
- Parcel 2004727: 2,206 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004727.md
- Parcel 2442208: 2,180 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2442208.md
- Parcel 2442174: 2,158 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2442174.md
- Parcel 4640005: 2,074 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4640005.md
- Parcel 2587064: 2,026 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2587064.md
- Parcel 2004715: 1,983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004715.md
- Parcel 1947034: 1,979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947034.md
- Parcel 2022334: 1,965 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2022334.md
- Parcel 1947040: 1,745 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947040.md
- Parcel 2374121: 1,709 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2374121.md
- Parcel 2004723: 1,700 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004723.md
- Parcel 2004724: 1,672 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004724.md
- Parcel 1947037: 1,507 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947037.md
- Parcel 2004730: 1,500 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004730.md
- Parcel 1947033: 1,467 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947033.md
- Parcel 1947038: 1,216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947038.md
- Parcel 5278642: 1,008 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5278642.md
- Parcel 4684370: 490 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4684370.md
- Parcel 4684530: 374 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4684530.md
- Parcel 2004716: 328 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004716.md
- Parcel 2004720: 154 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004720.md
- Parcel 4459783: 129 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4459783.md
- Parcel 1947039: 126 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1947039.md
- Parcel 2004721: 107 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004721.md
- Parcel 2004722: 61 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2004722.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Cahermorris 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)

5 applications, newest first.

- 9 Oct 2025, Galway County Council 2561471: Conditional. Permission. for the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor between structure no. 81 and 161; the replacement of angle masts in-situ at 3no. locations, with similar structures; the painting of a tower at 1no. location; the replacement of polesets at 54no. locations, with similar structures. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16 m to 23 m along the circuit. The majority of the height increases will be between 0.1 m and 2.0 m (at 40no. structures), with 13no. structure replacements resulting in no change in height. Structure no. 109 will increase in height by 3.0 m; the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at all structures from structure no. 81 to 160; the replacement of stay wire / anchors and associated fittings at 3no. locations; the replacement of crossarms at 59no. locations; the installation of fibre wrap on phase conductor between structure no. 1 and structure no. 161; all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including the removal and reinstatement of 220m of hedgerow / field boundary (estimated using Táilte Éireann data), vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts / piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and a temporary watercourse crossing to access structure no. 160. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., national roads, rivers, etc. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561471/0
- 3 Mar 2022, Galway County Council 22285: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a new extension to existing dwelling along with demolition of existing sunroom and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 38.2sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22285/0
- 17 Feb 2021, Galway County Council 21189: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for development consisting of (1) to construct a dwellinghouse and domestic garage/garden store. (2) New sewage treatment system and (3) all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 262 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21189/0
- 24 Sept 2020, Galway County Council 201385: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to replace existing conservatory with a new sun room and to create a en-suite overhead at the first floor level. Gross floor space of proposed works: 26 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 12.96 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201385/0
- 21 Jun 2019, Galway County Council 19944: N/a. Retention. for (a) the existing workshop for the purpose of dismantling End of Life Vehicles (ELV), (b) dry parts storage shed, (c) car storage area, (d) all associated works and services including alterations made to site access junction/entrance. Planning Permission is being sought for upgrades to the drainage system on site, construction of an additional shed on site, and all associated site services and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 175 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 553 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19944/0

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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 Cahermorris.

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

- GA056-041: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-041----. In undulating grassland. This poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 30m) is defined by a drystone wall that is reduced to a rubble spread (Wth 2-2.5m; H 0.2-0.3m). The interior is overgrown with trees. In the NW quadrant there is a subrectangular depression (L 6.5m, Wth 3.8m) running NW-SE. On its E side, definite traces of stone-facing are visible. These remains may represent a possible souterrain (GA056-041001-). (Westropp 1919, 183; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 304) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 26 November 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1991).
- GA056-041001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-041001-. Within the NW quadrant of the cashel (GA056-041---) there is a subrectangular depression (L 6.5m, Wth 3.8m) running NW-SE. On its E side, definite traces of stone-facing are visible. These remains may mark the site of a souterrain (GA056-041001-). This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1991). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 November 2018
- GA056-042: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-042----. Some 25m NW of a large enclosure (GA056-043001-). When inspected in September 1983 this poorly preserved circular cashel (D 35m) was defined by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 1.8m; H 0.3-0.4m) which was obscured by overgrowth. A field wall cut through the monument at NW and SE. On re-inspection in May 1991 it was noted that as a result of land clearance in the area field-clearance rubble was dumped against the external face of the E half of the cashel wall. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 14 August 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1991).
- GA056-043001: Enclosure - large enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-043001-. In rough scrub and grassland. When visited in September 1983, this monument consisted of a large roughly D-shaped enclosure (N-S 85m, E-W 80m) defined by a well-preserved drystone wall (Wth 2.9m, H 1.7m max.). A sketch plan by Westropp (1919, 168) shows a gap at NNE, probably the same point at which he noted 'a slight trace of a mortar-built gateway' (ibid., 182-3): no definite surface traces of either were found. The monument was almost completely levelled in April/May 1991 as a result of land clearance. A castle (GA056-042----) stood in the interior and a ringfort (GA056-043002-) lies 25m to NW. (Anon. 1919, 165) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1991).
- GA056-043002: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-043002-. Within a large enclosure (GA056-043001-). According to Nolan (1901a, 46), it was in existence in 1570 when it 'belonged to Burke of Castle Hackett': in 1574 it is listed as being in the possession of 'Mc Walters sept' (ibid. 1901b, 118). Named but not indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map: on 3rd ed. (1920), its site is marked in E sector of the enclosure. No visible surface trace survives in this area but there is a low circular stony mound (D 8m) in N sector in which large chunks of masonry are visible. Within it is a roughly rectangular hollow (N-S 3.5m, E-W 1.5m) in which faint traces of wall-faces are visible. Though it lies inside the line of the enclosure wall, this may be synonymous with the 'slight trace of a mortar-built gateway' mentioned by Westropp (1919, 182-3, 168). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1991).
- GA056-045: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA056-045----. 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)

- House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 30405608, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30405608. Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having windbreak to entrance, and single-storey late twentieth-century extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with decorative knotting to raised ridge, low rendered chimneystack, and cement copings to gables, and flat roof with parapet to windbreak. Rendered walls with rendered plinth, bevelled quoins to front corners of building and of windbreak, and render eaves course. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber casements, painted stone sills and raised render reveals. Square-headed glazed timber door. Set parallel to road with garden to front with rendered boundary wall and piers with metal gate. Two outbuildings to north with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and random rubble walls.
- Cahermorris House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1870–1890, Regional interest, registry number 30405617, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30405617. Entrance gateway, erected c.1880, to Cahermorris House. Round-plan piers of hammer-finished ashlar limestone, with tooled square-edged string course and tooled conical caps, with recent decorative metal gates, flanked by coursed random rubble stone walls with 'Buck and Doe' rubble coping.

## 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 Cahermorris, 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 Cahermorris.
- 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/cahermorris.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahermorris.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahermorris.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cahermorris 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)

- Bredagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/bredagh-60656.md
- Bunatober: https://everytownland.com/galway/bunatober.md
- Bunnahevelly Beg: https://everytownland.com/galway/bunnahevelly-beg.md
- Bunnahevelly More: https://everytownland.com/galway/bunnahevelly-more.md
- Cluidrevagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/cluidrevagh.md
- Glenrevagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/glenrevagh-62197.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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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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