Cahernagormuck
Townland in the civil parish of Loughrea, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Cathair na gCormac
- Area
- 33.7 ha
- 83 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 9,455 m² (0.95 ha, 2.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahernagormuck, from 561 m² to 99,789 m² (9.98 ha, 24.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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
No zone of a development plan covers Cahernagormuck 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Jun 2021Refused
for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 209sqm (House) and 52sqm (Garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211074
21 May 2020Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling 259 sqm, garage 60 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20614
12 Apr 2018Conditional
for provision of a serviced dwelling, a domestic garage/shed and proprietary effluent treatment system together with all associated facilities via a shared existing site entrance. Gross floor space of proposed works 248 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18441
8 May 2017N/a
for the provision of a serviced dwelling, a domestic garage/shed, and a proprietary effluent treatment system together with all associated facilities above. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 248 sqm.)
Permission · Galway County Council, 17640
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 Cahernagormuck.
Recorded monuments
- GA105-038 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 45m) defined by traces of a bank from SW to WNW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Field boundaries border the monument at NNW and from SSE to SW. Two hollows within the interior may be the result of quarrying. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 February 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cahernagormuck.
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 Cahernagormuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cahernagormuck · Cathair na gCormac
- Area
- 336,858 m² (33.69 ha, 83.24 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, Ardnadoman West, Caherlavine, Cloonoo East, Tullagh Lower
- Placenames
- Cahernagormuck 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.